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At the further end of the dungeon, near the door, under the open wicket, a veteran with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, with a rough and swarthy face, a bald head, and long gray mustachios, is seated on a chair. He ought never to lose sight of the condemned. "It is very cold here! and yet my eyes burn; and then I am thirsty always thirsty," said Calabash, at the end of a few moments.
Campion, who wears mustachios, and who comes in his cab twice or thrice in a week; and whose West End offices are in Curzon Street, Mayfair, where Mrs. Campion entertains the nobility and gentry to whom her husband lends money. There, and on his glazed cards, he is Mr.
Heavy guns, instead of bales of goods, were dragged through the streets by dray horses, and muskets, cutlasses, and boarding pikes met the eye at every turn. Fierce-looking men with juvenile mustachios jostled each other in the streets, and even the dapper clerks and peaceable artisans swore deeper oaths and assumed more swaggering airs.
Critics and art enthusiasts were constantly running to him with this and that suggestion in regard to this and that artist, but he only lifted his sophisticated eyebrows, curled his superior mustachios, pulled at his highly artistic goatee, and exclaimed: "Ah!" or "So?" "Where are your artists?" he would ask. "I look and look.
A ragged minstrel, or jongleur, with an immense beard and mustachios, was tuning, with no inconsiderable skill, a lute which had accompanied him in all his wanderings and suddenly changing its notes into a wild and warlike melody, he commenced in a loud and deep voice the following song: The Praise of the Grand Company.
Master Mervale had risen from his bath almost clean-shaven; only one sodden half of his mustachios clung to his upper lip, and as he rubbed the water from his eyes, this remaining half also fell away from the boy's face. "Oh, splendor of God!" groaned the marquis. He splashed noisily into the water. "O Kate, Kate!" he cried, his arms about Master Mervale. "Oh, blind, blind, blind!
Judging from the beards and mustachios which now abounded, this great result was near at hand. With the snub nose which is the characteristic of the millionaires, these appendages produce a pleasing effect.
And as we were conversing behold, up came our companion, this third Kalandar, and saluted us saying: "I am a stranger!" And we answered: "We too be strangers!" Then we three walked on and together till darkness overtook us and Destiny crave us to your house. Such, then, is the cause of the shaving of my beard and mustachios and eyebrows; and the manner of my losing my right eye.
He was much the same in face as when I had left him, but considerably thinner in person. His head was covered with a white nightcap, and he snored with emphasis. The professor of music was a very small man, with mustachios: his mouth was wide open; and one would have thought that he was in the full execution of a bravura.
Old-Homesickness The Ideal and the Real A beautiful but perilous woman with a past The Garden of Eden a Montreal ice-palace Confused mountain of family luggage Poplars for lances Miraculous crimson comforters Rivers of human gore Curling mustachios and nothing to do Odd behavior of grown people Venus, the populace, and the MacDaniels The happiness to die in Paris Lived alone with her constellations "O'Brien's Belt" A hotel of peregrinations Sitting up late Attempted assassination My murderer An old passion reawakened Italian shells and mediaeval sea- anemones If you were in the Garden of Eden An umbrella full of napoleons Was Byron an Esquimau?
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