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When she was ready, Inspector Pryor would have escorted her down stairs, but she shook off his hand with angry scorn, and with an expletive that made even his case-hardened ears burn and tingle again. "If I maun gae, I will gae; but I willna hae your filthy hand on me, ye beastly de'il!" she added, as she reached the cab.
Inspector Val was neither shocked nor surprised at the spectacle before him; he was case-hardened by a multitude of professional experiences, and besides, for full a fortnight he had read murder in the San Reve's face. Storri was lying upon the lounge, dead stone-dead. A trifling hole in the back of the head showed where the bullet entered in search of his life.
Pack each of you one box of the things he most wishes to take with him, and report back here in not more than thirteen minutes. Say nothing to anyone else." They filed out calmly, and as they passed out into the hall Baxter, perhaps a trifle less case-hardened than his fellows, at least voiced a thought for those they were so brutally deserting.
He only became aware of ever-increasing uneasiness, and exhibited a tendency to rub the backs of his hands violently on his trousers, and to polish his countenance with his cuffs. It must be the effect of exposure to the sun, he thought yes, that was it; of course, that would go off soon, and he would become case-hardened, a regular mountaineer! Ha! was that a trout?
But that the girls of to-day are any the less womanly, in all that is sweet and essential in womanliness, than any generation of their ancestors, I for one do not believe. In particular, are American girls supposed to be so commercially case-hardened that their artistic sensibilities have been destroyed.
Father plays the fiddle. 'He's got it wrong, thought Hazel. 'Young lady! repeated the landlord. 'Hawburn? No, there's no lady of that colour hereabouts. And what ladies there be are weathered and case-hardened. 'The one I'm looking for's young young as a kitten, and as troublesome. Hazel clapped her hands to her mouth. 'There's no fiddler chap hereabouts, then?
And Ulysses answered, "I understand and heed. Go in first and leave me here where I am. I am quite used to being beaten and having things thrown at me. I have been so much buffeted about in war and by sea that I am case-hardened, and this too may go with the rest.
"Indeed! have they done so, case-hardened creatures?" mildly inquired Father Gray. "Aye, have they; but you, dear sir, may be able to persuade them to do so." "I shall endeavor! I shall endeavor!" said the mild old man. The warden then requested the visitors to follow him and led the way up-stairs to the cells. "I understand that the criminals are confined separately?" said Mr. Gray to the warden.
The difficulty is that one acquires habits and mannerisms; one is crusty and gruff if interfered with. But, as Pater said, to acquire habits is failure in life. Of course, one must realize limitations, and learn in what regions one can be effective. But no one need be case-hardened, smoke-dried, angular.
Resting on his titular dignity as chief he seldom appeared in public, spending most of his time up his tree snoozing or reading an old copy of the New Bedford "Argus," which he was never without. Tonight, however, he blazed forth in full regalia, wearing his best blue marble, his visor-cap wreathed with nabiscus blossoms, his case-hardened countenance lighted with conviviality.
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