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Floyd placed his thin hand upon her, and Fledra remained silent, until she was summoned to the drawing-room. "Who wanted me?" Horace asked the question of the mystified servant. "I didn't catch the name, Sir. I didn't understand it. He's a dreadful-looking man." Horace rose, put down his cigar, and walked into the hall. Lon Cronk was waiting with a shabby cap in his hand.
Never have I seen a more dreadful-looking villain. In his hand he held a long, dull-coloured knife. The Abbot, on the other hand, was as polished and as dignified as ever. His Capuchin gown had been thrown open, however, and I saw beneath it a black, frogged coat, such as I have seen among the English officers.
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, that made him appear positively deformed. I never saw in my life a more dreadful-looking figure.
From Tandragee to Portadown, in Armagh, which we travelled in a special car, took us through the same green country waving with crops, and in some places shaded heavily with trees. In the environs of Gilford as if that very clean manufacturing town set an example that was universally followed all the houses are clean and white as to the outside, further away the dreadful-looking homes abound.
Though nothing, I am afraid, will be of the least use," said the Crow. "But if she is going into the country they won't meet," reasoned Anne. "You saw the dreadful-looking husband just now. Will he be the colonial who will object, do you think, or the English snob who won't?" But the Crow refused to give any more opinions except in general.
"But you couldn't help my being in the park to-day! I have often stopped just there before. It's a favorite place for meditations. If you know the man " "I know the man." "Then the law will certainly protect you, as you know very well. He was a dreadful-looking person. The police can undoubtedly find and lock him up."
Well, I disentangled myself somehow, and seizing what I took to be a gourd of water in that dim light, poured it over her head, only to discover too late that it was not water but clotted milk. However the result was the same, for presently she sat up, made a dreadful-looking object by this liberal application of curds and whey, whereon I explained matters to her to the best of my power.
While she wondered thus, one of the dreadful-looking little creatures advanced to the fire, and taking from it a burning bough, held it over the thing that lay upon the ground, to give light to a companion who was about to do something to it with the stone knife. Next instant Nanea drew back her head from the hole, a stifled shriek upon her lips. She saw what it was now it was the body of a man.
He appeared to be deformed, for he carried his head low and walked with his knees bent. We were passing him when he raised his face to look at us in the circle of light thrown by the lamp, and as he did so he stopped and screamed out in a dreadful voice, "My God, it's Nancy!" Mrs. Barclay turned as white as death, and would have fallen down had the dreadful-looking creature not caught hold of her.
Pendyce hurried, grasping her skirts in both her hands, and she noticed that the cattle were all grouped under the hedge. 'What dreadful-looking clouds! she thought. 'I wonder if I shall get to the Firs before it comes? But though her frock made her hasten, her heart made her stand still, it fluttered so, and was so full. Suppose he were not sober!
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