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Saying which, he rose abruptly, and with long jerking steps limped to the door, at which, I saw, in the shade, the face of a dark-featured man, looking gloomily in. When he reached the door Uncle Lorne suddenly stopped and faced us, with a countenance of wrath and fear, and threw up his arms in an attitude of denunciation, but said nothing.
Just as Viushin was filling up our cups for the third time, the skin curtain of the low doorway at our side was lifted up, and the most extraordinary figure which I ever beheld in Kamchatka crawled silently in, straightened up to its full height of six feet, and stood majestically before us. It was an ugly, dark-featured man about thirty years of age.
The confusion only lasted a moment. "Surround the rat-hole! Not a single one must escape down with the poliziotti!" exclaimed the Italians, wildly. In firm columns they advanced against the barracks, and then they paused. Suppose treachery was in store for them? The patriots now retreated to the right and left, to make room for two persons: a white-haired old man and a handsome dark-featured boy.
They were mostly slightly built, dark-featured men, attired in blue and white uniforms, the worse for wear, and were all laughing at my crazy entrance. No doubt my coming afforded some relief to their tiresome, dull routine. While lying there, apparently breathless from my fall, my brains effectively muddled, a young officer advanced hastily from out the gloom to inquire into so unusual an uproar.
Bright fires burned here and there, and dark-featured men squatted upon the ground, cared for their horses, or busied themselves near two large caravans, at the doors or on the steps of which now and again appeared a woman. She had waked without moving, had observed the scene without drawing the attention of a man a sentry who sat beside the tent-door. The tent was empty save for herself.
Lean, dark-featured, with keen-glancing eyes, and a body with a faculty for finding corners of ease; waving hair, streaked with grey, black moustache, and a hectic flush on the cheeks, lending to the world-wise face a wistful look-that, with near six feet of height, was the picture of his friend. "Who is it?" asked the miller, with bulging eyes. "An English nobleman," answered Baby.
Out of the office building sprang a dark-featured Mexican, perhaps forty years of age. He was truly a large man more than six feet in height, broad of shoulder and deep of chest, a splendid type of manhood. "My good Gato," purred Don Luis, "pay your respects to Los Caballeros Reade and Hazelton." Gato approached, without offering his hand.
When I came to my senses again, I was lying on a part of the beach I was unacquainted with; a tall, handsome, dark-featured young man, was bending over me, and, within a few yards of where I lay, a small light boat was drawn up on the shore. "'So you have opened your eyes at last, my friend, said the man; 'you have had a narrow squeak for it.
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