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Updated: June 19, 2025
Her thought was to protect the captain of the Seamew from being sucked into the whirlpool which she clearly beheld beside her path. Save Tunis! It must be done. This little, inconsequential, weak-minded, loose-lipped girl must not be allowed to wreck Tunis Latham's life.
Throngs of gowned men, crooked, bearded, filthy, vulture-eyed, crowded upon each other in a narrow public place, talking in quick, shrill accents, gesticulating, with hands and arms and heads and bodies, laughing, chuckling, chattering, hook-nosed and loose-lipped, grasping fat purses in lean fingers, shaking greasy curls that straggled out under caps of greasy fur, glancing to right and left with quick, gleaming looks that pierced the gloom like fitful flashes of lightning, plucking at each other by the sleeve and pointing long fingers and crooked nails, two, three and four at a time, as markers, in their ready reckoning, a writhing mass of humanity, intoxicated by the smell of gold, mad for its possession, half hysteric with the fear of losing it, timid, yet dangerous, poisoned to the core by the sweet sting of money, terrible in intelligence, vile in heart, contemptible in body, irresistible in the unity of their greed the Jews of Prague, two hundred years ago.
The sullen countenance of her mistress flashed again into wrath. 'Did I not forbid you, cried Aurelia, 'to converse with those women? And you dare repeat to me their loose-lipped chatter. I am too familiar with you; go and talk with your kind; go! Mutteringly the woman went apart. The mistress, alone, fell into a long weeping.
"You don't want those two sticks of juniors at our private practice do you?" "Not so you could notice them. You won't have to play a trio. The coach will make four and " Leslie paused. "I shall make a fifth. I need the exercise. The coach needs the money. Besides, I propose to hire a hall." Joan and Natalie tittered at this last. Leslie smiled in her loose-lipped fashion.
His string-coloured moustache was brushed up from a loose-lipped mouth, and he showed bad teeth when he smiled. "The signorina speaks Italian?" "Oh, yes." "Ah, does she come from London?" "I had no settled home in England." "Ah! The sun never shines there?" She laughed. "Not as it does here," she admitted. "Where is my shoe?" "It was yours then?" he said with an attempt at playfulness.
As Joel passed him, he was still looking back at the group of children now jeering him from a safe distance, his eyes bright for the moment, and his face lighted with a weak, loose-lipped smile. "Who is that fellow, Bishop?" he asked of his host for the night, a few moments later, when he dismounted in front of the cabin.
The minister's grave, rugged, and deeply lined face smoothed itself and shed ten years at least; in the eyes that I had seen wet with noble tears a laughing devil now lurked, while his strong mouth became a loose-lipped, devil-may-care one.
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