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Its lines were the lines of the true pirate; its wings long and sharp-cut; its beak wickedly hooked at the tip; its claws curved, for no gentle purpose, at the end of its webbed feet; its eye fierce and haughty; its uniform the color of the very stormcloud that had just passed dun and smoked cream below, and sooty above.
There was about Merlier a smell of death like the smell of sooty smoke. The stream lay shining along its wooded course; the range greenly aflame with new foliage rose into radiant space; flickers hammered on resonant, dead wood. Gordon banished the somber memory of the priest. He was conscious of a sudden excitement, a keenness of response to living like a renewal of youth.
The good abbots, who were wont to come out in the summer time to Wanley, would be at a loss to recognise their consecrated home in those sooty relics.
And I beseech you, do not let your Christian life be like that snow that is on the ground about us to-day when it first lights upon the earth, radiant and white, but day by day gets more covered with a veil of sooty blackness until it becomes dark and foul. Many of us have to acknowledge that the fervour of early days has died down into coldness.
The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drawn with Dureresque vigour and dash.
Nicholas, there exists no rule for the construction of hermits; they seem made out of all kinds of material. But Pilate attended to the matter of expiating his sin while he was alive, whereas St. Nicholas will probably have to go on climbing down sooty chimneys, Christmas eve, forever, and conferring kindness on other people's children, to make up for deserting his own.
"Why," said Douglas, "what has become of Jack? has old Sooty smelt him, and sent for him, on a short warning, to help in roasting Covenanters? or have the fairies, those fair dames of the green knowe and the grey cairn, seen and admired his proportions, and made a young 'Tam Lean' of poor Jack Johnston? Let us on and see."
"Soot!" he murmured weakly. "Soot!" "Your face is covered, my dear fellow, quite covered." "It certainly has a faintly sooty aspect, sir," said Psmith. His voice roused the sufferer to one last flicker of spirit. "You will hear more of this, Smith," he said. "I say you will hear more of it." Then he allowed Mr. Outwood to lead him out to a place where there were towels, soap, and sponges.
Under the chin, long hair, about the same colour as on the crown of the head, which should be a bright, golden tan, and not on any account intermingled with dark or sooty hairs. Hairs on the sides of the head should be very long, of a few shades deeper tan than that on the top of the head, especially about the ear-roots.
"He finished his tale while we stared at him; the circle broke into commendatory grunts, and he smiled in childlike satisfaction at the impression he had made. He leaned forward and, scrutinizing the litter of sooty pots, plunged his hand into the nearest one. "Miss Harman stumbled back into the crowd and her place was taken by a squaw.
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