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When Albert entered the dining-room at his boarding-place that night he felt as if his face must show guilt, and when later he met Frank at the club that feeling increased. He was preoccupied and morose, and Frank, noticing his frame of mind, tried to cheer him. "You look as if you had been given a facer, old man," he said. "What is the matter? Has Frye been calling you down for something?"
Worden was very skilful at boxing, and he had given both Dirck and myself many lessons, so that I soon found myself the best fellow. I gave the butcher's boy a bloody nose and a black eye, when he gave in, and I came off victor; not, however, without a facer or two, that sent me to college with a reputation I hardly merited, or that of a regular pugilist.
He saw quite calmly, as through a club windowpane, all that must follow. He saw that men must find the unaccountable corpse; must extract the unaccountable sword-point; must notice the unaccountable broken sword or absence of sword. He had killed, but not silenced. But his imperious intellect rose against the facer; there was one way yet. He could make the corpse less unaccountable.
The quarterly remissions forwarded to him by certain obscure but respectable relatives in England, under the condition that he should never again set foot in that land of honest men, had not arrived. It was two weeks overdue. What had happened? Had they decided to cancel it? They had threatened to do so ere now. And if so, how was he going to live? It was a facer, that was.
"Well that's a facer, certainly," said Bob, rather warmly; "but if you come to that, where would you have been if we hadn't come to your help burnt out by this time, with your precious fort." "Bob Roberts," said Tom Long, solemnly, "or rather I suppose I ought to say Mr Roberts you are about the most quarrelsome fellow I ever met."
Jake's stock of patience was practically limitless, and he and Toby had always had a certain comradeship between them. But when she grew calmer at last he began to talk in the quiet, direct fashion habitual to him. "Say now! You've had a bit of a facer over this. But you needn't be frightened. You're safe enough from that damned Italian anyway.
Do you wish you were?" Stunned by this "facer," Reginald Van Slyke gasped and stared. That he, a scion of the Philadelphia Van Slykes, in his own right worth two hundred million dollars dollars ground out of the Kensington carpet-mill slaves by his grandfather should be thus flouted and put upon by the daughter of Flint, that parvenu, absolutely floored him.
That lady at the Hotel Cecil was Miss Anne Pendennis, a friend of my cousin, Mrs. Cayley. Do you know her?" "Well no." "Then who on earth made you think she was the original of that portrait?" "Cayley the dramatist; he's your cousin's husband, isn't he? I showed the portrait to him, and he recognized it at once." This was rather a facer, and I felt angry with Jim! "Oh, Jim!" I said carelessly.
"That from you, and in the presence of Weissmann, is a 'facer'! What has come over Morton Serviss that he should invite me to a lunch to talk over a case of hysterico-epilepsy, and start in by asking my opinion of spiritualism? Come, now, out with the real question."
When a man, habitually calm, turns anxious, he becomes more irritable; and the mixture of timidity and rashness he saw in Robarts made Dodd very anxious. He replied angrily, "At all events, I should not make a foul wind out of a fair one by heaving to; and if I did, I would heave to on the right tack." At this sudden facer one, too, from a patient man Robarts staggered a moment.
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