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"I believe that I remember it," he said; "you were a mournful-looking object in a very soiled pinafore and most untidy hair." "I had been out on the cliffs," she reminded him, "where I am taking you now. If you are going to make unkind remarks about my hair, I think that I had better fetch a hat." "Pray don't leave me," he answered. "I should certainly lose my way.
"No, only I believe it is they that make the face so sorrowful." "Very like. You generally see just such big mournful-looking eyes in the faces of people that are called octoroons." "What?" cried the Captain, dropping the picture in his surprise. "Just so," Jim answered, picking it up and dusting it carefully before restoring it to its place in his pocket-book.
So quick was the revulsion of feeling, I had not time to check her triumph by reproof; ere I could contract my brows to a frown she had become serious and almost mournful-looking. "Thank you, sir," said she, rising. There was gratitude both in her voice and in the look with which she accompanied it.
Like almost all Persian towns and villages, Aradan has evidently occupied a much larger area at one time than it does at present; and the mournful-looking ruins of mosques, gateways, walls, and houses are scattered here and there over the plain for a mile before reaching the present limits of habitation.
I have searched everywhere, but I have never been able to find the least sign of that lovely clearing. It is not amongst the roses, nor the lilies, nor the violets. 'Perhaps it is hidden somewhere away amongst those mournful-looking flowers, where you showed me the figure of a boy standing with his arm broken off. 'No, no, indeed.
"Never mind," I said, "I want to get you home, to say nothing of hearing how you came out with your pigs." As we approached the house, a mournful-looking woman came to the door. She was evidently astonished at his enthusiasm. I suppose she thought he had at length discovered his gold mine!
In the days of their glory they were mosaicked with blue, green and yellow glazed tiles; but nothing now remains but a few mournful-looking patches of blue, surviving the ravages of time and decay.
He took one of the brats on his arm, and went off telling a variety of lies to his old woman who was complaining. There were other workmen also, mournful-looking fellows, who carried in their clinched fists the pay for the three or five days' work they had done during a fortnight, who reproached themselves with their own laziness, and took drunkards' oaths.
On one side the observer is jostled by a liveried servant all silver braid and bright buttons, and on the other by an Arab in loose white robe and scarlet turban; now by a woman with her face half-concealed beneath her yasmak, and now by one scarce clothed at all; by jaunty Greeks in theatrical costume, and cunning Jews with keen, searching eyes; by tempting flower-girls, and by shriveled old crones who importune for alms; by Franks, Turks, and Levantines; by loaded donkeys and lazy, mournful-looking camels a motley group.
But my poor hair was very heavy with the pomade the wretched man had put on it, and it was full of the partings he had made for the creation of the sausages. It fell now in mournful-looking, greasy flakes round my face. I shook my head for five minutes in mad rage. I then succeeded in making the hair more loose, and I put it up as well as I could with a couple of hair-pins.
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