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The man was rough in appearance and illiterate in speech, but his manner impressed Harry in an extraordinary manner. It was direct and wonderfully convincing. The boy recognized at once a mind that would steer straight through things toward its goal. "My name is Harry Kenton," he said politely. "I'm from Kentucky, and my father used to be a colonel in the army."
The negro servants about the hotel were all fond of him, though his manner towards them was that of a fiery and enthusiastic young potentate, brooking no delay or interference. His beauty and his high-handed way impressed them as being the belongings of one favoured by fortune and worthy of admiration and respect. "He's a D'Willoughby out and out," said his father's negro, Tip.
"You will not let this this weigh upon you, trouble you?" He was silent for a moment, his lips working; but the kiss she had impressed upon him strengthened and nerved him. "God bless you, Celia!" he murmured, very quietly. "Go now! One moment is the Marquess dying?" "No," she said, with a dry little sob. "He is very bad, has been dreadfully injured, but he may recover."
But it doesn't matter. We hadn't anything better to offer him than we've given, and I don't know why I should have been impressed by that. A man is what he is, isn't he? Not what his father is. He isn't your brother is he? I was over at the church when you arrived and didn't hear the introductions. I didn't even get your name."
For several hours they slept, and then the Spaniard awoke them with the information that the tiger was coming! Up they sprang, as a matter of course, and with considerable noise too, but Bunco soon impressed them with the necessity of being quiet. The Spaniard had only two guns, one of which he handed to Will Osten. The seamen were of necessity left to be spectators.
Only the present mattered, and it was a dark one. He might have fought Ennar to a standstill, but in the eyes of the horsemen he had also been beaten, and he had not impressed them as he had hoped.
But I presume the traditional "match-makers" did their duty, if the young men were sufficiently impressed by the girls' outfits to commission these professional proposers to lay their hearts and hands at the feet of the parents on the following day. They certainly could not have been hopelessly bewitched by any beauty which was on show.
He was gentlemanly to a degree that impressed her more than anything had impressed her in her life. And all the proud and aristocratic instinct that was at the base of her character sprang up and seized on his gentlemanliness like a famished animal seizing on food. "The last time I saw you," said Mr. Scales, in a new tone, "you said you were never in the shop." "What? Yesterday? Did I?"
Under the bright starry sky he reviewed them, divided them into bands, gave to each a fitting leader, and impressed upon them the importance of the orders they were to obey.
But what most impressed the Spaniards was the swarm of people who thronged every street, canal, and roof, and filled every window and doorway.
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