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It was a smallish, mouse-coloured mule that emerged at length to view and it looked even smaller than it was because the man who straddled it dwarfed it with his own ponderous stature and a girth which was almost an anomaly in a country of raw-boned gauntness. The big man slid down, and his thick neck and round face were red and sweat-damp though the day was young and cool.
We are full at home of the question of agreeable wall-papers, and wise people are of opinion that the temper may be quieted by sedative surroundings. But what is to be said of the Nebraskan settler? His is a wall-paper with a vengeance one quarter of the universe laid bare in all its gauntness.
Dusky from the sun, and seeming more aquiline than ever in his gauntness, he remained like an effigy in the suit of white duck that hung round him in loose folds, without so much as a movement of his eyes. His hand rested on a tattered copy of an English journal.
The maxillary bones, which his indescribable gauntness caused to protrude, formed deep cavities in the centre of both cheeks. These protuberances, as the light fell upon them, caused curious effects of light and shadow which deprived that face of its last vestige of resemblance to the human countenance.
He seemed to have become utterly changed; the dark preoccupation had been absent from his face the gauntness, the grayness, seemed to have become subdued; the deep lines of pain, imperceptible at times, smoothed out and shadowed in an almost gay resurgence of youth.
"A little different," said Kenny. "Achilles, poor old scout, was much the inferior of the two." Again in fury Adam Craig coughed until it seemed that his life must end. Again he drank. Kenny knew by the flurried brightness of his eyes sunk deep in the yellowed gauntness of his face that he was drunk. He shuddered and rose.
To- night we have broken the arrangement that you should never come here; and this is the result. Will it offend you if I ask you to leave? 'Not in the least. Upon the whole, I prefer the comfort of my little cabin and homestead to the gauntness and alarms of this place. 'There, now, I fear you are offended! she said, a tear collecting in her eye. 'I wish I was going back with you to the cabin!
"And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with Mamselle you know whom I mean?" "She sulks at me with cruel patience." "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." "Alas!" "In your place, I would let her alone." "That is easy enough to say." "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" "Yes.
He was a failure, as she had said. Women as a rule do not care for failures, though there are some few who do. They love men who succeed. In personal appearance, aside from some angularities, considerable gauntness, and much sunburn, Seth told himself that he was not different from other men.
He appeared tall, but a recruiting sergeant, or other person accustomed to the judging of men's heights by the eye, would have discerned that this was chiefly owing to his gauntness, and that he was not more than five-feet- eight or nine.
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