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Far down the steep-banked Devonshire lane he heard the husky hoot of the carrier's horn. There was a ghost of melody in it, as it might have been the wind in a gin-bottle essaying to sing, "It's a way we have in the Army." Stalky smiled a tight-lipped smile, and at extreme range opened fire: the old horse half wheeled in the shafts. "Where he gwaine tu?" hiccoughed Rabbits-Eggs.
My mother managed everything, leading an out-of-door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin. It was the face of a Roman mother, tight-lipped, brown-eyed, and fierce. You may understand the kind of woman she was from the hands she employed on the farm. They were smugglers and night-malefactors to a man and she liked that.
He held out his hand, still leaning against the mantelpiece. His eyes, blue and very steady, looked straight into Nap's. So for a second or two he held him while Nap, tight-lipped, uncompromising, looked straight back. Then, "Good-night," Lucas said again gravely, and let him go. Yet for an instant longer Nap lingered as one on the verge of speech. But nothing came of it.
Then suddenly Grace seemed galvanized to action, She leaned toward Mollie, grasping the steering wheel of the motionless car frantically. "For heaven's sake, Mollie, get out of the way! Start the car!" she screamed. "I can't!" Mollie answered, tight-lipped. "Something's wrong. The motor's dead."
He heard a cry, he saw a horse rear straight up through the dust; there was a gleam of yellow, a flash of a falling lance, a groan. Then, as he galloped on, pale and tight-lipped, a riderless horse thundered along behind him, mane tossing in the whirling dust.
Commission or no commission, they would march; and in the end, march they did a considerable troop to the up-river country, with the tall, young, eloquent man at their head. News reached the Governor at Jamestown that they were marching. In a tight-lipped rage he issued a proclamation and sent it after them.
"But his fatal beauty was too much for her. You got to hand it to him for his looks, boys," he added, calling general attention to the tight-lipped Sam in his apron. "This here guy, Apollo, didn't have much on our Sam." A highly coloured version of the story followed. In it Big Jack and his mates figured merely as disinterested onlookers. The teller, stimulated by applause, surpassed himself.
Wilding, and he permitted himself that tight-lipped smile that gave his face so wicked a look. "And why not?" asked Grey, stupidly unsuspicious. "Because I had thought you might have concluded otherwise from your own experience at Bridport this morning." Grey got angrily to his feet, rage and shame flushing his face, and it needed Ferguson and the Duke to restore him to some semblance of calm.
Many of them had come from Paris, but they had never seen such swordsmanship before. Whoever the hunter might be they saw that he was the master swordsman of them all. They addressed low cries of warning to Boucher: "Have a care!" "Have a care!" "Save your strength!" they said. But de Galisonnière stood, tight-lipped and silent.
It did not, however, cause him to linger at turning his horse into the stable and shutting the door upon him. When he passed the cabin window he glanced anxiously in and saw dimly through the half-frosted glass that Miss Bridger was sitting against the wall by the table, tight-lipped and watchful. He hurried to the door and pushed it open.
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