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She led them into a little sitting-room, where on a couch underneath a window Roy Beeman lay. He was wide awake and smiling, but haggard. He lay partly covered with a blanket. His gray shirt was open at the neck, disclosing bandages. "Mornin' girls," he drawled. "Shore is good of you, now, comin' down." Helen stood beside him, bent over him, in her earnestness, as she greeted him.
The swelling in the hand is gone down, and of two of the fingers somewhat abated, but the middle finger is still twice its natural size, so that I write with difficulty. This has been a very rough attack, but though I am much weakened by it, and look sickly and haggard, yet I am not out of heart. Such a bout; such a 'periless buffetting' was enough to have hurt the health of a strong man.
All his haggard face was transfigured with a ghastly triumph as he opened a small leathern case that hung round his neck, and held up before us two locks of hair.
The bookseller slowly opened his door, and was immensely astonished to see a little country lad, thin and haggard, with wild gleaming eyes, rush at him with a demand for Thomson's 'Seasons. Was there ever such a customer seen at Stamford?
All there was blank as the moon. The haggard cheeks and anxious eyes of the other told that he had already drunk deep of the bitter waters of life. Blob was staring at Kit with the solemn interest of a babe. Then he pointed a finger. "Boy!" he bleated. "Call me 'sir'!" ordered Kit imperiously. "And take your hands out of your pockets when you talk to me."
Two or three times during the night she fell into a restless sleep, but always started up with a wild look of agony in her face. Day or night she seemed to have no peace, and by the time they reached Philadelphia she had become so haggard and worn as to appear fully ten years older than when she started.
Throughout the past months, when he dreamed of her, when he thought of her, he bowed himself before her, he raised not his eyes to hers. But now their looks met, and his countenance of a haggard and ravaged beauty did not change before her still regard.
Amongst the crowd that pressed forward to look at that unfortunate wuz a bent, haggard form that I thought I recognized. But if it wuz a father watching and waiting in dretful hope and still more dretful fear for the best beloved, I couldn't tell, for the crowd pressed forward and he disappeared almost before I saw him.
The boy looked so haggard, his face so filled with despair, that Dud was touched in spite of himself. "Why in Mexico didn't you give that bird a pill outa the gun?" he asked. "I don't know. I'm no good," Bob wailed. "You said it right that time. I'll be doggoned if I ever saw such a thing as a fellow lettin' another guy walk off with his wife when he ain't been married hardly two hours yet.
Her life had hardly begun and here she lay murdered mangled, tortured to death! It was morning when he rose up and came down into the kitchen haggard and ashen gray, reeling and dazed. More of the neighbors had come in, and they stared at him in silence as he sank down upon a chair by the table and buried his face in his arms.
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