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Splendid bronzed fellows they were, dark brick-dust colour, wrapped in long white cloaks, with the hood of an under garment pulled down over their faces: sometimes a white cloth swathed their heads; their chins were hidden in soft folds which reached up to their hawk-eyes, veiling the face, like true sons of the desert, as a protection against sun and wind.
Hammy blinked eyes that were already growing sleepy, and sucked the moustache of white from his upper-lip with relish, remarking: "I dwinked it all, and my tummy never shut. Now tell me what are ve confequences?" "A mother without a son, for one thing." The keen, hawk-eyes were gentle.
He put his hand on Scott's shoulder as they passed through the barrier. "What's the matter with you, my lad?" he said. Scott glanced up at him a swift, surprised glance. "With me? Nothing. I am as usual." Eustace's hawk-eyes scanned him closely. "I've never seen you look worse," he said. Scott raised his shoulder slightly under his hand, and said nothing.
Doan turned his thin impassive face with the hawk-eyes toward young Packard. "Who do you happen to be?" he asked coolly. "I'm Steve Packard from Ranch Number Ten. And I've got a herd of steers out here that's been waiting for you some time now." "Oh, yes," said Doan, still very cool. "Got my wire, didn't you, saying that I was unavoidably detained?" "I did not!" snapped Steve. "Detained by what?
But she called on the English to see in her the emblem of England, captive yet, unconquered, and to break her fetters and the worse fetters of every woman in England who was the toy and slave of the brutal invaders; and so fierce a triumph sparkled from her wild hawk-eyes that the Englishmen looked up to her weird beauty as to that of an inspired saint; and when the Normans came on to the assault there stood on a grassy mound behind the English fort a figure clothed in sackcloth, barefooted and bareheaded, with fetters shining on waist, and wrist, and ankle, her long black locks streaming in the wind, her long white arms stretched crosswise toward heaven, in imitation of Moses of old above the battle with Amalek; invoking St.
So they went, all three of them, and came from off the meadow on to the garden-slopes, and at the entry thereof was come Atra to meet them; she was clad all in black, a tall, slim woman, with the grace of the willow-bough in the wind, with dark plenteous hair and grey hawk-eyes; her skin privet-white, with but little red in her cheeks. She also greeted Birdalone kindly, but sadly withal.
He knew how futile would be any attempt to escape under the cold hawk-eyes of the man with the broken nose. As the gig put off from the sloop's side, the boy leaned dejectedly against the rail. Pharaoh Daggs slouched up to him. "Ah there, young 'un," said he with cynical jocularity, "just thinkin' o' leavin' us, were ye, when the old man took the gimp out o' ye?"
"Colonel, you're a thundering bad judge of drunkards, from the Bench's point of view, but you'd be a damned good special pleader for a client in need of all the excuses that could be trumped up for him." "We all have something we'd like to have an excuse for, Mr. Mayor." The keen hawk-eyes held a twinkle in reserve.
"The desert will be so near," evaded the girl. "Half-an-hour's ride at the most, so so Ben Kelham told me, and there you see the desert, miles upon miles of it stretching right away like the sea." The hawk-eyes flashed across the girl's face, taking in the forced indifference of the expression and the light which gleamed far down in the eyes. "I had a letter from Ben this morning.
"I hope you will both have all happiness." "Thanks!" said Eustace. He took the hand, looking at the younger man with keen, hawk-eyes. "We mean to make a bid for it anyway. Dinah is lucky in one thing at least. She will have an ideal brother-in-law." The words were carelessly spoken, but they were not without meaning. Scott flushed slightly; even while for an instant he smiled.
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