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But on arriving there he was met by an attendant in the ante-room who informed him that his Majesty had retired to his private library and desired to be left alone. The State prison was a gloomy fortress built on a wedge of rock that jutted far out into the ocean. It stood full-fronted to the north, and had opposed its massive walls and huge battlements to every sort of storm for many centuries.
The curtains were drawn across the western window, to close the conflict between God's light and man's, and then this well-known gentleman, having placed his bottle handily for he never "put wine into two whites," to use his own expression arose with his solid frame as tranquil as a rock, and his full-fronted head like a piece of it.
Family affection was what you looked for from the Randalls, and on Sundays they showed it by a frequent dropping in to tea. John Randall, the draper, was a fine man. A tall, erect, full-fronted man, a superb figure in a frock coat. A man with handsome eyes prominent, slightly bloodshot, generous eyes.
But amid all the ruined blossoms of earth, by the side of the dead, and full-fronted to the tempest, stood one living man, for whom life had no charm, and death no terror the King!
But the mother of Batard, as he dimly remembered her, was snarling, bickering, obscene, husky, full-fronted and heavy-chested, with a malign eye, a cat-like grip on life, and a genius for trickery and evil. There was neither faith nor trust in her. Her treachery alone could be relied upon, and her wild-wood amours attested her general depravity.
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