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Updated: June 12, 2025
There they troop up the Sacred Way, the shock-headed, wool-draped, beak-nosed Romans; there they stand together in groups at the corner of Saturn's temple; there the half-naked plebeian children clamber upon the pedestals of the columns to see the sights, and double the men's deep tones with a treble of childish chatter; there the noble boy with his bordered toga, his keen young face, and longing backward look, is hurried home out of the throng by the tall household slave, who carries his school tablets and is answerable with his skin for the boy's safety.
The sensation was tremendous. None of the nine had ever heard the like before. And yet, such was the dominating energy of their commander, it bridged the gap for them all; instantly they saw that his idea was the best possible. "The only question, of course sir is the matter of means." The shock-headed man spoke with immense respect. The others looked as though they envied him his nerve.
For Billy contributed money, birth, breeding, and position to augment Honey's initiative, enterprise, audacity, and charm. Billy Fairfax offered other contrasts quite as striking. On his physical side, he was shapelessly strong and hopelessly ugly, a big, shock-headed blond.
He was a wild shock-headed looking animal, whose profusion of red hair covered and obscured his features, which were otherwise only characterised by the extravagant joy that affected him at the sight of my guide. In my experience I have met nothing so absolutely resembling my idea of a very uncouth, wild, and ugly savage, adoring the idol of his tribe.
The shock-headed man, clattering over the rounded stones in wooden shoes, made to fit by the insertion of straw around his naked feet, no sooner heard him name Herr Daniels as the one expecting him, than he bade him welcome in a cordial tone which his surly face had not presaged. "I suppose he is asleep," he said, "but he left word that he was to be aroused at any hour on your coming.
"Oh, here's a picture of that printer," she cried, picking up one which showed the interior of an old-fashioned printing office, with a Washington hand-press and a shock-headed printer's devil sitting on a high stool, his face and shirt-front bespattered with ink. "That looks just like him. Why, why, Mr. Falkner, you've torn that picture! What will Helen Mayfield say?"
What would you be like, do you think, Olly, if I had to do all the housework, and cook the dinner, and mind the baby, and there was no nurse to wash your face and hands for you?" "I should get just like shock-headed Peter," said Olly, shaking his head gravely at the idea.
In their careless luxury they do not notice how should they? the smoky fire in the barren corner, or the shock-headed children staring at the equipages over the hatch at the barn. Within a mile there is a similar fire, which by day is not noticeable, because the spot is under a hedge two meadows back from the road.
You may make use of my name," he added proudly, "Bob, boots at the 'Lion. She be a haunt o' mine, and she minds them that come from me perticklerly." Not doubting that the purest philanthropy actuated these counsels, I thanked my shock-headed friend, and asked carelessly to whom the park belonged. "To Muster Trevanion, the great parliament man," answered the Boots.
Lyon cut close his auburn hair, shaved off his moustache, and donned a gray wig and a gray beard, without the slightest remorse. A very few minutes sufficed to complete their disguise, and they stood forth Lyon and Sybil transformed into a gray old farmer and a shock-headed country girl. "And now, about these housekeeping articles that we must leave here?
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