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The newcomer was bronzed and burnt, he had light hair, a mustache and a soft blond beard, but he wore trousers and a tunic of white linen. The surprise was mutual. The stranger scanned them closely from head to foot. "Who are you?" cried Guy hoarsely. "Can it be possible that you are an Englishman an Englishman in Harar?" The man paused a moment, and then said quietly: "I am a Greek.
And shabby, undeniably shabby! The shabbiness was a shock. A much-braided officer, trim from the points of his mustache to the points of his shoes, rose to speak to him. The shabbiness was accentuated by the contrast. Possibly the revelation was an easement to the girl's nervousness.
Moreover, since he is slender and you are far from it, I demand that he have two shots to your one, as he will have at least twice as much to kill." Redfield growled out other angry words, which stopped under the cover of his heavy mustache, and then turned abruptly away, leaving Prescott in some doubt as to his personal courage but none at all as to his ill will.
"I thank you, sir," said I, "but more for your obedience to the Prince than for the fashion of your courtesy to me." Yet for all that he answered me never a syllable, but turned his head and played with his mustache till his man-servant brought him another coat.
It was, as it happened, a stroke worthy of the wily Florentine himself; but neither he nor his latest pupil could possibly have estimated its true bearing on events. After dinner Stampoff found him. Delgrado was astounded at first. Stampoff, shorn of his immense mustache, ceased to be a General.
A wiry mustache, yellow with nicotine, alone remained. Great wrinkles lay below the eyes and along the jaw, under a skin stretched like parchment over the bony protuberances of the face. These things established the aspect of old age; but it was the man's expression and manner that gave one the sense of incalculable antiquity.
Near the edge of the table lay three or four apples left by John Spaniard, a tree nurseryman who was Doctor Reefy's friend, and who had slipped the apples out of his pocket as he came in at the door. At middle age Doctor Reefy was tall and awkward. The grey beard he later wore had not yet appeared, but on the upper lip grew a brown mustache.
Just put her on a reach, you know, and she carries it off pretty well " "I know," I nodded. "Well, we mugged up about seven o'clock. There was a good deal of canned stuff in the galley, and Björnsen wasn't a bad hand with a kettle a thoroughgoing Square-head he was tall and lean and yellow-haired, with little fat, round cheeks and a white mustache. Not a bad chap at all.
"I haven't the slightest idea; women are so funny," said the Terror with a sage air. Sir James pulled at his mustache. Then the compulsion to have some one's opinion of his chances, even if it was only a small boy's, came on him strongly; and he said: "I wish I knew what to do. As it is we're very good friends; and if I asked her to marry me, I might spoil that."
The upper lip was inordinately full, as though swollen by a blow or a toothache; and the smile, the peaked eyebrows, and the small, strong eyes were quaintly and almost comically evil in expression. Beautiful white hair hung straight all round his head, like a saint's, and fell in a single curl upon the tippet. His beard and mustache were the pink of venerable sweetness.
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