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But yonder stands a handsome girl and my condition mortifies me so that I could slink off to the mews for shame and lie on straw with the hostlers." There was, I knew, something genuine in his pretense of hurt vanity, even under the merry mask he wore; but I only laughed.
Barradine's horses and carriages. This proved to be true. Sauntering up and down, and lurking at corners on the side street, Dale waited and watched. Always seeming to be strolling away from the house, but glancing back over his shoulder now and then, he saw Mr. Barradine's brougham come out of the mews and stand at Mr. Barradine's door. No luggage was brought down the steps: Mr.
Idleness, drink, disease the loss of shame, of self-respect, of manners the sense of something vital gone for ever all these fatal things stared out upon her, from his slippery emaciated face, his borrowed clothes, his bullying voice the scent on him of the mews in which he lived! She covered her face with her hands and cried a little.
She was then within a few days of her sixteenth birthday, a slight figure in a riding habit, rather shorter than the average height for her age, in a black bowler hat from under which her fine rippling dark hair cut square at the ends was hanging well down her back. The delightful Charley mounted again to take the two horses round to the mews. Mrs.
It was a little box-like square, hardly forty paces across, on three sides of which small squat houses sat closely with a quarrelling air, as if each had to broaden its shoulders and press out its elbows for fear of being squeezed out by its neighbours and knocked backwards into the mews.
There is always a fact at the bottom, lying under a superstructure of fiction, truth enough to make the pursuit worth following. Talbot did not live in the Cave, but fled there occasionally for concealment. He had no hawks with him, but bred them in his own mews on the Elk River. The birds seen in after times were some of this stock, and not the solitary pair they were supposed to be.
He did not answer at once, and he felt her look at him quickly, anxiously, as though she had felt him shrink back into himself. She heard something in his silence that he did not want her to hear. He put his head down to the wind again, hiding a white, hard face. "Oh, yes, and we still live in two rooms over a garage in Drayton Mews.
It was true that the other end was close to a slum, and there was a mews across the way, but these were small drawbacks compared to the social advantages. Sherryman Street was full of gaunt, narrow houses, with prim fronts and narrow railed windows, let in segments, flats, and bachelor apartments. Number 10 was as like its fellows as one drab soul resembles another.
One bright September morning, old Raoul was busy in the mews where he kept his hawks, grumbling all the while to himself as he surveyed the condition of each bird, and blaming alternately the carelessness of the under-falconer, and the situation of the building, and the weather, and the wind, and all things around him, for the dilapidation which time and disease had made in the neglected hawking establishment of the Garde Doloureuse.
Beyond its threshold stretched ten feet or more of covered passageway, whose entrance framed an oblong glimmering with light. A draught of fresh air smote their faces. Behind them a door banged. "Where does this open?" "On the mews," she informed him. "The mews!" He stared in consternation at the pallid oval that stood for her face. "The mews! But you, in your evening gown, and I "
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