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Halleck was greatly changed: the full beard that he had grown scarcely hid the savage gauntness of his face; but the change was not so much in lines and contours as in that expression of qualities which we call looks. "Well, Atherton!" "Halleck! You!" The friends looked at each other; and Atherton finally broke from his amaze and offered his hand, with an effect, even then, of making conditions.
"Well, Marty," he said; and was surprised to read in her face that the case was not so hopeful as he had imagined. "I am sorry for your labor," she said. "It is all lost. He says the tree seems taller than ever." Winterborne looked round at it. Taller the tree certainly did seem, the gauntness of its now naked stem being more marked than before.
He had the gauntness, sallowness of complexion, and deliberateness of manner peculiar to the people of New England. And though he was a very ugly, lank, uncouth man, I protest he was as fair in my sight as if he had been the ambrosial angel described by Milton.
Strangely young too, almost a boy; tall and slight as his own sword, the grey eyes big under dark brows, the face sun-golden and lean almost to gauntness. "How did you do it?" murmured the boy. The other's eyes clouded; the lids fell. "I could not have done it but for her," he said. Then for the first time the boy remembered the dead woman.
The moonlight shining upon his face showed it haggard, unkempt, and unshorn. Plainly he had been several days in hiding; and by the gauntness of his figure, and the wolfish gleam in his eye as it roved quickly round the apartment, as if in search of food, it was plain that he was suffering keenly from hunger, too. Bertram's decision was quickly taken.
And, indeed, his days of captivity had left their mark on him the increased gauntness of his figure apart in a certain irritation and nerve distress, which inclined him for once to regret the multitude of acquaintance that his long habit of sojourning there had obtained.
Bray who stood, non-committal and observant just inside the door. She knew, too, that Bertram was depressed by the gauntness and gaiety of the bedroom and even more depressed by the maroon leather furniture and the cases of stuffed birds below, and that he was at once glad to get away from Charlock House and sorry for her that she should have to be left there, alone with Mrs. Bray.
The long, well-ribbed-up body, with just a trace of gauntness in the flank; the slim neck; the deep chest; the broad, flat canon bones, and the well-let-down hocks, giving a length of thigh like a greyhound's and the thighs themselves, as John Porter looked at them under the tucked-up belly of the gentle mare, big, and strong, and full of a driving force that should make the others break a record to beat her.
But that bony gauntness in his face, and all it showed me he had been through, gave him some right to his rudeness, I thought. So I changed my mind and stuck to my purpose of having it all out with Joe and learning what he was about. Persisting in my friendliness my questions slowly drew him out.
Many of the cacti were in their beautiful bloom and gave to the country the needed dash of color. Occasionally one saw small herds of cattle feeding off the short stubby vegetation. They were drawing near the mountains, whose gauntness seemed less when approached. "They're like ugly people grow better looking as you get to know them," mused Polly. "Oh, my gracious, what's the matter now?"
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