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All were well armed and deeply tanned by exposure, but the attention of the five was instantly concentrated upon the first of the strangers, a young man of medium height, but of the most extraordinary ugliness. His skin, even without the tan, would have been very dark. His eyes, narrow and oblique, were almost Oriental in cast and his face was disfigured by a hideous harelip.
None offered sufficient shelter and gradually they came toward the Council House. Always the man with the harelip and ugly face led. Henry watched him closely. The twilight and the rain did not allow any very clear view of him, just enough to disclose that his face was hideous and sinister.
The greatest warrior who ever conquered armies has still the power to feel hurt when he sees some personal blemish or misfortune described in print. You would never be guilty of saying to any man's face, "How hideous your harelip renders you" and why should you go from his presence and make such a statement to the whole world concerning him?
A growl went up. "What'n hell's that for I!" snarled one of the owners of the whisky threateningly. "Don't allow no whisky here," snuffed the harelip. The men were very angry. They advanced toward the cripple, who retreated with astonishing agility to the lighted room.
But the queen was more wary as well as more agile than hitherto. The rest meantime, finding their adversary thus matched for the moment, paused in their headlong hurry, and turned to the shivering group of women in the corner. As if determined to emulate his father and have a sun-woman of some sort to share his future throne, Harelip rushed at them, caught up Lootie, and sped with her to the hole.
We'll go to Arizona, Colorado, Montana where it is high and dry " "I been to them places," he told her, dubiously, "and I 'most stopped breathing altogether." "New Mexico, then. You won't be ashamed of me there." "Say, Kid! I wouldn't be ashamed of a harelip and warts in New Mexico.
His broad, square face was very flat as though it had been bashed in by a mighty fist, and it was deeply pitted with smallpox; but the most revolting thing in him was a very pronounced harelip which had never been operated on, so that his upper lip, cleft, went up in an angle to his nose, and in the opening was a huge yellow fang. It was horrible.
And indeed it was only when the sun was away that the outside of the mountain was sufficiently like their own dismal regions to be endurable to their mole eyes, so thoroughly had they become unaccustomed to any light beyond that of their own fires and torches. Curdie listened, and soon found that they were talking of himself. 'How long will it take? asked Harelip.
By the time I'm thirty she will be ready to give me to a peddler with a harelip!" she said mischievously. "A peddler with a harelip! Marta, will you never be serious?" "Some day, mother," Marta went on, "when we find the right man, you hold him while I propose, and together we'll surely " Mrs.
'But the cobs have been into your house all over it and into your bedroom, making such a row! 'What did they want there? It was very rude of them. 'They wanted you to carry you off into the mountain with them, for a wife to their prince Harelip. 'Oh, how dreadful' cried the princess, shuddering. 'But you needn't be afraid, you know. Your grandmother takes care of you.
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