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Baker's testimony he speaks of seeing in one of the riots "a big, rough-looking fellow, whom the people called 'Pat." He was the leader of the mob, and when the riot was over, "he mounted a beer keg in front of one of the saloons and advised men to go home, get their guns, and come out and fight the troops, fire on them.... The same man appeared two nights later at Whiting, Indiana, and made quite a disturbance there, roused the people up.
"Oh! she's not here," Dickie said. "Only he and his daughter, Madame de Vallorbes. You'll come?" "Oh! dear yes, I'll come, if you'll be good enough to prepare your ladies for a rough-looking customer. Don't let me keep you. Wonder what the daughter's like?" he added to himself. "The mother was a bit of a baggage."
Presently I came out into a market-place. Whistles were blowing, and there was a great hurrying of people back from the mills. The crowd gave me a momentary sense of security, and I was just about to inquire my way to the railway station when someone jostled my arm. A rough-looking fellow in mechanic's clothes was beside me. 'Mate, he whispered.
What would you have thought of Parmentier passing hours and days in manipulating a rough-looking bulb, that possessed no kind of value in the eyes of the vulgar, but which afterwards, as the potato, became the chief food of two-thirds of the population of Europe?
Then we were shown in ceremoniously, and made our bows to Maqueda, who was seated, surrounded by some of the judges and officers, among them, Prince Joshua, and talking to two rough-looking men clad in ordinary brown robes. She greeted us, and after the exchange of the usual compliments, said: "Friends, I have summoned you for this reason.
G. Selden looked at him with friendly interest. His experience, which was varied, had taught him to recognize symptoms. This nice, rough-looking chap, who, despite his rather shabby clothes, looked like a gentleman, wore an expression Jones's junior assistant had seen many a time before.
Presently a rough-looking man who had been among the wildest and most violent in his denunciation of the South said, looking at Vincent: "I see by the papers to-day that one of the cursed rebel officers who gave them the slip at Elmira is traveling in the disguise of a minister. I guess it's mighty unpleasant to know that even if you meet a parson in a train like as not he is a rebel in disguise.
"They are far more suitable for me, because I am big and rough-looking, like a boy, and you are just like a piece of thin china like that Dresden shepherdess in the drawing-room. You couldn't imagine her saying anything ugly." "Why do you always make out that you're not pretty?" asked Blanche indignantly.
Only a rough-looking man with a flushed face, whom no one knew, and who stopped on the corner and looked back as one in a dream and then went east, the way the Captain and his man had gone on their expedition personating no less exalted a personage than Santa Claus himself.
Not sufficient were to be found in the house, but that interfering Mrs. Meadows must criticise her singing. She opened the piano, determined to listen to herself and judge what truth there was in the remark. She ran over a few scales, but was interrupted by a rough-looking man shouting, "Stop that noise, and come here!
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