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She listened with pensive indifference to the oft-repeated story of how he had routed the "insufferable cad," encouraged by the support of champagne and the solicited approval of two eye-witnesses. She could not repress the mixed feelings of scorn, shame, and pity, as she surveyed the array of men who so mercilessly flayed the healthy, fair-faced young man with the gentle strength.
While the Romans were assailing Veii and making other conquests among the neighboring cities, a new people had come into Central Italy, a fair-faced, light-haired, great-bodied tribe of barbarians, fierce in aspect, warlike in character, the first contingent of that great invasion from the north which, centuries afterwards, was to overthrow the empire of Rome.
Little child-dreams floated through her mind that the silver-faced moon would hang there above and light the world forever, for the moon was the soul of the god Purusha whose sacrificed body had created the world, and that she would ride forever in the arms of this fair-faced god, and that they were both of one caste, the caste that had as mark the sweet pain in the heart.
He was a large, plain, fair-faced Moravian preacher, turned physician. He was an honest man, but vain of he knew not what. He was once sitting where Sarratt was playing a game at chess without seeing the board; and after remaining for some time absorbed in silent wonder, he turned suddenly to me and said, 'Do you know, Mr.
Where are they all now, Dalibard, Susan, and her fair-faced husband, where? Vernon is in his grave, but one son of many left! Gabriel Varney lives, it is true, and I! But that gold, yea, in our hands there was a curse on it! Walter Ardworth had his legacy. His nature was gay; if disgraced in his profession, he found men to pity and praise him, Fools of Party like himself.
It was not unlike that which had been erected at Devlen Castle when Myles had first jousted as belted knight here were the same raised seat for the King, the tapestries, the hangings, the fluttering pennons, and the royal standard floating above; only here were no fair-faced ladies looking down upon him, but instead, stern-browed Lords and knights in armor and squires, and here were no merry laughing and buzz of talk and flutter of fans and kerchiefs, but all was very quiet and serious.
She might have passed for Asher's sister, for she had a certain erect bearing and strong resemblance of feature. All single women were called old maids at twenty-five in those days. Else this fair-faced woman, with clear gray eyes and pink cheeks, and scarce a hint of white in her abundant brown hair, would not have been considered in the then ridiculed class.
Yes, and at these times there would include itself in his castle-building the figure of a young, fresh, fair-faced maiden of the mercantile or other rich grade of society, a woman who could both play and sing.
Through Iberville's mind there ran a hundred incidents of his life, one chasing upon the other without sequence phantasmagoria out of the scene house of memory: The light upon the arms of De Tracy's soldiers when they marched up Mountain Street many years before The frozen figure of a man standing upright in the plains A procession of canoes winding down past Two Mountains, the wild chant of the Indians joining with the romantic songs of the voyageurs A girl flashing upon the drawn swords of two lads King Louis giving his hand to one of these lads to kiss A lady of the Court for whom he might easily have torn his soul to rags, but for a fair-faced English girl, ever like a delicate medallion in his eye A fight with the English in the Spaniards' country His father blessing him as he went forth to France A dark figure taking a hundred shapes, and yet always meaning the same as when he Iberville said over the governor's table in New York, "Foolish boy!"
"Why do you come back again?" cried she, in accents soft as milk, yet bitter as gall. "Why do you cross my threshold, you false witch, when there is nothing more to blight and blast? Did you think I should not know you, that you dared to come? I should know you among all the fair-faced fiends in hell." "Mercy, mercy, Mrs.
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