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If you will get the key, and take me out, I will sleep well; then in the morning, before the old one-eyed lunatic is up, you can come and turn the key in the lock again. Nobody will be the wiser." "And you are not thinking of escaping?" I said. "I have not even the faintest wish to escape," he replied. "You could not escape if you did," I said, "for the room would be locked, of course.
Indeed, a large band of these wretches, who had emerged like wolves from their lairs in the lowest quarters of the great city, catching sight of the gold chain Sir Geoffrey wore, ran up with drawn daggers to kill and rob them. Seeing them come Grey Dick slipped the black bow from its case and sent an arrow singing through the heart of the one-eyed villain who captained them.
The colour fled from Philip's cheek, but he spoke not. For a minute or two there was a silence. The one-eyed visitor looked round him, and turning from the buffets he fixed his eyes on the form of Amine, who stood before him; at last the silence was broken by a sort of giggle on the part of the stranger, which ended in "Philip Vanderdecken he! he! Philip Vanderdecken, you don't know me?"
A joyous ray of the rising sun entered through her window and touched her face. At the same time with the sun, she beheld at that window an object which frightened her, the unfortunate face of Quasimodo. She involuntarily closed her eyes again, but in vain; she fancied that she still saw through the rosy lids that gnome's mask, one-eyed and gap-toothed.
It's a good thing you're kindhearted so we all can enjoy her when you bring her over," Manteca murmured. "That's right, Pancracio, bring one-eyed Maria Antonia. We're all getting pretty cold around here," Meco shouted from a distance. The crowd broke into peals of laughter. Pancracio and Manteca vied with each other in calling forth oaths and obscenity. "Villa is coming!"
On festa-days she and her mother draw their hoods so low and their muffling handkerchiefs so high that the costume is as good as a yashmak, and in passing through the streets these one-eyed women seem like an importation from the "Arabian Nights."
He ran quickly, but Sylvestre Ker ran still faster, and arrived the first by the girl, so that he received the shock of the ram's butting while protecting her with his body. The injury was not very great, only his right eye was touched by the curved end of one of the horns when the ram raised his head, and thus Sylvestre Ker became one-eyed.
Everybody had something to say, and some advice to give. Even old "One-eyed Lewston" pushed his way up to Harry, and exclaimed: "Oh, Mah'sr Harry! Ef you want to grease her, I got some hog's-lard up dar on dat shelf." But Harry soon thought he found where the fault lay, and, adjusting a screw or two, he tried the key again. This time his call was answered.
The one-eyed Moor literally smiled upon it. As his eye was single and his body therefore full of light, he saw the beauty of the notion at once. Had it been full of food instead, we may charitably suppose he would not have remarked: "A pity we did not feed him up better". For the suggestion concerned Moussa Isa and food Moussa Isa as food, in point of fact.
One or two tall bushmen bowed their heads as if they had to, and One-eyed Bogan, with the blood washed from his face, stood with his hat off, glaring round to see if he could catch anyone sniggering. Mitchell, the shearer, said afterwards that the whole business made him feel for the moment like he felt sometimes in the days when he used to feel things.
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