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"He has not come!" he cried for the twentieth time. "He has not come!" He moved on, and Reese Beaudin ten feet away turned and smiled at Joe Delesse with triumph in his eyes. He moved nearer. "Did I not tell you he would not find in me that narrow-shouldered, smooth-faced stripling of five years ago?" he asked. "N'est-ce pas, friend Delesse?" The face of Joe Delesse was heavy with a somber fear.
"Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes?" "That's Captain L , the owner of the ship he's one of the main bosses." In the course of time I brought up on the starboard side of the pilot-house and found a sextant lying on a bench. Now, I said, they "take the sun" through this thing; I should think I might see that vessel through it.
"Say I met a young man down-stairs, goin' out." "Mr. Turl probably. He just left me. A neat-looking, smooth-faced young man, smartly dressed." "That's him. What name did you say?" "Turl." "Never heard the name. But I've seen that young fellow somewhere. It's funny: as I looked round at 'im just now, it seemed to me all at wunst as if I'd met that same young man in that same place a long time ago.
As the banished man passed out, I sat down on the seat he quitted. "It is ill luck to sit in a traitor's chair," said a well-meaning man at my elbow; but I smiled and kept my seat. "Who may that smooth-faced stranger be? and how comes it that he is here?" I heard some of the bystanders ask, referring, of course, to my clean-shaven visage.
Directions were given for the business being looked into; and Straw, and Fendall, and me, we were all in it. 'When you received your instructions, said we, 'you went away, and held a sort of Cabinet Council together! The smooth-faced officer coaxingly replied, 'Ye-es. Just so. We turned it over among ourselves a good deal.
Slender of make was the new-comer, not big nor tall of stature. Ralph went up to him hastily, and merrily put his hand on his shoulder, and kissed him, saying: "The kiss of peace in the wilderness to thee!" And he found him smooth-faced and sweet-breathed.
Why wuz it that Sister Irene Filkins wuz turned out of the meetin' house and the man who wuz the first cause of her goin' astray kep in the handsome, smooth-faced hypocrite? it wuz because he wuz rich as a Jew, and jest plastered over the consciences of them that tried him with his fine speeches and his money." "Fixed over the meetin' house there in Zoar, built a new steeple, a towerin' one.
Light haired, smooth-faced, quite tall and dressed in dark blue with a cravat, sir, that looked like cerise but may have been " "For heaven's sake, Hobbs, let up!" cried Robin, throwing up his hands. "Yes, sir; certainly, sir. Did I mention that he wears a straw 'at with a crimson band on it? Well, if I didn't, he does. Hincidentally, they seemed greatly pleased to see each other.
Krill, who was as plump and smiling and smooth-faced and severe as ever, bowed and rubbed her white hands together. At a sign from Maud, Matilda gathered up the fancy work and went out of the room with many backward glances. These were mostly indignant, for she was angry at Hurd's deception. "Do you wish my daughter to stay?" asked Mrs. Krill, smoothly.
Old men with weather-beaten faces and untrimmed beards were there, young men with the marks that dissipation and passion indelibly stamp, awkward, gawky youths unconsciously aping their elders, smooth-faced youngsters in outgrown garments; all ages and conditions of the human frontier male were there but in that zone not a single woman.
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