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The presence of this grey-faced, silent, sad-eyed man was getting on his nerves. "The gold and the things stolen from the bank will be here in a few minutes; Brennan is bringing them." "And the deeds Mrs. Burke's deeds? Have you no trace of them?" "They are returned to the owner." "But they ought to be here. The Bank advanced money on them." "I am sorry. I cannot help it now.
Colonel Sullivan showed smaller to the eye, stood bowed and grey-faced, a man beaten and visibly beaten. But as Asgill turned on his heel Flavia found her voice. "Do not go!" she cried impulsively. "There must be an end! There must be an end of this!" But Asgill insisted.
It was said of him with pride by the townsfolk of Ramelton, that even at his worst, when he came galloping down the steep cobbled streets, mounted on a big white mare of seventeen hands, with his inseparable collie dog for his companion, a gaunt, grey-faced, grey-haired man, with a drooping eye, swaying with drink, yet by a miracle keeping his saddle, he had never ridden down any one except a man.
The contract for restoration hadn't been signed, and for months, and more than a year, we lay idle, nothing bein' done. "Near the beginnin' of this period, one day comes, for the third time of the Major's seein' him, the grey-faced man. 'Let bygones be bygones, he says. 'I was a good friend to you, though you didn't know it; and now, I expect, you're in the way to thank me.
He felt that he would willingly have given a thousand or two to plant them both into that bit of the outpost line, where a month before he had crawled round on his belly at dawn to see his company. Grey-faced and grey-coated with the mud, their eyes had been clear and steady and cheerful, even if their chins were covered with two days' growth. And their pay was round about a shilling a day. . . .
"We don't know anything about it, sir; it's all a mystery," the grey-faced old man replied. "When one of the housemaids went up to Miss Mary's room at eight o'clock this morning to take her tea, as usual, she received no answer to her knock. Thinking she was asleep she returned half-an-hour later, only to find her absent, and that the bed had not been slept in.
"Further," remarked Walter Fetherston, turning to Enid, "it was this man here" and he indicated the grey-faced doctor of Pimlico "this man who denounced you and Sir Hugh to the French authorities, and had you not heeded my warning you both would then have been arrested.
And all those years would be full of pitiful things, such pitiful things as the blackened ruins in the town behind, the little grey-faced corpses, the lives torn and wasted, the hopes extinguished and the gladness gone.... He was no longer thinking of the Germans as diabolical. They were human; they had a case. It was a stupid case, but our case, too, was a stupid case.
"'I am, says the Major. "'Of course, he answers. 'Where would be your fame and reputation as one of the leadin' prison reformers of the day if you had kep' on in that riming nonsense? "'Have you come for my thanks? says the Governor. "'I've come, says the grey-faced man, 'to examine and report upon your system. "'For your paper?
But if you know Principal Souza at all, you must know that he will not relinquish his position without a fight. He has friends and influence the Patriarch of Lisbon and many of the nobility will be on his side. I warn you solemnly against leaving any weapon in his hands." He paused impressively. But O'Moy, grey-faced now and haggard, waited in silence for him to continue.
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