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The twenty-third ! He was a tall, youngish man, narrow-shouldered, rather commonplace-looking, with beautiful blue eyes, and a timid, winning, deprecatory manner. I told him I was suffering from insomnia.
He was narrow-hipped, narrow-shouldered, and anaemic, while he seemed not so much oppressed by gloom as by a sweet and gentle sadness, the weight of which was as sweetly and gently borne. For an hour I had been trying to get a story out of him, but he appeared to lack imagination.
His guest this evening, in a quiet corner of the dining-room where he generally sat, was a man, ten years his junior, named Morphew: slim, narrow-shouldered, with sandy hair, and pale, delicate features of more sensibility than intelligence; restless, vivacious, talking incessantly in a low, rapid voice, with frequent nervous laughs which threw back his drooping head.
In former days the narrow-shouldered fellow had been seen near the Ortlieb house often enough, and his movements had awakened Luna's curiosity; for he had been engaged in amorous adventure even when work was still going on at the recently completed convent of St. Clare an institution endowed by the Ebner brothers, to which Herr Ernst Ortlieb added a considerable sum.
Besides what I have named, there was not another thing in that great, stone-vaulted, empty chamber but lockfast chests arranged along the wall and a corner-cupboard with a padlock. As soon as the last chain was up, the man rejoined me. He was a mean, stooping, narrow-shouldered, clay-faced creature; and his age might have been anything between fifty and seventy.
He's a good-looking fellow that Godolphin eh?" continued the earl, in the tone of a man who meant you to deny what he asserted. "Oh, beautiful!" said Lady Erpingham. "Such a countenance!" "Deuced pale, though! eh? and not the best of figures: thin, narrow-shouldered, eh eh?"
I bought it for a price from one of the clerks at the A. C. Company." "It's a shame clerks are so narrow-shouldered," she sympathized. "And you haven't told me what you think of MY outfit." "I can't," he said. "I'm out of breath. I've been living on trail too long. This sort of thing comes to me with a shock, you know. I'd quite forgotten that women have arms and shoulders.
"He has not come!" he cried for the twentieth time. "He has not come!" He moved on, and Reese Beaudin ten feet away turned and smiled at Joe Delesse with triumph in his eyes. He moved nearer. "Did I not tell you he would not find in me that narrow-shouldered, smooth-faced stripling of five years ago?" he asked. "N'est-ce pas, friend Delesse?" The face of Joe Delesse was heavy with a somber fear.
He's a good-looking fellow that Godolphin eh?" continued the earl, in the tone of a man who meant you to deny what he asserted. "Oh, beautiful!" said Lady Erpingham. "Such a countenance!" "Deuced pale, though! eh? and not the best of figures: thin, narrow-shouldered, eh eh?"
In former days the narrow-shouldered fellow had been seen near the Ortlieb house often enough, and his movements had awakened Luna's curiosity; for he had been engaged in amorous adventure even when work was still going on at the recently completed convent of St. Clare an institution endowed by the Ebner brothers, to which Herr Ernst Ortlieb added a considerable sum.
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