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There would be processions of plate-bearers to the kitchen next door, where a splendid Englishwoman one of those fine square-faced, brown-eyed, cheerful souls had been toiling all day in the heat of oven and stoves to cook enough food for fifty-five hungry people who could not wait for their meals.
She stood and looked at the orderly group of boulders as the lightning intermittently revealed them. She saw where the road ran on, between two square-faced rocks. She would have to follow the road, for after all it must lead somewhere, to her father's ranch, probably.
Paul knew the house, and led his new acquaintance to a shady veranda where a polyglot waiter chipped his ice to his fancy, found him lemon, pounded sugar, fresh mint, square-faced Hollands, and syphon-water, and left the Colonel compounding in a high state of content. 'This is like home, he said, 'bar the celestial straw, the use of which these blahsted Continentals have not learned.
This was the square-faced, black-bearded, thick-set young fellow who took the candle from the window, and now advanced with it toward the hearth, holding it at an angle that caused the flame to swiftly melt the tallow, which dripped generously upon the floor. "I hev seen Eveliny do it," he said, excitedly justifying himself.
The other brother was a far different sort, and, in business, Sam thought, a much inferior man. He was a heavy, broad-shouldered, square-faced man of about thirty, who sat in the office dictating letters and who stayed out two or three hours to lunch. He sent out letters signed by him on the firm's stationery with the title of General Manager, and Narrow Face let him do it.
Nothing could shake her from that conviction. Scotland Yard, she thought, was afraid of him because he was a man of position. The square-faced superintendent who had spoken so smoothly was probably trying to shield him. But she knew. She was certain. Suppose she told all she knew? Her slim hands clenched till the nails cut her flesh, as she determined that he should pay the price of his crime.
"Very well," said the baroness, in a subdued voice; for, in spite of her will and wilfulness, this square-faced boy of mine was more than a match for her. "Very well, you will believe me another day, and now I will ask you to go, for I am tired." I cannot be interrupted by your silly questions about the exact way in which things happened.
A big, square-faced, square-framed man of twenty-eight or thirty stepped out into the car vestibule. He sprang to the ground as Miss Knowles stepped from the buckboard. She had lowered her veil, but it failed to mask the extreme brilliancy of her eyes and her quick changes of color.
A square-faced, clean-faced fellow, with a clean love of life and of Ann Elizabeth in his heart. Henry liked him. Ann Elizabeth loved him. And yet, what must have been a long-smoldering flame of fear shot up through the very core of Henry's being, excoriating. "Why, Ann Elizabeth," he kept repeating, in his slow and always inarticulate manner, "I You Mine I just never thought."
Afterwards we sit round the table on the fore-deck and tolerate the mosquitoes, and tell yarns, and I turn in with a picture in my mind, from a story of the captain's, of an East African coast, and a tramp steamer on a bar, the surf coming over her stern, and the shore lined with drunk niggers, and green boxes of square-faced Dutch gin at four shillings and sixpence the dozen, box included.
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