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As Marcella turned the corner she saw them sitting under some palm trees outside a little cafe, bottles and glasses before them. Louis, who looked dirty and unkempt, was facing her. He broke off and darted towards her. "I wan' my money," he started. "You're not going to have it even if you try to get it with a sledge hammer, as you said you might," she said, white lipped.
It was as if the mere breath of his daughter's sweetly lipped use of "mother" swayed the bitter-sweet memory of the woman he carried so faithfully in the cradle of his heart. "Yes, baby about mother?" "Daddy" still fingering at the tie "was mother was everything all right with her up to the very end? I mean no nerv no pain? Just all of a sudden the end quietly.
The head, covered in patches with thin, yellowish hair, gave some promise of intellect, for the forehead was high, and appeared still more so from partial baldness; the eyes, embedded in fat and wrinkled skin, were small and lustreless, but they still had that acute look which education and ability communicate to the human orb; the mouth most showed the animal, full- lipped, coarse, and sensual; while behind one of two great ears stuck a pen.
Another the reports breaking the silence like a profanation. Unseen by either of us, Ventnor had slipped to one side where he could cover the core of ruby flame that must have seemed to him the heart of the Disk's rose of fire. He knelt a few yards away, white lipped, eyes cold gray ice, sighting carefully for a third shot. "Don't! Martin don't fire!" I shouted, leaping toward him. "Stop!
Thars a full fifty o' them sharks, more or less consider'bly more o' less than less o' more an' ef we hain't got ter hold a full hand in order ta clean 'em out, why, ye can call me a cross-eyed, hair lipped hyeeny, that's all." Redburn uttered an ejaculation as he saw the swarm of invaders that was perhaps more forcible than polite. He did not like the looks of things at all.
A wave of hatred, a hot desire to kill, passed through me as I scanned the face staring at us. It was a great gross mask of evil, of cold cruelty and callous lusts. Unwinking, icily malignant, black slits of eyes glared at us between pouches that held them half closed. Heavy jowls hung pendulous, dragging down the corners of the thick lipped, brutal mouth into a deep graven, unchanging sneer.
The voice of Norman was heard exclaiming, "Hold with your oars! the rapids! the rapids!" At the same time he himself was seen rising up and stretching forward for an oar. All was now consternation; and the movements of the party naturally consequent upon such a sudden panic shook the little craft until her gunwales lipped the water.
"Mother PLEASE will you make them stop?" Rachael was breathing deep, her own forehead was wet. She knew the child's strength was gone. "Just a little more, dearest," she said, white lipped; eyes full of agonized appeal turned to George. "Doctor " One of the nurses, her hand on his pulse, said softly. George Valentine looked up. Rachael's apprehensive glance questioned them both.
As comment upon the depth of feeling which the drawing reveals, one may read the pen picture which accompanied it: Then Georgette de Bertigny steps out through the haze, and stands, a tragic little figure, on the platform by the piano. Her hair and eyes are ebon black; her face, thin lipped and pale, is like a mask of ivory. There is no life whatever in it.
She had told him of her days as a bound girl in the family of a thin- lipped, hard-fisted New Englander, who had come West to take a farm, and of her struggles to obtain an education, of the pennies saved to buy books, of her joy when she had passed examinations and become a school teacher, and of her marriage to Windy then John McPherson.
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