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Several times also, in the meanwhile, low-set, brawny men, bareheaded and black-bearded, came and asked for Ben-Hur at the tent; his interviews with them were always apart; and to his mother's question who they were he answered, "Some good friends of mine from Galilee."
For the second time black-bearded Hermon seemed inclined to give up his resistance, but Myrtilus cried in zealous refusal: "For Hermon's sake, I insist upon my denial. The judges must not talk about the work until both tasks are completed, for then each of us will be as good as certain of a prize. I myself believe that the one for Demeter will fall to me."
In an instant some half a dozen of them sprang into the boat; the brig's gangway was opened, and the boat's crew were somewhat sullenly assisted up the side of the brig and on to her deck. The black-bearded man met them as they came up the side, and held out his hand to Captain Staunton. "Morning, straanger," he repeated. "I'm powerful glad to see you all." "Thank you," returned the skipper.
I was told that while in London he had to account to her for every penny of the money he took with him in the morning, and for every hour of his time. And she kept the bankbook, too. Those steely-blue eyes of his flashed with positive ferocity out of that black-bearded face. He impressed me there was so much dark passion in his leisurely contempt. "The cheek of the fellow!
The black-bearded man who had been lounging over the poop rail watching us work, and at whom I had been casting curious and fearful glances as I rushed about beneath his arctic glare, now swung about and damned the helmsman's eye with soft voiced, deadly words. The mates' voices dropped low, and we listened to Yankee Swope's storm of venomous curses with bated breath. As a man curses so he is.
Fair-haired Myrtilus seemed to pay little heed to the game which Gras, Archias's Bithynian house steward, was counting, but black-bearded Hermon had given it more attention, and when Daphne drew back he nodded approvingly, and pointing to the heap of motionless inhabitants of the air, exclaimed with sincere regret: "Fie upon us human wretches!
Let me take this young lady to her mother. Grim looks were levelled at them by the fierce black-bearded men, and their mutterings of belle made her cling the closer to her guardian. 'Let her pass, the poor child! said more than one voice. 'Hein! they are English, who take the bread out of our mouths.
'I eat very little, said my black-bearded, bright-eyed fellow-tramp; 'but, he added, 'I drink three or four glasses of absinthe a day. 'You will eat still less, I said, 'if you don't soon begin to turn off the tap.
Everything in the room had some such vivid memory to suggest; and as he sat dismally on the side of their bed, adjoining which was little Henrik's, his thoughts were occupied with many a trivial recollection of the kind, which might seem almost childish in a man of his age and character, and of such a stern, black-bearded exterior; but he was anything but stern now.
There was William, a black-bearded, genial, quick-stepping giant who seized me by the collar with one hand and lifted me off the floor as if I were a puppy just to see how much I weighed; and David, a tall young man with handsome dark eyes and a droop at the outer corner of his eyelids which gave him in repose a look of melancholy distinction.
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