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And she was bare-headed too, with nothing but a crown of heavy black hair, and a dazzling face, gilded, so to say, by the sun." They had all begun to listen to him, enraptured, full of that passionate admiration for beauty which, in spite of every change, Rome still retains in her heart. "Those beautiful girls of the people are becoming very rare," remarked Morano.
They drifted to him from the road in front of the house. Carefully he looked down from the top of his stack upon three horsemen talking to the bare-headed ranchman whom they had called out from his breakfast. "No, I ain't seen a thing of him. Shot Billy Faulkner, you say? What in time for?" the rancher was innocently asking.
The gondolier touched his hat and said, "It is the ladies who ask for you, Don Ippolito." It was a minute before the door opened, and the priest, bare-headed and blinking in the strong light, came with a stupefied air across the quay to the landing-steps. "Well, Don Ippolito!" cried Mrs.
A procession was formed, headed by the old men, bare-headed; the musicians followed, behind whom walked with solemn step the younger members of the community. This procession, emerging from the western border of the forest, slowly climbed the slopes of the Rocque du Guet, and arriving at the summit bent its way seaward, halting at the edge of the precipitous cliff.
"Then come." She entered the carriage. He followed meekly and sat beside her. Where should they drive? The cabman suggested the coast road to Mentone. She agreed. On the point of starting she observed that her companion was bare-headed. "You've forgotten your hat." She spoke to him as she would have done to a child. "Why bother about hats?" "You'll catch your death of cold. Go and get it at once."
'There is the Padre! Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda. 'Powers O' Darkness below, O'Hara! How many more mixed friends do you keep in Asia? he cried, as Kim slid down and stood helplessly before him. 'Good morning, Padre, the Englishman said cheerily. 'I know you by reputation well enough. Meant to have come over and called before this.
As I hurried along through the rain, I suddenly heard a man's voice behind me say: "Excuse me, sir! But may I speak to you for just one second?" I turned, and as I halted, a bare-headed young man-servant in livery, with waistcoat of striped black-and-yellow, faced me. "I'm sorry, sir," he exclaimed breathlessly, "but will you wait just a moment?" "What do you want?"
"Can't think of anything," answered the elder brother. Then, with a sudden lighting of his face, he seized the knife again, and worked in, in fine lettering, the frightened prayer he had heard on the half-breed's lips: "God, I am weak; pity me!" Herb and Cyrus lowered the body into its resting-place, and covered it with the green spruces. The four campers knelt bare-headed by the grave.
But Bannon let his coat flap open, as he gave a hand now and then to help the men. He liked to feel the wind tugging at sleeves and cap, and he leaned against it, bare-throated and bare-handed bare-headed, too, he would have been had not a carpenter, rods away on the cribbing, put out a hand to catch his cap as it tried to whirl past on a gust.
With a shuddering groan, Oliver ran out into the pelting rain, bare-headed, on to the other end of Allonby Edge, where stood the White House with the red lamp, the home of the other Doctor Carew, the brother who had not spoken to Oliver's Father for three years.
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