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He rang the bell and waited, his right hand on the pocket of his overcoat. The door opened cautiously a few inches and a pair of close-set eyes in a wrinkled face gimleted Clay. "Whadya want?" "The old man sent me with a message," answered the Arizonan promptly. "Spill it." "Are you alone?" "You know it." "Got everything ready for the girl?" "Say, who the hell are youse?" "One of Slim's friends.
She had reached the edge of the heath, where the wood began, and the path ran winding down it, with banks of thick fern on either hand. If it had not been for the dog she could have slipped under the close-set trees, whence the light had already departed, and lain close among the fern. But with Roddy no chance!
No one could fail to notice the vast breadth of shoulder, the firm, columnar throat, and the small athlete's head with close-set ears.
His beady, close-set eyes and hair sleeked back. Like a rat! And she was mixed directly up in it, she Mary Louise McCallum, the daughter of Angus McCallum. She shuddered and hurried on. As she passed Chestnut Street they were going into the "movie" theatre. There was a long queue stringing out on the pavement. She was hardly aware of it but kept on walking straight north.
I will tell you. There will be no reward. We ask none. We fight for hate of England. Peter grunted a deep approval. 'That is good talk, said our entertainer, and his close-set eyes flashed. 'There is room in Germany for such men as you. Where are you going now, I beg to know. 'To Holland, I said. 'Then maybe we will go to Germany. We are tired with travel and may rest a bit.
They had made an unusually early start, for the river would be more and more crowded as they neared the three close-set cities Louisville, Jeffersonville, and New Albany, and the helpless little show boat must give the steamers no excuse for not seeing her. All day a long, dreamy, summer day they drifted lazily downstream, and, except Tempest, all grew gayer and more gay.
But was it purely Anita's fancy or had some indefinable change actually taken place in the manner of her spiritual adviser? The rather close-set eyes seemed to the girl to gleam somewhat coldly upon her, and although he took both her hands in his in quick, fatherly greeting, his hand-clasp appeared all at once to be lacking in warmth.
Their long arms, their short and crooked legs, their close-set, evil eyes, and their low, receding foreheads gave them a bestial appearance that sent a qualm of paralyzing fright through the shaken nerves of the Belgian.
As she walked to the door, the other clerk, the one with the close-set eyes, was saying something to him in a sharp tone. She paused a moment. Past her on the sidewalk pressed a steady stream in each direction. Hot, perspiring faces, flushed and lined with concentration, worry, or fatigue all hurrying. She felt curiously complacent and aloof. Perhaps it was the momentary rest and cooling.
Of these pygmies there are two kinds; one a very degraded specimen with ferretlike eyes, close-set nose, more nearly approaching the baboon than was supposed to be possible, but very human; the other very handsome, with frank open innocent features, very prepossessing. They are quick and intelligent, capable of deep affection and gratitude, showing remarkable industry and patience.
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