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"Well, I said I'd come, didn't I? And I waited," she reminded him. "Yes, and then I saw you talking to that idiotic fellow in a high collar, and I thought, 'Oh, everything be damned! So I chummed up to the pock-marked chap. He was glad enough to have me! Wants me to play poker." He buried his face, and she could scarcely hear his words. "Oh, God," he muttered, "you can see how it is!
And beside that, there was the incalculable debt for this great kindness to a sick man, for which he would always be M. de la Motte's grateful debtor! The lawyer's pock-marked face the scars still red and angry lit up with a curious mixed light of shrewdness and gratitude. Jean was somewhat moved. His castle was in ruins. But he remained noble by the old law; that was something!
He was short, pock-marked, ugly, slovenly, surly to the point of ferocity, whimsical to the brink of mania, egotistic to the environs of self-idolatry, diseased and deaf, embittered, morose all the brutal epithets you wish to hurl at him.
"It would be none the less a murder," said the pock-marked man, "if you were to be hanged after a trial in some county court. Society had been obliged to deny the privilege of committing murder to the individual and reserve it for the community. If our communal sense says you should die, the thing is neither better nor worse than if a sheriff hanged you."
He bends his long neck, and breathing loudly through his nose, makes a spoon out of a big crooked bit of wood; the other a little scraggy, pock-marked peasant with an aged face, a scanty moustache, and a little goat's beard sits with his hands dangling loose on his knees, and without moving gazes listlessly at the light.
"Oh, it was empty clean empty. You see, I didn't trust anything but food in my pack." "No. That's so. Maybe gold isn't safe in a pack?" The pock-marked face remained turned towards the glowing stove. The man's manner was quite indifferent. It suggested that he merely wished to talk. The traveller seemed to draw back into his shell at the mention of gold. A slight pause followed.
Then he spoke hurriedly to his companions, and, springing from the mule's back seized Muriel in a rough grasp. At her cry Frank ran back, forgetting his disguise. He recognised in her assailant the pock-marked officer of the Amban. The man, seeing him coming, drew a revolver; but Wargrave whipped out his pistol quicker and without hesitation shot him through the heart.
He carried a glass-screened candle, and held it somewhat above the level of his forehead which was protuberant and heavily pock-marked. Under the light he peered out at the visitor, who stood tall and stiff, with uniform overcoat buttoned to the chin, between the Ionic pillars of the portico. "Who's there?" "Lieutenant Lapenotiere, of the Pickle schooner with dispatches."
He was a stout, short man, with huge, red, carroty whiskers, and a pock-marked face, small ferretty eyes, a round knob for a nose, and thick lips, which he smacked loudly both when speaking and after eating and drinking. However, Charley seemed to hold him in a good deal of respect and awe, an honour my friend did not pay to many people.
"It didn't save me from a pretty good one on the head, Tom, did it?" "No, sar, but that was just it if it hadn't been for that knock on the head, pulling you down just that minute, that thar pock-marked fellow would have got you. As it was, he grazed your cheek, and got one of his own men killed by mistake the very fellow that hit you. There he is over there." "And who's that other, Tom?"
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