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But looking at the old man as he stood quiet with his head bowed and his eyes cast down, he felt that to relinquish an inch of his baldness, an inch of his grey hair, an inch of his coat-skirt, an inch of his hat-brim, an inch of his walking-staff, would be to relinquish hundreds of pounds. 'Look here, Riah, said Fledgeby, mollified by these self-approving considerations.
He had passed into the neighborhood of Stone's River battlefield when a man approached him from the roadside and saluted in the military fashion, with a movement of the right hand to the hat-brim. But the hat was not a military hat, the man was not in uniform and had not a martial bearing.
The May sunshine, falling, athwart the face of the gloomy old building, was glad to light up the waves of his beard and hair, and to cast the shadow of his hat-brim over his forehead and eyes. The picture stays just long enough to fix itself in the memory, and then the young man goes lightly down the worn steps, and is lost along the crowded street.
Well, you see, I've got a sort o' bad memory, that kind o' won't let me forgit when I make a promise; bothers me that way a heap sometimes." He smirked in a self-deprecating way, and pulled his hat-brim down in front. Presently he spoke again, looking straight ahead over the horse's ears: "Now, that's the mischief about comin' with me got to run both blockades at oncet.
"Well, how much is it?" she teased when she saw he had discovered her. Bud drew a line across the note and added imaginary columns of figures, his hat-brim hiding his face. "Over eleven thousand dollars," he announced, and twisted the paper in his fingers while he went over to her. "Almost enough to start housekeeping!"
Neergard. Please do not buy up the rest of Long Island, because we need a new kitchen-garden very badly." Rosamund scarcely nodded his dismissal. And the next moment Neergard found himself quite alone, standing with the smirk still stamped on his stiffened features, his hat-brim and gloves crushed in his rigid fingers, his little black mousy eyes fixed on nothing, as usual.
"I thought if you felt disposed to put your name down " she heard Parvis continue. She opened her eyes with an effort, and they fell on the other portrait. It was that of a youngish man, slightly built, in rough clothes, with features somewhat blurred by the shadow of a projecting hat-brim. Where had she seen that outline before?
I leaned sidewise until her hat-brim was over me and whispered "Yankee foragers;" but as I drew my revolver we heard voices, I breathed a sigh of relief, and with her locks touching mine we chuckled to each other in the dark. The passers were slaves escaping to the Federal camp. Now they came into view, on the broader road, two whole ragged families with a four-mule team. They passed on.
"Are you Stutter Brown, of the 'Little Yankee'?" she asked doubtfully. "I-I reckon you've c-c-called the t-turn, Miss." She hesitated a moment, but there was something about this big, awkward fellow, with his sober eyes and good-natured face, which gave her confidence. "Do do you know a Mr. Ned Winston?" He shook his head, the locks of red hair showing conspicuously under the wide hat-brim.
"No, sir; when she came into the office she had lifted it up over her hat-brim you know how women do." "Yes so you saw her face distinctly when she entered?" "Yes, sir." "But when she went out, she had lowered her veil. Was it a heavy one?" "Why, sir," the witness hesitated, "just an ordinary veil, I should say." "But still heavy enough to conceal her face?" "Oh, yes, sir." The coroner nodded.
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