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He rose to his feet a rugged-faced old man with long and thick white hair which fell on his shoulders and smiled at Marco while his eyes were still wet. "You have passed from one country to another with the message?" he said. "You were under orders to say those four words?" "Yes, Father," answered Marco. "That was all? You were to say no more?" "I know no more.
A Frenchman, despite his unusual intellectual power, he was not wholly emancipated from the la petite femme tradition, which will never be outmoded in Paris while Paris hums with life, and, therefore, when he was informed that he was to take in to dinner the tall, solidly built, big-waisted, rugged-faced woman, whom he had been observing from a distance ever since he came into the drawing-room, he felt that he was being badly treated by his hostess.
The fine brick house and range of smart wooden buildings, the costly implements, which included a gasoline tractor-plow, all indicated prosperity, and George recognized that the rugged-faced man beside him had made a marked success of his farming.
No letter or message had ever passed between us. I had followed the course of his fame, and felt happy that I had once known him. Returning to my lodgings, during a sojourn in Washington, I was told I had had a visitor, a man well on in years, plain in attire, and rugged-faced. The card he left bore the name "Simon Newcomb."
She was a tall, rugged-faced North Country dame, not very smooth of speech, and she returned his salute with somewhat rough courtesy, demanding as she sprang off her horse with little aid, "Lives my wench still?" "Yes, madam, she lives, and the leech trusts that she will yet be healed." "Ah! Methought you would have sent to me if aught further had befallen her.
During the months Erik Dorn had been working on the staff of "the New Opinion an Organ of Liberal Thought," he had encountered Lockwood frequently a dark-haired, rugged-faced man with a drawling, high-pitched masculine voice. Dorn liked him. He talked in the manner of a man carefully focusing objects into range. Lockwood was aware he had gotten under the skin of things. He talked that way.
"I suppose you're trying to get at the bottom of the mystery of why my wife brought that Selim woman " "Don't call her 'that Selim woman', Peter!" Lois Dunlap interrupted with more sharpness than Dundee had ever seen her display. "You never liked the poor girl, were never just to her " "Well, it looks as if my hunch was correct, doesn't it?" the stocky, rugged-faced man retorted.
Let it be remembered that Dino felt towards this rugged-faced, stern-voiced priest as loving as a son feels towards a wise father. His affections were strong; and he had few objects on which to expend them.
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