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Updated: May 17, 2025
It was only when the crowd had carried away the Lord of Misrule in triumph that they understood that the grimace was the hunchback's natural face. In fact, the entire man was a grimace. Humpbacked, an enormous head, with bristles of red hair; broad feet, huge hands, crooked legs; and, with all this deformity, a wonderful vigour, agility, and courage.
Captain Barker dropped his pen, bounced up, and came rushing out by the front-door. "Where?" "Down towards the road." Years had not tamed the little hunchback's agility. Without troubling to fetch hat or wig, he raced down the garden path, and had almost reached the gate before Tristram caught him up.
The hunchback's faculties recovering slowly from their stupor, she at first received this fable without the least suspicion for she did not even know that Agricola had accompanied Mdlle. de Cardoville.
But, even as she spoke, a gleam of recognition suddenly spread over the hunchback's face, and, putting out his hand, he said, "Sal! YOU HERE, my dear?" "The air of London don't agree with me just now," was the reply; "and how are you, Jack?" "The country air's just beginning to disagree with me, my dear," said the hunchback; "but I'm glad to see you, Sal.
Jan's active imagination could not quite resist the influence of this romance, and he lay awake at night patching together the hunchback's reference to the nobs, and the incredulous glance of the dark-eyed gentleman who had given him the half pence, and who was certainly a nob himself.
The Baron de la Hunaudaye, bluff old soldier of the brave days of the dawning reign, was interested in the hunchback's words. "Of whom do you speak?" he asked. Æsop turned to the new-comers, and addressed them more respectfully than he had been addressing the partisans of Gonzague: "I speak of a gallant gentleman young, brave, beautiful, well-beloved. I speak to men who knew him.
"It will be a good jest," he murmured. The hunchback indorsed his words: "The best jest in the world. You will laugh and laugh and laugh to watch the hunchback's courtship." Gonzague turned again towards the doors. "I must rejoin my guests," he said; "but you look something glum and dull for a suitor.
Again he lost consciousness; his head grew very hot, his breath came hoarsely and his parched lips, though frequently moistened by careful hands, could only murmur the names of those he loved best, and among them that of Paula. At about five hours after noon he fell back on the hunchback's knees; he had ceased to suffer.
Indeed, those who discussed the new situation most avidly forgot how convinced they had been that marriage and not death was the hunchback's goal. How Yossel had found money for the great adventure was not the least interesting ingredient in the cup of gossip. It was even whispered that the grandmother herself had been tapped. Her skittish advances had been taken seriously by Yossel.
It hung at the height of a man's shoulders directly behind the spot where your brother must have stood after he struck the secretary, and it hung in this new spot to cover the crash of a bullet into the mahogany panel!" My father stopped and caught up the hunchback's double-barreled pistol out of the empty drawer.
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