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His white hair and beard encircled a shrivelled, hawklike face, the mouth was sucked back in a toothless eddy that brought tip of nose and tip of chin into whispering distance, the eyes glittered from behind the overhanging, ragged brows like those of a hungry animal searching through the brush for its prey. "If you’ve done eatin’," whispered Mrs. Yellett to Miss Carmichael, "you’d better run on.
But Dom Claude saw everything. The door was made of thoroughly rotten cask staves, which left large apertures for the passage of his hawklike gaze. This brown-skinned, broad-shouldered priest, hitherto condemned to the austere virginity of the cloister, was quivering and boiling in the presence of this night scene of love and voluptuousness.
"I had a shipmate once," I observed, interested in his story, "who claimed to have seen the fellow; he described him as being a very large man, with intensely black hawklike eyes, and a heavy black beard almost hiding his face." Haley laughed. "Maybe he looked like that when he saw him, but he ain't no bigger man than I am; he won't weigh as much by fifteen pound.
The hawklike yet benevolent and illuminating look he gave her recalled the man at Silliston whom she had thought a carpenter though he was dressed now in a warm suit of gray wool, and wore a white, low collar. "In Silliston!" she exclaimed. "Why what are you doing here?" "Well this instant I was just looking at those notepapers, wondering which I should choose if I really had good taste.
His eyes, after hovering hawklike, settled, in a grey, level, impersonal glance, on me. "Come in here," he bade, not even calling me by name. I stepped inside, trying hard to be bold. But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
It struck Clancy that the Senator resented this incautious using of names. The shabby-genteel woman, hovering behind the policeman, was following the scene with hawklike eyes, and Clancy kept her, too, under close observation. The Senator coughed, and lowered his voice. "I shall be most pleased to discuss matters with him," he said. "It will be a pleasure to render him a service if you ask it."
She shut the door, and then I saw, sitting in a corner, by a lighted table, an old man, bowed and shrunken, white hair and white beard falling all about him, and nothing of his features to be seen save high cheek-bones and two hawklike eyes which peered up at me. "So, so, from Jean," he said in a high, piping voice.
Upon the forefinger of his left hand he displayed a thick snake-ring of tarnished metal, and he had a large, overblown rose in his button-hole. His mustaches had been carefully waxed, his hair cropped, and his hawklike, subtle, and yet violent face well washed for the great occasion. With bold familiarity he seized Maurice's hand. "Buon giorno, signore. Come sta lei?" "Benissimo."
Little old New York is good enough for me when the place looks like this." At that instant he espied His Highness lurking near a distant window. "Who are you, young man?" he called. "Walter King, sir." "Oh, the young chap who is going to look after the dogs?" "Yes, sir." "Humph! Like dogs?" "I yes, sir," answered the lad at a warning glance from Jerry. Ruthlessly the hawklike eyes devoured him.
His serenity was a somewhat hawklike repose, but the light that came into his narrowed eyes was of rather amused liking, as a man on a claybank horse rode up before the cabin in the space where alone it was not hidden by the ranks of the tall corn.
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