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As they stepped outside, the door of an adjacent cabin opened, framing an angular, sharp-featured woman, who, catching sight of the girl emerging from Glenister's state-room, paused with shrewdly narrowed eyes, flashing quick, malicious glances from one to the other. They came later to remember with regret this chance encounter, for it was fraught with grave results for them both.
Murgatroyd, a sharp-featured woman whose wits had been sharpened by a ten years' daily acquaintance with poverty, came out of the shop into the parlour and looked searchingly at her husband. "What did them fellows want?" she demanded. "I knew one of 'em Prydale, the detective. Now what's up, Reuben? More trouble?" Murgatroyd hesitated a moment.
Neither of the two men, waiting in the silent house, underestimated the importance of the coming interview. The night was already far spent, and the expected visitor still delayed. At length the pale secretary appeared at the door to announce his coming. Gard rose from his seat, and extended a welcoming hand to gray-haired, sharp-featured District Attorney Field.
It is the magical sympathy which displays itself more powerfully in the universe, and among human beings, than any other force." "That is just what remains to be proved," was the reply. But as the other declared in all confidence, "And I can prove it," and was proceeding to do so, Serapion's companion, a stunted, sharp-featured little Syrian, caught sight of Alexander.
Flexen questioned Holloway at length, and learned that James Hatchings was a man of uncommonly violent temper; that it had been a matter of debate in the servants' hall whether his furies or those of their dead master were the worse. Then he dismissed Holloway, and sent for Jane Pittaway. A small, sharp-eyed, sharp-featured young woman, she was quite clear in her story.
Men used to the blunt methods of unadulterated human nature are prone to be sceptical of the motives which underlie what they tersely define as "chin-oil." He, a slim, long-limbed man, with a sharp-featured face and shifty eyes, who said his name was Tap, lingered round the bar as the diggers trooped in, and smiled and cringed as he heard the order given to "Fill 'em up, fill 'em all up."
"Perhaps something like this is what you are looking for?" she remarked politely, but firmly. The customer, an acidulous, sharp-featured, showily dressed person the sort, Gabriella decided, who would enjoy haggling over a bargain regarded the offered hat with a supercilious and guarded manner, the true manner of the haggler.
"What's the matter?" said Julian. But she only shook her head, with the peevish persistence of weak obstinacy, and continued vaguely to weep as one worn down by chill circumstance. Julian turned his eyes from her to the coffee-stall, in which the sharp-featured youth now negligently leant, well satisfied with the custom he had secured.
Stroke by stroke, as the words and facts were beguiled from him, all that was futile and quarrelsome in the sharp-featured priest sank out of sight; the face glowed with inward light; the stature of the man seemed to rise; the angel in him unsheathed its wings. Suddenly the story of the slums that Mr.
"Hey, Ellen! Come out heah," called her father. Ellen left her work and went outside. A stranger had ridden in with her father, a young giant whose sharp-featured face appeared marked by ferret-like eyes and a fine, light, fuzzy beard. He was long, loose jointed, not heavy of build, and he had the largest hands and feet Ellen bad ever seen.
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