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Also, that here, in the North, Christianity and education have failed to civilize the educated ones and the converts are worse than the others." The girl's eyes darkened and the man noticed the peculiar out-thrust of the chin. He hastened to change the subject. "I am glad you have abandoned those plans. They were useless. May I now proceed with the building?" Chloe smiled.
When at last she raised her face to his, it was ashen, but her small chin was out-thrust, her eyes were like stars, and the grip of her slim hands on his shoulders was as iron. "I'm strong enough to give you anything that you want," she said quietly. She had made the supreme sacrifice; she was ready to be his friend. A sad and wistful gravity hung about their parting.
Out of the side of his eye Lennon saw the crane swing back into the other opening and the hoist rope jerk upward. He swung his rifle to that side. The top sack of corn in the barricade slewed out over the brink. It toppled and came plunging downward. Above it a dark head came into sight, half out-thrust over the top of the other sacks. Lennon fired up past the falling bag of grain.
"He knew them all, the big-wigs up in Parliament, the big-wigs on 'Change, the little duchesses in Mayfair, and they all liked him, asked him, dined him, and great Scott, they paid! Paid in hereditary jewels, or the shock to their decency when the thing came out but, poor devil, so did he!" And through it all Buller gloomed unsmiling, with out-thrust underlip.
Then stood the blind man with head out-thrust and awful arm upraised, before which Black Roger shrank and shrank to cower in the deeper shadow. Of a sudden the blind man turned and coming beside Beltane, grasped him by the mantle. "Lord," he questioned, "who is he that trembleth before the maimed and blind? who is he that croucheth yonder?"
And so with me. The life that was in me was constituted to do what my father did, and it whispered to me secretly and ambitiously of aerial paths and forest flights. At last my father joined us. He was extremely angry. I remember the out-thrust of his protruding underlip as he glared down at the wild pigs.
And the master of the Adrienne thereupon launched into a tale of piracy and treachery such, as I never had heard before. Leaning over the taffrail, his elbows out-thrust and his big hands folded, he roared the story at us in a great booming voice that at times seemed to drown the words in its own volume.
Gun barrels out-thrust from the mass, baggage was visible, and as the whale-boat drew nearer to the steamer the persons in it were seen to be tattered and gaunt, as if they had been through great hardships. The captain's boat contained a guest in United States Army uniform an officer, evidently. The captain and his guest climbed into the steamer; then the whale-boat unloaded.
The big man turned, Penfeather sprang with uplifted pistol and smote him, stunned and bleeding, to the floor, then bestriding the prostrate carcass, fronted the rest with head viciously out-thrust. "And who's next come!" says he softly, scowling from one to other of the shrinking company.
They would come waddling up from the sea, scratch a hole in the sand with their flippers, lay their eggs, cover them carefully, and with head erect and neck out-thrust waddle back. Mackay was intensely interested in all the animal life of the island and made a study of it whenever he had a chance.
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