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The watchful Tsamanni considered that the time had come to buy her for his lord as he had been bidden. "Three hundred," he said curtly, to make an end of matters, and "Four hundred," instantly piped a shrill voice behind him. He spun round in his amazement and met the leering face of Ayoub.
She was approached by the bridegroom, who with an air of leering gallantry offered her his assistance in alighting. At this moment swarms of gadflies rested on the flanks of the Limousin steed, and the spirited beast, stung to madness by the flies, reared, plunged, and broke away in a gallop, scattering the spectators to right and left, and flying like the wind along the river-bank.
Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange, shapeless man who lived at his father's hotel had been on the point of talking. The young man looked at the hideous, leering face staring about the hotel dining room and was consumed with curiosity. Something he saw lurking in the staring eyes told him that the man who had nothing to say to others had nevertheless something to say to him.
Through the luminous flame-veil the capering savages took on shapes the most weird and grotesque; and when I had a glimpse of the dead men's row, each hideous face in it seemed to wear a grin of leering triumph. Thus far there had been never a puff of wind to fan the blaze.
Perhaps it was her bright kind eyes, which seemed to mirror the tranquillity of forests. . . . "You gentry are always talking of love," she marveled. "Oh," he said, with acerbity, "oh, I don't doubt that any number of beef-gorging squires and leering, long-legged Oxford dandies " He broke off here, and laughed contemptuously. "Well, you are beautiful, and they have eyes as keen as mine.
The Very Young Man thought he could reach it, but his opponent's great arms were around him now and held him too tightly. He tried to pull himself loose, but could not. Then he rolled partly over again, and met Targo's eyes above, leering triumphantly down at him. He looked away and wrenched his right arm free. Across the room he could see the girl still crouching in the corner.
'Ay, but they never came to Chipnam, the fellow answered, leering at him with drunken wisdom. 'D'you see that, master? 'Which way, then? Soane cried impatiently. 'Which way did they go? But the man only lurched a step nearer. 'That's telling! he said with a beery smile. 'You want to be as wise as I be! Jeremy, the guard, seized him by the collar and shook him. 'You drunken fool! he said.
I daresay, upon their side, they grudged me extremely the fine company in which I had arrived; and altogether I had soon fallen behind, and stepped stiffly in the rear of all that merriment with my own thoughts. From these I was recalled by one of the officers, Lieutenant Hector Duncansby, a gawky, leering Highland boy, asking if my name was not "Palfour."
Indeed I once heard her name mentioned, not as Mrs. Winwood, but as "Captain Winwood's wife," with an expression of voice that made me burn to plant my fist in the leering face of the fellow who spoke some low-born dog, I'll warrant, who had paid high for his commission.
It was one of those journals, now barely credible, dedicated to the putrid of the upper circle, wherein initials raised sewer-lamps, and Asmodeus lifted a roof, leering hideously. Thousands detested it, and fattened their crops on it. Domesticated beasts of superior habits to the common will indulge themselves with a luxurious roll in carrion, for a revival of their original instincts.
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