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While he read it the boy watched him with the admiration which, in Paris, even the rat-like gamin of the streets pays to distinction such as his. He was a tall man splendidly blonde, and he affected the cloak, the slouch hat, the picturesque amplitude of hair which were once the uniform of the artist.
De Casimir caught the gleam of jewellery, and went hurriedly downstairs. "What are you doing there, my friend?" he asked, and the words were scarcely out of his mouth, when Barlasch extinguished his candle. There followed a dead silence, such as comes when a rodent is disturbed at his work. The two men on the cellar-stairs were conscious of the gaze of the bright, rat-like eyes below.
He must be calm; must pass the insult, smooth the situation and remain employed there. "I I beg pardon," he managed to articulate, with pale lips that trembled. He wiped the beaded sweat from his broad forehead. "Excuse me, Mr. Herzog. I you startled me. What's the trouble? Any complaint to make? If so, I'm here to listen." Herzog's teeth showed in a rat-like grin of malice.
In fact, the other had assumed an expression of the deadliest malice, his teeth were clenched, his lips quivered, and were quite pale; the rat-like eyes sparkled, and he made a half spring, a la rat, towards his adversary, who only laughed.
It is only in this little island of Majorca, surrounded by very deep water and not known to have nurtured any other animal so large in size either in recent or geologic times, that we come upon a Ruminant with horns like a goat's, but with great rat-like front teeth in place of the semicircle of eight little cropping toothlets.
"Well, I heard you was comin' for a new job, an' I thought " "You think entirely too much. Now you get hack to Chelton, and stay there. I may need you." Lem's little, rat-like eyes gleamed. "You'll pay me, won't you?" he asked. "Of course." "Well, I'm a little short now, an' " Sid extended a bill, which the man took quickly. "Now be off," ordered young Wilcox, "and don't ever follow me again."
"I don't blame you if you don't believe it," he stammered, "seeing me like this; but I DO live right near here. Everybody around here knows me, and I guess you've read about me in the papers, too. I'm that is, my name " like one about to take a plunge he drew a short breath, and the rat-like eyes regarded Keep watchfully "my name is Van Warden.
This character he assumed, and no doubt it fitted him better than either the English cobbler or the German doctor; besides, as he said, sham court costume is always the easiest to contrive: but Cherry was by no means prepared to find the Rat-like poet the secret admirer of a daughter of the Serene Highness who owned the jewel. 'Such a monstrous interpolation, quoth Geraldine.
She left him in the reception hall among a concourse of portraits, such as that in the house of the Febrers, and she ran with a light, rat-like trot to the interior rooms to announce this extraordinary visit which disturbed the monastic peace of the palace. Long moments of silence followed.
Having pushed the cot bed away from the wall, she sat down on the floor, Turk fashion. Choosing a spot which would be invisible with the bed in place, she waited till Churn was inclined to walk. Then she began delicately to dig at the plaster with her extemporized tools. Whenever Churn stopped, she stopped also, lest the rat-like noise should reach alert ears in the next room.
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