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On the other side, as you turn your back to the view, the promenade is overlooked by a row of tall, sober-faced hotels, the dwellings of the local aristocracy. I was very fond of the place, and often resorted to it to stimulate my sense of the picturesque.
You 've heard of me then, Moylan? So has our little friend, Gonzales, here." The sober-faced sutler merely nodded, evidently in no mood for pleasantry. "Oh, ye're all right," he said finally. "I've heard 'em say you was a fighter down round Santa Fé, an' I know it myself now. But what the hell are we goin' to do?
Women clambered down from wagon seats. Sober-faced children gathered their little arms full of wood for the belated breakfast fires; boys came down for water at the stream. The west-bound paused at the Missouri, as once they had paused at the Don. A voice arose, of some young man back among the wagons busy at his work, paraphrasing an ante-bellum air: Oh, then, Susannah, Don't you cry fer me!
"There was mighty little time to think, but I called out the two quickest words I could think of." "What did you call?" demanded the principal. "I yelled 'low bridge!" "A most idiotic expression," snorted the principal. "What on earth does it mean, anyway?" "It means to duck, sir," Prescott answered. "Duck?" retorted Mr. Cantwell, glaring suspiciously at the sober-faced young left end.
He wandered from the bank into Harry Tenison's gambling rooms Harry having sold out his livery stable to Joe Kitchen shortly before that just to look on for a little while before starting home. When Laramie did start home, Tenison had all his steer money and Laramie owed the sober-faced gambler, besides, one hundred dollars. Laramie then went to work on the range for twenty-five dollars a month.
"Look in his cell if you don't believe me." The soldier looked and then turned hack to Kennon. There was awed respect in his hard brown eyes. "You did that! to him! Man, you're a fighter," he said in an unbelieving voice. A stretcher detail manned by two sober-faced Lani females came in, loaded Douglas's body on the stretcher, and silently bore it away. "Douglas was a fool," Arleson said.
Now, if our admired hero should abandon his adventurous profession, and settle down quietly into the civilised career of an innkeeper, or village constable, or shopman, or sedate church clerk, and we chanced to meet him years after his "life on the ocean wave," it would probably be to find a sober-faced gentleman, with forehead a little bald, with somewhat of a paunch, with sturdy legs and gaiters, perhaps with a stiff stock and dignified white collar altogether a very respectable, useful citizen.
But couldn't more level ground be dug?" asked another. "Dug? Across them Utah deserts an' up them mountains? Hell! Men sure hev more sense than thet," exclaimed the third. And so they talked and argued at their tasks. The women, however, had little to say. One, the wife of the loquacious Jones, lived among past associations of happy years that would not come again a sober-faced, middle-aged woman.
Whether we look at the child, gazing in large-eyed wonder at the festival in the Church of the Holy Cross, the patient girl, trudging day by day through the quiet streets of Nantes to take her lessons, the pale student in the conservatory, the sober-faced maiden who so won all our hearts so long ago in Boston, the brilliant young woman who flashed out so suddenly into the highest walks of art, the great artist born of a wonder child, or the simple American woman, Camilla Urso, in whatever station we view her, we see the dignity and reward of honest work.
As he went out of the bare, spotless sitting-room into the bare, spotless hall, the children of the 'Home' filed past, two by two, for their afternoon walk. There were twenty-six sober-faced girls in blue cotton frocks and broad-brimmed straw hats. "They take exercise regularly, sir," said the superintendent. "We're careful with them in all ways.
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