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The door opened, and, handcuffed to a stalwart officer, in slunk Jean of the many names. Mazi sprang to her feet, her face livid. She would have leaped at the prisoner, but the colonel held her back. But he could not hold back the flood of voluble French that poured from her lips. "Liar! Dog!" she hissed at him. "And so you have deceived me as you deceived others!
His hair the hood had fallen back stood on end, his face and tightened lips were livid, his eyes rolled wildly. "Jim!" he said hoarsely. "Jim!" He left the hut as abruptly as he had entered it. "He has gone to look at the mouth of the tunnel," whispered Roldan. "What fools we were not to cover it up again.
She stood before him, pillar-like, her two hands clenched against her sides. Her lips were quite livid. They moved soundlessly for several seconds before she spoke. "I was waiting for the express." Her voice was flat and emotionless. It sounded almost as if she were talking in her sleep. And strangely it was that that shocked Scott even more than her appearance.
And with what infinite tenderness the stranger supported the light form; with what wistful interest he contemplated the livid young face. And so at an easy pace they reached the hill hut.
Had Brande's heart stopped beating, his face could not have become more distorted and livid. He moved close to me, and, glaring into my eyes, hissed out: "You altered my formula?" "I did," I answered recklessly. "I multiplied your figures by ten where they struck me as insufficient." "When?" I strode closer still to him and looked him straight in the eyes while I spoke.
And whilst we prayed the wind rose outside, and a storm grew in the bosom of the night that had been so fair and tranquil. The lightning flashed and illumined the interior of that hut with a vividness as of broad daylight, throwing into livid relief the arrow-pierced St. Sebastian in the niche and the ghastly, grinning skull upon the hermit's pulpit.
Then he looked sharply at Donald. Under the thick tan the boy could see him pale. His lips became livid. "Donald, lad, you are not hurt?" he cried, motioning to the bear that lay stretched on the grass. "No, Sandy, not a bit. Truly I'm not. See! Isn't he a big one?" "He is many a size too big for a boy like you to be fighting alone. I was a blind idiot to leave you behind me.
"Chop that kind of talk with me, you !" interrupted Belding. He had always been profane, and now he certainly did not choose his language. Chase turned livid, gasped, and seemed about to give way to fury. But something about Belding evidently exerted a powerful quieting influence. "If you talk sense I'll listen," went on Belding. Belding was frankly curious.
"Gone!" said Rachel, faintly. "Where?" "I do not know. I went up to his rooms. All his things were still there." "Where is he now?" "I do not know." The Bishop looked at her compassionately. She had been a long time forgiving him. While she hesitated he had said to her, "Where is he now?" and she had not understood. Her face became pinched and livid. She understood now, after the event.
A sort of religious terror is diffused by the hidden idols divined in the temple behind us; by the mumbled prayers, confusedly heard; above all, by the horrible heads in lacquered wood, representing foxes, which, as they pass, hide human faces hideous livid masks.
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