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The gentleman was thin and very neatly dressed; he had small, merry eyes and a face that was brown and dry-looking. "You are playing some game, I should suppose?" "No, sir," said Gerald, "only exploring." "May a stranger propose himself as a member of your Exploring Expedition?" asked the gentleman, smiling a tight but kind smile. The children looked at each other.
They were not a very striking party whom Captain Strong had gathered round his table, but, as he told Mrs Strong, he had to make the best of them. There was a curiously dry-looking Scotch merchant on his way back to Hong-Kong. An Irish major, with his wife and daughter, bound for the same place.
"You'll let me grumble now and then." Long before Farmer Tallington had parted from the squire at the beginning of the rough track which led from the Priory to Grimsey, Dick and Tom were down by the water's edge waiting for Dave, who came up with a dry-looking smile upon his face a smile which looked as if it were the withered remains of a last year's laugh. "How are you, Dave?" cried Dick.
Trenholme looked out on a neat garden plot, and beyond, in the same enclosure, upon lawns of ragged, dry-looking grass, in the centre of which stood an ugly brick house, built apparently for some public purpose. This was the immediate outlook. Around, the land was undulating; trees were abundant, and were more apparent in the moonlight than the flat field spaces between them.
If the Squire had known the worth of the old family portraits hanging in what had been the banqueting hall, where apples were now stored, he would doubtless have sold them, but he had cut himself off from civilised beings who might have praised them, and he thought the beruffed, steel-plated men and high-browed, pearl-decked ladies rather a dry-looking lot, though he never suffered Annie to say a disparaging word on the subject.
The doctor was a dry-looking little chap, with sandy hair, a freckled face, small grey eyes, and absurd white eyebrows and eyelashes, which made him look as if he had finished off his toilet with just a light flourish from the dredging-box. He was erect of carriage, and of a prompt, ridiculous alertness of step and motion, very much like that of Major Wellington De Boots.
"I'll walk with you as far as St. Michael's," said Wade, when they left the station. "I'm going to my study, there." They set off together, up the middle of the street, which gave them more elbow-room than the sidewalk narrowly blocked out of the snow. From a large store as they were passing, a small, dry-looking, pompous little man advanced to the middle of the street, and stopped them.
Then there were little excursions to make down moist ravines, where an antelope might be bagged for the larder; or up to some dry-looking flat, shut in by the hills, where grouse might be put up amongst the sage-brush and other thin growth, for six hard-working men out in these brisk latitudes consume a great deal of food, and the stores in the waggon had to be saved as much a possible.
They studied with aching heads the dry-looking tables of lift and resistance for which Carl telegraphed to Chicago.
Williams thought of inquiring whether she had had any dinner. On her replying in the negative she was beginning to feel quite tired and faint Mrs. Williams, with a half-reluctant air, brought out of a locked cupboard some very dry-looking bread and cold meat, which she set before Nelly. She was very hungry, so that even this was very acceptable, and she did justice to the meal.
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