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He ought to have had a chance in his youth, but his father was the last man in the world to encourage out-of-the-way ambitions in his sons. Father and mother were alike hard, grasping, and ungracious. The father, on the whole, was a pleasanter person than the mother, with her long, pale, horse-face and ready sneer; he was only uncompromisingly hard and ungenial to all the world.
"It means, most likely, that the fellow with the curls that made me think of my maiden aunt, has managed to keep his horse-face above water." He meant Manuel-del-Popolo. "What mischief he may do yet before he runs his head into a noose, it's hard to say. The old Spaniard you brought with you thinks he has already been busy for no good, you may be sure." "You mean that's one of the Rio schooners?"
Hoey, and smiled again. He was intensely annoyed. Mrs. Molie turned pink and pretty. At the next meal, Mr. Hoey could contain himself no longer. "Ladies," he said, "mine eyes have now beheld Master Solem." "Well?" "Common sneak-thief!" "Oh, shame!" "You must admit he has a brazen look on his face. No beard. Blue chin, a perfect horse-face...." "There's no harm in that," said Mrs. Molie. Mrs.
It must have been all of fifteen minutes fifteen minutes of dull, homesick silence before that long horse-face swung round upon me again and then, what a change! It was as red as fire, and every muscle in it was working. Now came this shriek 'Here! You going to set there all day? I lit in the middle of the floor, shot there by the electric suddenness of the surprise.
"If you are ashamed of your mother, maybe you had better not be seen out with her again. All I am good for is to stint and manage to get you pretty clothes." "No, n-no, mamma, I didn't mean that, dear." "For a horse-face like him I won't be made little." "Sh-h-h-h, dear! The whole street car doesn't need to hear." "I wouldn't give a row of pins for ten like him." "Mamma, the way you talked."
"'Horse-face, I have heard satirists say," Carlyle wrote of him, recalling a comparison of Hazlitt's; and the horse-face seems to be symbolic of something that we find not only in his personal appearance, but in his personality and his work. His faults do not soften us, as the faults of so many favourite writers do.
There was something of the stupidity and the unenlightened self-esteem of a horse in it. 'She's got a horse-face, Ursula said to herself, 'she runs between blinkers. It did seem as if Hermione, like the moon, had only one side to her penny. There was no obverse. She stared out all the time on the narrow, but to her, complete world of the extant consciousness. In the darkness, she did not exist.
I felt like exclaiming, "At last!" "That's the one I met you with, isn't it? Not bad-looking," said Mrs. Kalch "Which do you mean?" "'Which do you mean'! The tall one, of course; the one you were so sweet on. Not the dwarf with the horse-face." "They're fine, educated girls, both of them," I rejoined. "Both of them! As if it was all the same to you!"
It must have been all of fifteen minutes fifteen minutes of dull, homesick silence before that long horse-face swung round upon me again and then, what a change! It was as red as fire, and every muscle in it was working. Now came this shriek 'Here! You going to set there all day? I lit in the middle of the floor, shot there by the electric suddenness of the surprise.
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