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Updated: May 13, 2025
Even at that early hour groups of the gentlemen who made our laws were scattered about the lobby of the Potts House, standing or seated within easy reach of the gaily coloured cuspidors that protected the marble floor: heavy-jawed workers from the cities mingled with moon-faced but astute countrymen who manipulated votes amongst farms and villages; fat or cadaverous, Irish, German or American, all bore in common a certain indefinable stamp.
Mohammed Ali Khan is found to be rather a moon-faced individual under thirty, who, together with his subordinate officials, are occupying tents in a large garden. Here, during the summer, they dispense justice to applicants for the same within their jurisdiction, and transact such other official business as is brought before them.
And she wept; she wept, and I kissed her tears away. "To please her I waited until 'A Dream at Dawn' was finished. With the finish of the picture, finished also his dream of dawn the moon-faced one's." Tcheriapin laughed, and lighted a fresh cigarette. "Can you believe that a man could be so stupid? He never knew of my existence, this big, red booby.
The latter, already gloved, had risen and was coolly surveying the room. "Tiens!" she said, "there is the youthful brother of our red-haired novice, now. He sees us and he's coming to inflict himself with another moon-faced creature. Shall we bolt?" Alixe turned and stared at Gerald, who came up boyishly red and impetuous: "How d'ye do, Mrs. Ruthven; did you get my note? How d'ye do, Mrs.
"The Childress Barber College" read the neatly lettered sign above the door. Maya's landlady, moon-faced Mrs. Chan, had pointed out Oxvane Childress to her as he left the building one day: a big man, comfortably stomached, with a heavy brown beard which, even at that distance, she could see was shot with gray. As innocent as you please.
The sight so late in the day was an unusual one, for in all the years that I have called at the Bank ten, now no, eleven since we first knew each other Peter had seldom failed to be ready for our walk uptown when the old moon-faced clock high up on the wall above the stove pointed at four. "I thought there was something up!" I cried. "What is it, Peter balance wrong?"
And Christie's thoughts went wandering away into the dim, sweet past when she, a happy child, lived with loving parents in a different world from that. Lost in these tender memories, she sat till the old moon-faced clock behind the door struck twelve, then the visions vanished, leaving their benison behind them.
The quaint Noah's arks, the woolly dogs and the mewing cats the moon-faced dolls. "I don't see how you have made them all." "Many of them were made years ago, Fräulein, and I have kept them for remembrance, but many of them are new. When my son told me that it was hard for you to get toys, I gathered around me a few old friends who learned their trade in Nuremberg. We have done much in a few days.
"An' 't will take more 'n you an' that moon-faced lout to put them things on the man, or I'm much mistaken." He went indoors while the labourers laughed, and the younger constable blushed at the insult. "How do 'e like that, Peter Lamacraft?" asked a labourer. "No odds to me," answered the policeman, licking his hands nervously and looking at the door.
He would raise his eyes and find the great moon-faced spectacles fixed upon him with a beseeching, reproachful glare in the light of them. This would irritate him intensely. He would say: "You'll know me next time, Mary." She would blush crimson and then, with trembling mouth, answer: "I wasn't looking." "Yes, you were." "No, I wasn't."
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