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The moment he looked into her restless, remarkably brilliant black eyes, he catalogued her as cold and repellent. "One of the swift-eyed kind," he thought; "heart as hard as her head. No blood in her but smart. Smart!" He relied, without question, on his ability to "size up" people at first glance.
'D n your protection, cried the leader of the press-gang; 'come and serve his Majesty, that's better than catching whales. 'Is it though? said the specksioneer, with a motion of his hand, which the swift-eyed sailor opposed to him saw and interpreted rightly. 'Thou wilt, wilt thou? Close with him, Jack; and ware the cutlass.
This man had yellow hair, waving down over his shoulders; he was fair of hue, with a knot on his nose, which was somewhat turned up at the tip, with very fine eyes blue-eyed and swift-eyed, and with a glance somewhat restless, broad-browed and full-cheeked; he had his hair cut across his forehead. He was well grown as to breadth of shoulders and depth of chest.
When Oliver went to school in the town and tore his clothes, and rolled in mud and punched other boys' heads, Marmaduke remained at home under the educational charge of a governess. Oliver, lean and lanky and swift-eyed, swaggered through the streets unattended from the first day they sent him to a neighbouring kindergarten.
'D n your protection, cried the leader of the press-gang; 'come and serve his Majesty, that's better than catching whales. 'Is it though? said the specksioneer, with a motion of his hand, which the swift-eyed sailor opposed to him saw and interpreted rightly. 'Thou wilt, wilt thou? Close with him, Jack; and ware the cutlass.
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