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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Listen, they've got ole monkey-face! That's him singing out now. We'd better put our best leg forward for fear he comes after you." "If he does I shall put him back again," she said; "we were going to the Hotel Australia but I don't think I'll take my husband there. I think they mightn't like him.
Suddenly I become aware of someone touching me from behind the stone seat. I start up and turn quickly, to find my apparition of the church chattering at my back. Her restless eyes and the one white fang shine out from the shrivelled monkey-face, and the skeleton arms with wrinkled, black skin drawn loosely over the bones hold out long strings of shells.
Very far overhead, the pines occasionally whispered to one another, but below there was no movement, save when a lizard scuttled swiftly over the pine-needles, and once when an enquiring monkey-face peered at her round the red bole of a pine. It was all very restful, and Muriel was undeniably sleepy. She had ridden farther than usual with Nick that morning, and it did not take much to tire her.
He was worse than the worst madman in Bedlam when his blood was up; and even the strong, bold men of the crew used to cower before him like as the cabin-boy. And yet, mates, he was but a little, maimed man, and more than sixty years old. He had a regular monkey-face; I never saw one like it brown, and all over puckers, and working and twitching, like the sea where the tide-currents meet.
The pilot's temper had suffered as the result of his experience in the cabin, and the jeers aud laughter of the circus people had not added to his peace of mind. At intervals he would break out into a tirade of invective and threats against Teddy Tucker, who had so humiliated him. "I'll get even with that little monkey-face!
I could have given them a hint. My predictions regarding the ancestral potencies of the monkey-face were being abundantly justified. He came at once to Our Square and tackled the Little Red Doctor. "Where is she?" he asked. The Little Red Doctor assumed an air of incredulous surprise. "Have you still got that bee in your bonnet?" said he. "Where is she?" repeated the Weeping Scion.
"What are you going to do?" demanded the Circus Boy in a quiet voice. "Do?" "Yes." "I punish the monkey-face " "You will, eh?" howled Teddy, starting forward. Phil thrust his companion aside. "Go away. I will see if I can explain to him," cautioned Phil, turning to the clown again, just as the latter was making a rush at Teddy. "One moment, Mr. Diaz.
He laughed, and flicked his whip at a wizened monkey-face that peered at them round the bole of a tree. "What do you mean by the horrid part?" She hesitated. He turned his gay face to her. "Do you mean the hardships or the actual fighting?" She gave a little shudder. Even in that brilliant warmth of sunshine she was conscious of a sense of chill. "I mean the killing," she said.
I am sure that a white infant would have screamed in a most appalling way, for, as I had never taken a baby in my arms before, I held it in a very awkward manner; but the poor little black thing, wearied with its struggles on the floor, lay very passively, every now and then turning its little monkey-face up to mine, with a look of understanding and confidence which quite conciliated my good will.
There is no harm done; but there they lie, roaring, kicking, sprawling, in every attitude of comic distress, whilst Jack Rapley and Mayflower, sole authors of this calamity, stand apart from the throng, fondling, and coquetting, and complimenting each other, and very visibly laughing, May in her black eyes, Jack in his wide, close-shut mouth, and his whole monkey-face, at their comrades' mischances.
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