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He had knelt down beside her bed, that was it. And she felt upon her palm, the pressure of his lips, and his unshaven cheek, and on her wrist, a warm wetness that must be tears. Why was he crying? What had happened? She must try to think. It was very hard. She didn't want to think, but she must. She must begin with something she knew. She knew who she was. She was Rose Rodney's Rose.
They made an odd group in that cheerful place, where the new-lit fire was crackling in the big grate the wet undignified form of Dickson, unshaven of cheek and chin and disreputable in garb; the shrouded figure of Cousin Eugenie, who had sunk into the arm-chair and closed her eyes; the slim girl, into whose face the weather had whipped a glow like blossom; and the hostess, with her petticoats kilted and an ancient mutch on her head.
"Hush up, will ye!" whispered the other, glancing around pale under his unshaven beard as if he feared Eugene might yet be there. The Hautville men, however, hearing nothing, and saying nothing about the matter to each other, had always, among themselves, a subtle exchange of uneasy thought concerning it.
I'll come back with you to-morrow." "Let me send for Dr. Dawney, Uncle?" "No no! Plenty of him when I get home. Very good young fellow, as doctors go, but I can't stand his puddin's slops and puddin's, and all that trumpery medicine on the top. Send me Dominique, my dear I'll put myself to rights a bit!" He fingered his unshaven cheek, and clutched the gown together on his chest.
Exhausted, bespattered, in rags, they were dolefully crouched around their meagre green-wood fires; the poor creatures were to be pitied. Underneath their misshapen caps they all showed yellow, wrinkled, and unshaven faces. The bitter, cold wind that swept over the plain made their thin shoulders, stooping from fatigue, shiver, and their shoulder- blades protruded under their faded capes.
"I plead guilty, sir," said Frank, without a tremor. He had been two full days in the cells by now, and it had not improved his appearance. He was still deeply sunburned, but he was a little pale under the eyes, and he was unshaven. He had also deliberately rumpled his hair and pulled his clothes to make them look as untidy as possible.
Their evident haste caused Ramon to note their passing with some interest. Yet they had thundered past him so fast, and in such a cloud of dust, that he could not see them clearly. Waring, gaunt as a wolf, unshaven, his hat rimmed with white dust, pulled up in front of the weathered saloon in the town of Criswell on the edge of the desert. He dismounted and stepped round the hitching-rail.
For, seeking to emulate those whom he so unstintedly admired, Bud Lee and Carson and the rest of the hard-handed, quick-eyed men in the service of the ranch, Hampton was no longer the careless, frankly inefficient youth who had escorted his guests here. He went for days at a time unshaven, having other matters to think of; he came to the table bringing with him the aroma of the stables.
And it was the Indian summer of the year; when the air is spicy with the smoke of burning leaves and the mountains are lost in the haze; when the unshaven cornfields are dotted with yellow pumpkins and under low-branched trees the apples lie in heaps; when the leaves are aflame and the round sun shines pink through opalescent clouds. "Ain't it a hummer of a day?"
He was a sorry sight indeed, unshaven, unkempt, dark circles under his eyes, clothes torn. "Helene! You here in America!" he cried in French, staring at her. "Yes, Auguste," she replied quite simply, "I am here." He would have come towards her, but there was a note in her voice which arrested him. "And Monsieur le Vicomte Henri?" he said. I found myself listening tensely for the answer.
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