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Above his scraggy beard his face was dappled white and red in patches, and under the mottled skin little muscles twitched visibly. "What what do you want?" he demanded in a shaken, quick voice. A gold-capped tooth showed in his upper jaw between his lips. "We want a word or two with you," said Cassidy, with a sort of threatening emphasis. "Are you are you officers?"
Monkey gave her brother a nudge that nearly made him cry out. He wondered what she meant, but all the same he returned the nudge significantly. For Cousin Henry, when he smiled, had plainly shown two teeth of gold. The children had never seen gold-capped teeth. 'I'd like one for my collection, thought Jimbo, meaning a drawer that included all his loose possessions of small size.
The globular domes, all striped with the varied colors of the rainbow; the glittering gold-gilt cupolas; the rare and fanciful minarets; the shrines, and crosses, and stars; the massive steps; the iron railing, with shining gold-capped points surely, in the combination of striking and picturesque forms and colors, lights and shades, must ever remain unequaled.
Left to himself, the king could worry his moustache without stint; he leant his elbows forward on the balcony and gave both of his long white hands to the work, so that he looked like a pale dog gnawing a bone. Suppose they caught his men, what should he do? Suppose they caught his men? The clocks in the light gold-capped belfries of the town below presently intimated the half-hour after midday.
When she talked, a gold-capped tooth was disclosed on each side of her mouth, giving rise to the judge's joke that one was capped to keep the other company, since Mrs. Hollis's sense of order and regularity rebelled against one eye-tooth of one color and the other of another. "Good morning, doctor," she said shortly; "there's the door-mat. No, don't put your hat there; I'll take it.
Their backs were toward P. Sybarite, but by the fat pink folds above the back of Respectability's collar and the fat white side-whiskers adorning his plump pink chops, Beelzebub knew that he encountered for the second time that evening Respectability of the gold-capped cane. Without the least shame, he paused and cocked sharp ears to catch what he could of the conversation between these two.
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