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They had been waiting for him the regulars. They had been waiting for him longer than Old Jerry knew. In the chair that had been the throne-seat of the town's great man the servant of the Gov'mint sat and faced his loyal circle. He had reached his climax had hammered it home. Now he was rounding out his conclusion for those who hung, hungry-eyed, upon his eloquence.
Timid and cowardly at heart, the young waif would have shuddered had he known of the callous-handed and desperate murders which had shocked Vienna just before Hugo Landor, a talented and handsome young chemist, disappeared forever in flight, lost under a cloud of scandal caused by drink and a maddening devotion to a baby-faced devil of the Ring Strasse Theater chorus, a woman at whose feet the hungry-eyed aristocrats had knelt to sue, a man-eater, a hard-hearted, velvet-eyed, reckless and defiant devil.
Plead for me!" and he rolled in the dust, trying to clasp Leonard's feet. "I cannot shrive you," answered the priest shuddering, "but I will pray for you." Then the hungry-eyed natives pounced upon Pereira to drag him thence, but Leonard broke through them saying: "I will have none of your savage cruelties here. Let the man be shot if you will, but no more."
At last she found some real oak rails, and set to work upon them at once, planing with her sharp shear-jaws. A tiger-beetle, gaudy and hungry-eyed, sought to pounce upon her in this task.
If the territory that it possessed was worth having, it was surrounded by hungry-eyed nations that took the first occasion to band together and despoil the spoiler. The holding of an empire was as great a task as the building of empire often greater because of the larger outlay in men and money that was involved in an incessant warfare.
The crowd of hungry-eyed race-goers waiting below the box, and watching Carter's every movement, distressed Dolly. "I hate it!" she cried. "They look at you like a lot of starved dogs begging for a bone. Let's go home; we don't want to make any more money, and we may lose what we have. And I want it all to advertise the book."
When Elmira returned with her mother's red cashmere shawl pinned carefully over her childish shoulders, with her sharply pretty, hungry-eyed little face peering meekly out of the green gloom of the great pumpkin hood, Mrs. Edwards gave her orders.
They came every Sunday, and sat out the allotted time for visitors beside her crib, while the other children watched in a silent, hungry-eyed fashion. Margaret MacLean passed her with a kiss and went on to Peter Peter seven years old congenital hip disease and all boy. "Hello, you!" he shouted, squirming under the kiss that he would not have missed for anything.
The duke, who knew all about her, received her amiabilities with appreciative smiles, but it was the splendidly handsome, hungry-eyed young woman with the line between her black brows who engaged his attention. On the alert, as he always was, for a situation, he detected one at once when he saw his American address her. She did not address him, and scarcely deigned a reply when he spoke to her.
The sight of their somewhat bovine contentment took her thoughts away from her own cares and losses; and presently, when the banquet was concluded a conclusion only arrived at by the total consumption of everything provided, whereby the hungry-eyed gipsy attendants sunk into despondency Vixen constituted herself Lord of Misrule, and led off a noisy procession in the time-honoured game of Oranges and Lemons, which entertainment continued till the school-children were in a high fever.
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