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Clay, the pawnbroker, a little man with a deeply wrinkled face and shrewd, beadlike, black eyes, was darting in and out amongst his friends, laughing loudly, cracking jokes, and making himself generally facetious and agreeable. He clapped Jim on the shoulders, assured him that he was delighted to see him, and dragged him up to the sofa, where Louisa and Sampson were having a very open flirtation.
"Some dust," admitted Gideon proudly. He winked mysteriously at Gordon. "I got a use for this team, if any one was to ask you." "Haven't taken the Government mail contract, have you?" "Not so you could notice it. I'll tell you what I want with this team, as the old sayin' is." Holt lowered his voice and narrowed slyly his little beadlike eyes. "I'm going to put a crimp in Colby Macdonald.
She attempted to withdraw them; he clasped her about the waist. "Do you not love me, Desiree?" he cried, and his lips sought hers. They met; Desiree ceased to struggle. At that moment I heard a sound the faintest sound behind me. I turned. The king of the Incas was standing within the doorway, surveying the lovers with beadlike, sparkling eyes.
His face was rugged and wrinkled, and tanned to the tint of old oak; his eyes black, beadlike, and fierce, and a shock of sooty hair escaped from under his battered wide-awake nearly to his shoulders.
The tempter said: "My good Michel, would you care to receive this trifling sum a hundred francs?" The gnome made a choked, croaking sound in his throat. "It is yours," said Ste. Marie, "for a small service for doing nothing at all." The beadlike eye rose to his and sharpened intelligently. "I desire only," said he, "that you should sleep well to-night, very well without waking."
The man bowed; then, fixing on him a pair of beadlike brown eyes, which reminded Godwin of some he had seen, he knew not when or where, answered in the humble voice affected by his class: "Even so, most noble knight. Shelter for man and beast, for my mule is held without. Also a word with the lord, Sir Andrew D'Arcy, for whom I have a message." "A mule?" said Wulf.
Those cruel, blazing, beadlike eyes, that gliding snakelike form, that fearless, fatelike pursuit and tenacity of purpose, all put a spell upon the pursued that soon renders it helpless. A weasel once pursued a hen to my very feet and seized it and would not let it go until I put my foot upon it and gripped it by the back of the neck with my hand.
This lunch infused new energy into him, and in a short time "DODD'S FAMILY BITTERS, Best in the Market," disfigured the sweet-smelling pine boards. Ethan was eating his self-obtained supper of bread and milk when his wife came home. "Who's been a-paintin' on that barn?" she demanded, her beadlike eyes flashing, her withered little face set in an ominous frown. "Ethan Ripley, what you been doin'?"
"Five dollars," said a voice at the rear, and a short, stout man, with little, black, beadlike eyes, held up his hand to identify his bid. "Joe Bardi," said a man to his neighbor. Both turned interestedly. "And who is Joe Bardi?" inquired Indiman, blandly. "Business of shipping sailors. There's big money in it, they say." "Ah, yes, a crimp isn't that what they call them?" "Right you are, mister.
The future might be dark and unpromising, but for three days, at any rate, she should not want bread. Paul's turn came next. "What have you got?" asked the pawnbroker. Paul showed the ring. Eliakim took it, and his small, beadlike eyes sparkled avariciously as he recognized the diamond, for his experience was such that he could form a tolerably correct estimate of its value.
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