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You've had a hard day with the abscessed tooth, the dope the dentist gave you, and other things. I don't wonder that you lost your head, went a little crazy, perhaps " The detective's sinister implication seemed to make no impression at all upon the woman with the scarred face. "I asked you " she gasped, her single eye glaring at him, "who dared say Nita burned me?"
She was a square, short woman, dressed in soiled and tattered clothes, scarred and pitted with small-pox, and blind of an eye. She stepped hurriedly into the little enclosure, and peered from a distance of a few yards into the room where I was sitting.
Short and thick-set, he had a bullet head, a bull's neck, and face and hands scarred and dented by more than a quarter of a century of toil. By calling he was a fitter, and he had come to submit a difficulty which had just arisen in the piecing together of a reaping machine. But, his employer, who was still angrily thinking of over-numerous families, did not give him time to explain his purpose.
"When my soul boiled within me when 'to die' Was all my prayer and death was sweetness, yea, Had they but stoned me like a dog, I'd blessed them; Then no man rose against me but when time Brought its slow comfort when my wounds were scarred All my griefs mellow'd, and remorse itself Judged my self-penance mightier than my sins, Thebes thrust me from her breast, and they, my sons, My blood, mine offspring, from their father shrunk: A word of theirs had saved me one small word They said it not and lo! the wandering beggar!"
This the Germans may have discovered, or perhaps it was only that the corner presented a tempting target, for they shelled to destruction everything within a hundred yards. The howitzers were rapidly put out of action though not destroyed, and a small orchard just behind them was ploughed, riven, and scarred with high explosive and shrapnel.
The full springs, overflowing on the hill-side, melted their way through the field of white in winding channels; and along their course the grass was green even in the dead of winter. But the sad shepherd walked far above the friendly valley, in a region where ridges of gray rock welted and scarred the back of the earth, like wounds of half-forgotten strife and battles long ago.
A younger among them, without wife or goods, drew his gaunt horse back upon its scarred haunches and saluted the soldier. "Greeting, bearer of many arms!" he said, and then addressed a near-by companion as if he were rods away. "Behold leaden-toed Egypt, cumbered with defense!
Malipieri set his elbows on the table, leaned his bearded chin upon his scarred knuckles and looked at her. He wondered whether in her innocence she even faintly guessed what people would think of her, if they knew that she had spent a night in his rooms. He had no experience at all of young girls, and he wondered whether there were many like Sabina. He thought it unlikely.
Then a hush fell, and presently in the stillness came riding the great Personages who stand in heaven about the Throne; first, the Queen Mother herself, glorious within and without, moving in clothing of wrought gold, high above all others; then, the great Princes of the Blood Royal, who are admitted to drink of the King's own Cup, and sit beside Him on their thrones, Peter and Paul and the rest, with rugged faces and scarred hands; and with them great mitred figures, Linus, Cletus and Clement, with their companions.
"Ranaway, negro boy Harper has a scar on one of his hips in the form of a G." Hon. Ambrose H. Sevier Senator, in Congress, from Arkansas in the "Vicksburg Register", of Oct. 18. "Ranaway, Bob, a slave has a scar across his breast, another on the right side of his head his back is much scarred with the whip." Mr. R.A. Greene, Milledgeville, Georgia, in the "Macon Messenger" July 27, 1837.
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