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"It's only Bart," cried Deborah, casting a fierce look in the direction of the slim, sharp-faced young man, "and if he was to talk I'd take his tongue out. That I would. I'm a-training him to be my husband, as I don't hold with the ready-made article, and married he shall be, by parsing and clark if he's a good boy and don't talk of what don't matter to him."
Ralston presided at the tea-table beside her. She looked the ghost of her former self, and for a moment though he had visited her in bed only that morning, Tommy was rudely startled. "Great Jupiter!" he ejaculated. "How ill you look!" She smiled at his exclamation, while his small, sharp-faced companion pricked up attentive ears. "Do people look like that when they're going to die?" she asked.
The lay brother obeyed these contradictory commands in the way he judged most seemly he removed the carcass of the half-sacked capon, and placed two goblets beside the stoup of Bourdeaux. At the same instant entered Father Eustace. He was a thin, sharp-faced, slight-made little man, whose keen grey eyes seemed almost to look through the person to whom he addressed himself.
Cassidy had piled all the old boards, boxes and rubbish she could find, to obstruct the view to the town, of her too ambitious neighbour. "Now, what do you think of that?" cried Madame. "Isn't she the malicious little soul?" "Good day, Mrs. Kent, and how are you to-day?" "Good day, Mrs. Adam," from a sharp-faced neat woman, sitting at the doorway of the barricaded house, knitting rapidly.
But Letty avoided Maxwell when she could; nor would he willingly have been left alone with this thin, sharp-faced girl whose letter to him had been like the drawing of an ugly veil from nameless and incredible things. He was sorry for her; but in his strong, deep nature he felt a repulsion for her he could not explain; and to watch Marcella with her amazed him.
Taynton, like his laugh, was comfortable and middle-aged. Solicitors are supposed to be sharp-faced and fox-like, but his face was well-furnished and comely, and his rather bald head beamed with benevolence and dinner. "My dear boy," he said, "and it is your birthday I cannot honour either you or this wonderful port more properly than by drinking your health in it."
If you have any bear, mink, muskrat or fox you will find these men at the store until Wednesday, or you can apply to Francois Paradis of Mistassini who is with them. They have plenty of money and will pay cash for first-class pelts." His news finished, he descended the steps. A sharp-faced little fellow took his place.
The two men shook hands, and the new-comer seated himself in front of Hillyard. "You will take coffee and a cigar?" Hillyard asked in Spanish, and gave the order to the waiter. The two men talked of the heat, the cinematograph theatres at the side of the Plaza, the sea-bathing at Caldetas, and then the sharp-faced man leaned forward. "Ramon says there is no truth in the story, señor."
At half-past seven on the morning of Saturday, June the twenty-first, there drew up before it a long, low two-seater car. The landlord, a sharp-faced little man with kindly eyes and a shrewd mouth, came to the door. "Looks like you've been travelling all night, sir," he remarked pleasantly. "It looks right," said Dick Bellamy. "I want a house called The Myrtles."
And plenty of trials, poor fellow, he had for his fortitude. His master, a small stationer in a small country town, to whom Stephen was bound apprentice for five years, with a salary barely sufficient to keep him in clothes, was a little, spare, sharp-faced man, who seemed to have worn himself away with continual fretfulness and vexation.
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