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He had well-nigh fully invested, in this way, the entire amount he had just received from the purser, Mr Nipper, on account of his advance pay as an "ordinary seaman," that being his rating; when, I noticed, a dark-faced, long-nosed gentleman come up to him and speak.
"You're accused of attempting to cut that boat down, last night, along with the persons who were in it," answered the man with the goatee. "Who accuses me?" "I do," said Mr. Grigsby, shortly. "It's a lie," retorted the long-nosed man, with an oath. "I wasn't up here. I was down below, keeping dry." "Here's your knife," pursued Mr. Grigsby, holding it out. The long-nosed man laughed sneeringly.
After an interval came two more Oliverians, grim of eye, and composed in manner. Last of all came the mulatto of the pale amber color and the gold ear-rings; and with him came the long-nosed, twitching-lipped convict in whose company Landless had crossed the Atlantic. His name was Trail; and Landless, knowing him for a villainous rogue, started at finding him amongst the company.
In happier times, they were badly lighted as the apertures were narrow and could admit but little light. Sweet clean baths have been introduced, but the populace is only the more foul." Long-nosed men were followed into the baths and were the recipients of admiration wherever they were.
They say that the long-nosed, lanky, dyspeptic-looking body-snatchers, with the indescribable hats on, and a long curl dangling down in front of each ear, are the old, familiar, self-righteous Pharisees we read of in the Scriptures. Verily, they look it. Judging merely by their general style, and without other evidence, one might easily suspect that self-righteousness was their specialty.
I have seen a tramp on the road a queer, long-nosed, short-sighted animal who would read Greek with the book upside-down. He was a very fine Latin scholar, and we tried him with Virgil; he could go off at score when he had a single line given him, and he scarcely made a slip, for the poetry seemed ingrained.
They say that the long-nosed, lanky, dyspeptic-looking body-snatchers, with the indescribable hats on, and a long curl dangling down in front of each ear, are the old, familiar, self-righteous Pharisees we read of in the Scriptures. Verily, they look it. Judging merely by their general style, and without other evidence, one might easily suspect that self-righteousness was their specialty.
I won't even look at him again because, if I do, I shall probably go over and pull his nose." This particular form of discretion did not appear to be quite to Mr. Marchmont's liking, for he took the precaution of insisting that Miss Bellingham and I should sit on the farther side of his client, and thus effectually separate him from his enemy. "Who's the long-nosed fellow talking to Jellicoe?" Mr.
A long-nosed man had a little group about him, and he was telling some story over and over again; and another man, little and fat and wide-eyed, sought to capture the long-nosed man's audience with some relation in which a key figured. "... and it was revealed to me that there'd been something that very afternoon," the long-nosed man was saying.
That's the most importance. Of course we don't want his mine or his money. Didn't he tell his last name?" "No, sir. But he gave me the money, and he gave me the mine. He " but Charley was interrupted by a resounding knock on the front door. "See who that is," bade his father. "I'll lay these things away." When Charley opened the front door, the long-nosed man stood there, on the threshold.
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