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His hands sought his pockets, too, and, if possible, he looked more mortified than the other. After looking for some time at the house, satisfied that they had put an end to future singing from the gallery, they walked slowly away, turning back every now and then to be certain that it was a fact. If ever I saw two mortified, hangdog-looking men, they were these two as they took their way home.
See those hangdog-looking fellows slouching before us? Ah! I need not tell thee what they are. Step out; let's see the sport." There was a wild mêlée about a hundred yards ahead. A fellow had made a cut with his dagger at a lady's purse, and had been promptly knocked down by her cavalier.
"Bring those two scoundrels here!" said he, and a hangdog-looking pair they were when presently lined up before the bearded commander, while no less a personage than Captain Garrett, at the head of forty troopers, was setting forth on the trail of his much-envied subaltern, to relieve him, if surrounded and attacked by the Sioux; to relieve him, in any event, of the care of the wagon, but under no circumstances to relieve him of his command or duties.
Twenty beautiful, spirited horses, six hangdog-looking thieves, with a single exhausted horse in the rear, on which was mounted an alert, keen-eyed and very hungry young soldier who wore a scarlet tunic and buffalo-head buttons. Her voice ceased, and she looked down at her son. The child lay for a moment, wide-eyed and tense.
"Do you remember von Brent, of Treves' staff?" "That hangdog-looking officer? Yes, master. I had the pleasure of knocking him down in the Cathedral before pinioning him." "He is in Frankfort to-night, and said he entered by the western gate just before it was closed." "Then he is a liar," commented Gottlieb, with his usual bluntness. "Such I strongly suspect him to be.
"Look at him, Frank," continued Andrew; "did you ever see such a miserable, hangdog-looking cur?" Frank felt in agony, and gripped his companion by the arm. "Did you mean that to insult me, boy?" said the man angrily. "Done it without the stick," said Andrew, not appearing to notice the man's words. "You see a good lash from the tongue was enough.
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