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Hampton could scarcely refrain from forming a mental picture of the woman who would most naturally preside within so unpolished an abode an angular, hard-featured, vinegar-tempered creature, firm settled in her prejudices and narrowed by her creed.
Yet she set forth, taking with her Henriette, the hard-featured, old, Breton maid, and Monsieur Pouf, the gray, Persian cat, he protesting plaintively from within a large Manilla basket, and thus accompanied, made pilgrimage to Brockhurst.
Accordingly, about a quarter to six, she enters the room a hard-featured, rough-voiced dame, perhaps, with a fist like a shoulder of mutton, but a soldier herself to the very core and with a big, tender heart somewhere about her.
He was a small, wiry, hard-featured fellow, the son of a stockman on a big cattle-station, and began life as a horse-breaker; he was naturally a horseman, able and willing to ride anything that could carry him. He left the station to go with cattle on the road, and having picked up a horse that showed pace, amused himself by jumping over fences.
Glossin paused the sweat broke upon his brow; while the hard-featured miscreant sat opposite coolly rolling his tobacco in his cheek. "It would be ruin," said Glossin to himself, "absolute ruin, if the heir should reappear and then what might be the consequences of conniving with these men?"
The fort was soon crowded with refugees, wives bewailing their husbands, husbands swearing to avenge their wives, parents lamenting their children, children of a sudden made orphans, and from north and south, scores of hard-featured, steel-eyed men came to us, their rifles in their hands, to offer their services, and after a time these came to be one of the most valuable portions of our force.
A shabbily-lit glass door admitted us into a dreary saloon bar, where a hard-featured, gruff-mannered young countryman, after serving beer to two farm-labourers, admitted with apparent reluctance that beds were to be had by such as had "the price," but that, as to supper, well! supper was "over" supper-time was six-thirty; it was now seven-thirty.
Except for the company of his Scandinavian hired man and the latter's hard-featured wife, he had lived alone in Spartan simplicity, thinking of nothing but his farm; and his guests' arrival had revealed to him the narrowness of his life.
There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone. "Goodwives," said a hard-featured dame of fifty, "I'll tell ye a piece of my mind.
A hard-featured man, whose sullen glance travels quickly about the place, comes next; he seems seeking for some one to welcome him, and is abashed to find himself alone among unheeding strangers.
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