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When she left, Uncle Eugene, grim and hard-lipped as ever, saw her to the door. "Good evening, Niece Dorinda. Tell your mother that many things in this life are lost through not asking for them. I don't think you are in need of the information for yourself." Her Own People The Taunton School had closed for the summer holidays.
"The wells are to the right, my brothers," said one, a hard-lipped, clean-shaven man with grizzly hair. "To the right of the Sierra Blanco so we shall reach the Rio Grande," said another. "Fear not for water," cried a third. "He who could draw it from the rocks will not now abandon His own chosen people." "Amen! Amen!" responded the whole party.
Presently Uncle Eugene came in, a tall, black-eyed old man, with a fine head of silver hair that should have framed a ruddy, benevolent face, instead of Uncle Eugene's hard-lipped, bushy-browed countenance. Dorinda stood up, dusky and crimson, with brave, glowing eyes. Uncle Eugene looked at her sharply. "Who are you?" he said bluntly. But Dorinda remained standing.
And though there was much to notice in the various persons scattered over the scene, not one, perhaps, not the graceful Vernon, not the thoughtful scholar, nor his fair-haired, hard-lipped son, not even the handsome listener she addressed, no, not one there would so have arrested the eye, whether of a physiognomist or a casual observer, as that young girl, Sir Miles St.
Farther on, at the top of the room, is the likeness of the great Paolo himself a dark, olive-skinned man, with a hard-lipped mouth, and resolute eyes, clad in a complete suit of gold-embossed armor. By Paolo's side appears Battista, who followed the Crusades, and entered Jerusalem with Godfrey de Bouillon; also Gianni, grand-master of the Knights Hospitallers of St.
"You darling!" she whispered, so that only he could hear. "I love you in your gaiters better than I ever loved you before." Then she handed him up to his father as if he were a dear little parcel. "That's it," said Dion. "Put your arm round here, boy. Hold on tight! Let him go!" The hard-lipped man stood to one side and the horse well, moved.
She reproduced, on a diminished scale, her father's outline of face, but that which was gentle, mysterious, and alluring in her, in him was informed with a rugged wildness. There was something bird-like and predatory in his boldly curving nose with its narrow nostrils, in his hard-lipped mouth, full of splendid teeth, in his sharp and pushing chin.
He's Indian; he'll pull through and tell a tale besides. As they cut his garments from him, near his right breast could be seen two unhealed, hard-lipped knife thrusts. 'I will talk of the things which were in my own way; but you will understand.
And though there was much to notice in the various persons scattered over the scene, not one, perhaps, not the graceful Vernon, not the thoughtful scholar, nor his fair-haired, hard-lipped son, not even the handsome listener she addressed, no, not one there would so have arrested the eye, whether of a physiognomist or a casual observer, as that young girl, Sir Miles St.
"It's only to answer a few questions. I understand you lost a ring at the Rosherwich Gardens yesterday evening: that's so, isn't it?" He was a military looking person, as Leander now perceived, and he had a close-trimmed iron-grey beard, a high colour, quick eyes, and a stiff hard-lipped mouth not at all the kind of man to trifle with.