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Head-hunting, cannibal beast of a human that was as much ape as human, nevertheless Old Ngurn had, according to his lights, played squarer than square. Ngurn was in himself a forerunner of ethics and contract, of consideration, and gentleness in man. No, Bassett decided; it would be a ghastly pity and an act of dishonour to cheat the old fellow at the last.
'Oh, it can't be true, she cried. 'It's infamous. Oh, Alec, Alec, Alec... O God, what shall I do. Alec held himself upright. He set his teeth, and his heavy jaw seemed squarer than ever. There was a great sternness in his voice. 'I tell you that whatever I did was inevitable. Lucy flushed at the sound of his voice, and anger and sudden hatred took the place of all other feelings.
As they sat down again together, she noticed, too, his strong delicate hand in its snowy ruff, for he was always perfectly dressed, as it lay on his knee; and again thought of Hubert's browner and squarer hand. "We were talking, Mistress Isabel, about the play, and the new theatres. I was at the Blackfriars' only last week. Ah! and I met Buxton there," he went on, turning to his mother.
She shut her eyes a moment for reflection, and then decided: "Oh yes certainly squarer not a doubt of it!" Mr. Pellew formed an image in his mind, of this lady fifteen years ago, with its eyes shut. He did not the least know why he did so. "Torrens goes on like that," he continued. "Makes you laugh sometimes! But what I was going to say was this.
Three days later, by the early train which leaves the state capital at an unheard-of hour in the morning, a young man arrived in Brampton. His jaw seemed squarer than ever to the citizens who met the train out of curiosity, and to Mr. Dodd, who was expecting a pump; and there was a set look on his face like that of a man who is going into a race or a fight. Mr.
Alice cried and there indeed they were to be heard bumping and banging in the little hall. The door opened and Peter and Clare, radiant with happiness, appeared. They stood in the doorway, side by side, Clare in a little white hat and grey travelling dress and Peter browner and stronger and squarer than ever. All these people filled the little room. There was a crackling fire of conversation.
He was getting bigger and squarer, and his round freckled face was growing into a smaller copy of his father's. He walked up to Evelina and held out the flowers. "They blew off the cart and the fellow said I could keep 'em. But you can have 'em," he announced. Ann Eliza rose from her seat at the sewing-machine and tried to take the flowers from him.
The desperado told his story: "Jest got a bead on him had him sure pop never see a squarer mark when somebody mounted me pitched me clean out of my hole." "Who?" demanded Coronado, a rim of white showing clear around his black pupils. "Dunno. Didn't see nobody. 'Fore I could reload and git in it was gone." "What the devil did you stop to reload for?" "Stranger, I allays reload."
'Hanger on and oyster in love, promptly answered Edgar. 'Honest Polly has the most comical look of anxious coyness on her jolly face, and holds her elbows squarer than ever; and a few paces off stands Montezuma, magnificent and melancholic; and Edgar assumed the posture. 'Melancholy, no wonder, said the conscious beauty; 'Edgar he must be over head and ears in debt.
I found Simon, sure enough, in the lane, seated in his cart, and his face looked squarer and grimmer even than usual. "Oh, Peter!" said he, gripping my hand, "it be come at last Gaffer be goin'." "Going, Simon?" "Dyin', Peter. Fell downstairs 's marnin'. Doctor says 'e can't last the day out sinkin' fast, 'e be, an' 'e be axin' for 'ee, Peter.
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