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As they waited for the tender that was to convey them back to the ship, Elsa observed a powerful middle-aged man, gray-haired, hawk-faced, steel-eyed, watching her companion intently. Then his boring gaze traveled over her, from her canvas-shoes to her helmet. There was something so baldly appraising in the look that a flush of anger surged into her cheeks.
The men she had known had been bound by convention to respect a woman's wishes, but even her ignorance of his type made guess that this steel-eyed, close-knit young Westerner or was he a Southerner? would be impervious to appeals founded upon the rules of the society to which she had been accustomed.
A meeting with Lady Gertrude at the moment would have been of all things the most repugnant to her. With a feeling of intense thankfulness that the thin, steel-eyed woman was nowhere to be seen, she stepped into the car and was borne swiftly down the drive.
The fort was soon crowded with refugees, wives bewailing their husbands, husbands swearing to avenge their wives, parents lamenting their children, children of a sudden made orphans, and from north and south, scores of hard-featured, steel-eyed men came to us, their rifles in their hands, to offer their services, and after a time these came to be one of the most valuable portions of our force.
Miss Merley late in her forties, steel-eyed, thin-chested, flint-faced and with hair knotted so tightly back from her high stony brow that she had to take out two hairpins to wink Miss Merley might have done it but she had no kith or kin who could have done it for her, and certainly the hand that smoothed the coat buttoned the vest, and the hand that buttoned the vest put on the collar and tie, and as for the shirt
Neither is it exactly complimentary to us that you should even suggest such a thing." With this parting comment she quitted the room, leaving Nan staring stonily out of the window. She felt helpless helpless to withstand the thin, steel-eyed woman who was Roger's mother. Nominally free, she was to all intents and purposes a prisoner at Trenby Hall till Kitty or Penelope came home.
He sat down at one of the farthest tables from us, and his eyes, glistening like blue-black steel, were fixed on us. Once at Fort Leavenworth I had watched in terror as a bird fluttered helplessly toward a still, steel-eyed snake holding it in thrall. And just at the moment when its enemy was ready to strike, Jondo had happened by and shot the snake's head off.
With such men as these in command, with that steel-eyed general on the watch energy and intellectual force personified in his keen, vivacious face the old faults of 1870 could not happen so easily again, and Germany counted without this renaissance of France.
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