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"You're right, Mister, there hain't a finer young feller anywhere," chimed in Mr. Dodd, a portly person with a tuft of yellow beard on his chin. Mr. Dodd kept the hardware store in Brampton. "And who," asked the painter, "is the bullet-headed little fellow, with freckles and short red hair, behind the bat?" "I don't know," said Cynthia, indifferently. "Why," exclaimed Mr.
Wild but not inharmonious music from shaven-headed members of an orchestra of weird instruments gongs, shawns, cymbals, long silver trumpets deafened the ears. Crowds of gaily-clad spectators covered the flat roofs of the building and arcades, thronged the verandahs, filled the windows and squatted around the courtyard these last kept in order by bullet-headed lamas with whips.
The Political Officer rose as the Deb Zimpun, removing his cap, entered the office and rushed towards him. The bullet-headed, cheery old gentleman beamed with pleasure as they shook hands and greeted each other in Bhutanese. Wargrave marvelled at the ease and fluency with which Colonel Dermot spoke the language. The Amban now entered the room and was formally presented by the Deb Zimpun.
"The son of her was a bullet-headed ownsha," replied Mogue, "and herself well now, that I may never die in sin, if I could say rightly. I was fetehin' some oats to Gimlet Eye, an' didn't take any particular notice.
An' I tell ye, this 'un's a fine lady, even if a bit frolicsome. So git to your 'osses, Ben an' sharp's the word." The man Ben sniffed and, muttering evilly, slouched away, leaving his fellow to sigh gustily and stare up at the moon; a square-shouldered, bullet-headed man who, leering up at Diana's chaste loveliness, began to scrape and pick at his teeth with a thumb nail.
"What competition was that?" asked Sheen. Mr Bevan laughed. "It was a twenty-round contest, sir, for seven-fifty aside and the Light Weight Championship of the World." Sheen looked at him in astonishment. He had always imagined professional pugilists to be bullet-headed and beetle-browed to a man. He was not prepared for one of Mr Joe Bevan's description.
Somehow, Malone's confidence pleased Madden. That uncouth, bullet-headed officer had not spent his whole life on the high seas, belaboring all classes of men into serviceableness, without being able to judge the genus homo pretty shrewdly. The navvies accepted the new officer in stolid submission, but Hogan clapped his hands. "Hey, a spache fr-rom th' new boss!" he grinned. Leonard laughed.
It is elsewhere that we must look for deliverance, to the overwhelming power of better educated peoples; to closer intercourse between the nations; to the conviction that, from the most selfish point of view even, peace is the only path to prosperity; to the restraint of the baser Press which, for mere pelf, spurs the passions of the multitude instead of curbing them; and, finally, to deliverance from the 'all- potent wills of Little Fathers by Divine right, and from the ignoble ambition of bullet-headed uncles and brothers and cousins a curse from which England, thank the Gods! is, and let us hope, ever will be, free.
"By Jove!" said Gerald, roused at last from his habitual apathy. "What's the matter?" asked Orde, looking up from tying the rubber-soled shoes that Gerald had lent him. "Murphy," called Gerald, "come here." A very hairy, thick-set, bullet-headed man, the type of semi-professional "handlers," emerged from somewhere across the gymnasium. "Do you think you could down this fellow?" asked Gerald.
'He comes, said the elder man at length, as he leisurely shuffled the greasy cards. 'I hear his horse's hoofs. And, indeed, the great silence which seems to brood over the uplands of Spain the silence, as it were, of an historic past and a dead present was broken by the distant regular beat of hoofs. The trooper who had spoken was a bullet-headed Castilian, with square jaw and close-set eyes.
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