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Hodges, a short, squat man with a prize-fighter's throat, chest, and shoulders and a wide, thin-lipped mouth, leaned forward in dirty shirt-sleeves, chewing at a moist cigar-stump. "Hello, stranger," he offered offhandedly. "What's the word?" "Know Blenham, don't you?" asked Steve quietly. "Works for old man Packard." "Sure, I know him. What about him?" "Seen him lately?" "Ten minutes ago. Why?
His flower among grass-blades for a head looking studiously down, she was his fountain of wisdom as well, in the assurance she gave him of the wisdom of his choice. But Madge had put up the 'prize-fighter's lass, by way of dolly defence, to cover her amazed confusion when the proposal of this well-liked gentleman to a girl such as she sounded churchy.
My letter to Alixe should have been delivered long ere this; my trial, no doubt, had been decided on. What had Voban done? Had he any word for me? Dear Lord! here was a mass of questions tumbling one upon the other in my head, while my heart thumped behind my waistcoat like a rubber ball to a prize-fighter's fist.
I 'eard the thump of it, and I kind o' velt somethin' vistle past me, but ven I looked there vas the Eytalian a feelin' of 'is muscles in the middle o' the stage, and as to Bob, there vern't no sign' of 'im at all no more'n if 'e'd never been." His audience was riveted by the old prize-fighter's story. "Well," cried a dozen voices, "what then, Buckhorse: 'ad 'e swallowed 'im, or what?"
Each person had taken a good hot bath with plenty of soap and water before we left the ship, and we had given each other what we called a "prize-fighter's hair-cut."
At the mention of his name, the oft-seen picture rose before my eyes a big man, anywhere between thirty-six and fifty good head, large forehead, curly hair, kind eyes, pugnacious nose, conceited smile under waxed moustache, heavy jaw, unconquerable chin, and prize-fighter's neck and shoulders. "What has Sir Marcus Lark to do with us?" "He's in Egypt in Cairo just now; and he's got our mountain."
But, then, how are you to get hold of that neck the root of which stands nearly as high as your own head in the face of two claws that go like battering-rams wrought by lightning? As well might you attempt to lay hold of a prize-fighter's nose while his active fists are darting out at you.
They had on white dresses in honour of the occasion, and the June baby was even arrayed in a low-necked and short-sleeved garment, after the manner of Teutonic infants, whatever the state of the thermometer. Her arms are like miniature prize-fighter's arms I never saw such things; they are the pride and joy of her little nurse, who had tied them up with blue ribbons, and kept on kissing them.
Sally's capacity and economy fetched the penniless philosopher a slap. 'You've taken to this lady, he said. 'She held my hand, while Kit Ines was at his work; and I was new to her, and a prize-fighter's lass, they call me: upon the top of that nobleman's coach, where he made me sit, behind her, to see the fight; and she his wedded lady that morning. A queer groom.
Then he snatched his whip from the ground, and looked at her from under his heavy brows. "I believe you're the devil!" he cried. "I wonder what the governess will think?" said she. He flared into furious rage and rushed at her with his whip. Tom Spring threw himself before him with his arms out. "It won't do, sir; I can't stand by." The man glared at his wife over the prize-fighter's shoulder.
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