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The other stood with face demoniacally impassioned, yet fading into the pasty gray of fear the fear that was the more unmanageable because it was a new emotion which had never risen to confront him before. "I knows when I've got ter knock under," he made sullen admission, at last, "an' thet time's done come now. But I hain't ther only enemy ye've got.
Morris's discreet face looked steadily and composedly at his master. "Bring the pasty," said Ralph, "and the wine." He gave the servant a sharp look, seemed to glance out across the hall for a moment and back again. There was no answering look on Mr. Morris's face, but he slipped out softly, leaving the door just ajar. Then Ralph turned to Chris again.
An account of François I and his "young Italian friends" makes mention of the visit of the king, in company with the Duchesse d'Étampes, to the studio of Serlio who was working desperately on the portico of the Cour Ovale. He found the artist producing a "melody of plastic beauty, garbed as a simple workman, his hair matted with pasty clay."
To this unflattering description, Saint-Simon adds the fact that his "large, pasty face was so covered by pimples that it looked like one large abscess." Such, then, was the repulsive lover who found favour in the eyes of the Regent's daughter, and for whom she was ready to discard all her legion of more attractive wooers.
Fifteen there were in all, making themselves merry with feasting and drinking as they sat around a huge pasty, to which each man helped himself, thrusting his hands into the pie, and washing down that which they ate with great horns of ale which they drew all foaming from a barrel that stood nigh.
Miss Marshall, Miss Peters," she said, in the tone of introduction. The other girl rose. She was tall and slender, like Jane. She had a pasty complexion and weak, reddish eyes. Her expression was somewhat plaintive and distressed irritating, too, in the long run. "Step along," called Mrs. Bates. She traversed the "office," passed into a room beyond, pushed Jane ahead of her, and shut the door.
As this woman stitched away, squinting through the steel-framed spectacles set upon her snub nose, Susan saw that she had not even good health to mitigate her lot, for her color was pasty and on her dirty skin lay blotches of dull red. Except a very young girl here and there all the women had poor or bad skins.
Reserving what remained to finish with, he asked: 'Have you got anything to eat, any of you? I'm as ravenous as a hungry wolf. Which of you was in the larder come? 'I was, brother, said Dennis, pulling off his hat, and fumbling in the crown. 'There's a matter of cold venison pasty somewhere or another here, if that'll do. 'Do! cried Hugh, seating himself on the pathway. 'Bring it out! Quick!
You should have heard Pietukh's behests! They would have excited the appetite of a corpse. "Yes," he said, sucking his lips, and drawing a deep breath, "in the first place, make a pasty in four divisions.
When they came to opening the pasty the expression of his face changed; he frowned and asked the prefect in a suspicious tone, severely and sternly: "How came these people by such a pasty as this?" "Where did you get it from?" asked the prefect of the singer. "From the banquet which the architect gave to the artists here," answered Euphorion.
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