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Updated: June 8, 2025
He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty. He is poorly dressed, and yet does not appear to be a labourer. A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him. Whether it was the weapon which did the deed, or whether it belonged to the dead man, I do not know.
In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking, of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style, of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food, of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins, of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it, in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.
There was found in his pockets, when the body was examined, no passport, nor certificate; one of his pockets contained a ball, of large calibre, which he had shown, in play, to a girl, at the inn at Macon, a little horn-handled knife, a snuff-box, a little packet of gunpowder, and a purse, containing only a halfpenny and some string.
Gridley sent cha, did he?" he observed, eyeing me most critically. "Yes, sir." "What's the matter? What does he want with 'em? Do ya know?" "Yes, sir. My father's sick with kidney trouble, and Dr. Gridley said I was to come out here." "Oh, all right. Wait'll I git my big knife," and back he went, returning later with a large horn-handled knife, which he opened.
The virtues of the great queens of Spain are revived in her. Oh, those soiled stockings, what real glory there is in them!" He took the letter and put it back in his book. Then, arming himself with a horn-handled knife, he began, with its point, to finish a figure sketched in the handle of his stick. He complimented himself on it: "I am skilful in all the arts of beggars and vagabonds.
"The gendarme who was examining the body announced: "'Clothed in a blue blouse, a white shirt, trousers, and a pair of shoes. "The first match went out; we lighted a second. The man continued, as he turned out his pockets: "'A horn-handled pocketknife, check handkerchief, a snuffbox, a bit of pack thread, a piece of bread. "The second match went out; we lighted a third.
And I showed her my latest knife one-bladed, horn-handled, terrific, hung round my neck with string; and she showed me the chiefest treasures the ship contained, hidden away in a most private and particular locker a musical box with a glass top that let you see the works, and a railway train with real lines and a real tunnel, and a tin iron-clad that followed a magnet, and was ever so much handier in many respects than the real full-sized thing that still lay and applauded in the offing.
At last they closed so nearly as to deceive my companion, who, rising stealthily to his feet, showed his teeth in a broad grin of satisfaction, and whipping from his coat pocket a glittering, horn-handled knife, ran his dirty, spatulate thumb over the blade to see if it was sharp.
He noticed, as the old man sank tremulously into it, that his movement was like that of his own father, and also that he looked very much like Christine. Dryfoos folded his hands tremulously on the top of his horn-handled stick, and he was rather finely haggard, with the dark hollows round his black eyes and the fall of the muscles on either side of his chin.
The virtues of the great queens of Spain are revived in her. Oh, those soiled stockings, what real glory there is in them!" He took the letter and put it back in his book. Then, arming himself with a horn-handled knife, he began, with its point, to finish a figure sketched in the handle of his stick. He complimented himself on it: "I am skilful in all the arts of beggars and vagabonds.
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