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Updated: June 11, 2025
We supped that night at the Black Eagle slept there too and it was at supper we had as guests Raymond Putzeys, aged twelve, and Alfred, his father. Except crumbs of chocolate and pieces of dry bread, neither of them had eaten for two days. The boy, who was a round-faced, handsome, dirty, polite little chap, said not a word except "Merci!"
Among its bearded men was one beardless youth, a round-faced drummer boy of fifteen, the only child of the big farmhouse beside the National road. In company with him was his boyhood chum, Jim Shirley, son of the Cloverdale tavern keeper. An April sun was slipping behind the treetops, and the twilight mists were already rising above the creek.
How to bear her dignity as the wife of a man who used the million as a unit she did not know, for though she affected a reserved stateliness of manner, it did not set well on such a round-faced, impressionable little woman quite incapable of charting a course for herself.
Johnny, the elder, was dull and liverish from intemperance; and the round-faced adolescent, the news of whose fatherhood had raced the wind, was so sheep-faced, so craven, in the presence of his elders, that he could not say bo to a battledore. There was something unnatural about this fierce timidity and the doctor in Mahony caught a quick glimpse of the probable reverse of the picture.
Presently a footfall sounded in the corridor, a key was fitted in the heavy lock, and the door was opened by Brockett, the sheriff's deputy, a round-faced, jolly, little man with a shiny bald head and a closely cropped gray mustache. "You've got visitors, John!" said Brockett cheerfully, pausing in the doorway. North turned on him swiftly.
There was a picture of Madame Lebrun with Robert as a baby, seated in her lap, a round-faced infant with a fist in his mouth. The eyes alone in the baby suggested the man. And that was he also in kilts, at the age of five, wearing long curls and holding a whip in his hand.
"Encore un champion!" gayly announced the round-faced youth who had jocosely asked Max if he were a Belgian. "Voil
His eyes grew round and staring, his colour changed. 'Is she a-goin? he said, with evident excitement. Jim's Louisa shook her head. She was rather a stupid girl, heavy and round-faced, but she had nursed her grandmother well. 'No, she's asleep. Muster Drew's been here, and she dropped off while he was a-talkin to her. Mr. Drew was the Congregational minister. 'Did she send for him?
He drew out the knife reflectively. It relieved me to see that no blood dyed the blade. "Oh, Mr. Jope, I was afraid you'd stabbed him!" "'Tisn't a him, 'tis a her. I touched somebody up, and that's the truth." "Ahoy there!" said a voice immediately overhead; and we looked up. A round-faced man was gazing down on us from the tilted bulwarks. "You might ha' given us notice," he grumbled.
She was seventeen years of age, black-eyed, healthily-complexioned, round-faced, sweet-expressioned, comfortably stout, and unusually graceful for an Eskimo. Among her other charms, modesty and good-nature shone conspicuous. She was in all respects a superior counterpart of her mother, and her name was Nunaga. Nuna was small, Nunaga was smaller.
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