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They're inside." She rose, and moved toward the door, waving him to follow. Her slow, clumsy body and chinless, full-lidded head reminded him of a turtle; she gave a still deeper amphibious impression there was something markedly cold-blooded, inhuman, deleted, in her incongruous, gaudy bulk an impression of a low, primitive organism, the subtle smell of primal mud.
After a glance at old Gerry a chinless child of about nineteen Roland felt that it would be churlish to be angry with a young man whose intentions had been so wholly admirable. Old Gerry had one of those faces in which any alteration, even the comparatively limited one which a roll would be capable of producing, was bound to be for the better.
Fine head, good mouth, straight nose, chin like a stone wall! Goodness! do you never meet up with that chin?" She looked around at Ellen with mischief in her bright brown eyes. "Of course I do! Would you have a man chinless?" "Luckily, you have a determined little round chin of your own," Miss Ruston observed. "And you're happy with him? Yes, I can see it in your face.
'In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes! as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.
Sidney had the gift, not uncommon in the chinless, smooth-baked type of man, of being able to see a pretty girl come into the restaurant even when his back was towards the door. They had hardly seated themselves when he was beside their table bleating greetings. 'Why, Henry! Always here! 'Wife's birthday. 'Many happy returns of the day, Mrs Mills.
The excitement of the crowd began to infect the girl, even though she looked on from the outside. The exultant voices, the sudden hush, the tensity of nerve it all betokened, set her a-thrill. A stranger left the throng and rushed to the spot where Cherry and Mexico stood talking. He was small and sandy, with shifting glance and chinless jaw.
"Ha, ha!" laughed, in a great horse laugh, a nearly chinless villager; "say till ole Patty Cannon can git 'em!" The purchaser gave a cunning, self-convicted smile at the passing chancellor, whose look of resignation only deepened and grew more humble. The Judge had some vague recollection which moved him to change the subject.
She turned proudly away from him, without waiting for his reply. "Lord Denysfort, here I am," said she; and the chinless young man with the large ears gave her his arm and conducted her down the steps. Lionel looked after her bewildered.
I did it to keep them quiet; I was weak enough to compromise between a fox hunt or fudge; so I said you'd lunch with them.. Will you?" "Certainly. . . . And, Nina what sort of a man is this George Fane?" "Fane?" "Yes the chinless gentleman with gentle brown and protruding eyes and the expression of a tame brontosaurus." "Why how do you mean, Phil? What sort of man? He's a banker.
"H'm," ruminated Welton. "Chinless, eh? I wondered why he wore long white whiskers." As he walked up the street toward the hotel, where he would spend the night before undertaking the long drive back, somebody hailed him. He looked around to see a pair of beautiful driving horses, shying playfully against each other, coming to a stop at the curb.
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