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The outlaw, the loafer, the drunkard, the ruffian, the gambler, and the trickster far outnumbered the stern-faced men of affairs. When the balance turns the other way the frontier disappears. Mingling with these was a pale-faced invalid now and then, with the well-appointed new arrivals from the East. "What are we waiting for, Bev?" I asked, as the street filled with men.
Come, and be swift and silent." We crept out of the chapel, Yva leading, and along the circle of the great dome till we reached the gates. Here I glanced back and perceived that Oro, looking unutterably small in that vastness, looking like a dead man, still lay outstretched before the stern-faced, unanswering Effigy which, with all his wisdom, he believed to be living and divine.
They prefer a solemn and unsmiling face invariably. It's the latter that produces chocolates and sudden presents; it's the stern-faced sort that play hide-and-seek or stand on their heads. The Smilers are bored at heart. They mean to escape at the first opportunity. And the children never catch their sleeves or coattails to prevent them going.
"I'm all right," he said "poor little mate!" They did not speak again until they were nearly home where, ahead, Brownie waited, her kind eyes red; while every man about the homestead was near the gate, a stern-faced, angry group that talked in savage undertones. Murty came forward as Jim lifted Norah down. "Miss Norah," he said. "Miss Norah, dear sure I'd sooner "
The stern-faced stranger grinned appreciatively. "You are not the fellows who came in at State Line the other day, are you?" "Ye -yes, we're the bu -bu -bunch." "Oh, fudge!" groaned the stranger. "And to think I've been to all this trouble to round up a bunch of tenderfeet." The man thrust his revolver into its holster with a grunt of disgust. "I'm Withem," he snapped. "So am I," answered Chunky.
He dared not even cry out. Hugh Johnstone groaned as his eyes turned from the woman, now laughing him to scorn, to the stern-faced Frenchman, who was covering the baffled assailant with the grim Lefacheux revolver. "Send this man away. Let us talk, Alixe," muttered the astounded Johnstone. Then a mocking laugh rang out in the room. "I am in no hurry now. I can wait.
His name is John Britton, but it's never anything but 'Dave' and 'Jack' between the two; they're almost like two boys together." Darrell wondered what manner of man this might be who could transform his silent, stern-faced host into anything boy-like, but he said nothing. "To see them together you'd wonder at their friendship, too," continued Mrs. Dean, "for they're noways alike.
When we bumped upon the 'dogs' at the bottom, I was tossed a foot upwards with the stern-faced others, and then lay among them in the eight-foot space without consciousness.
By the altar, watching all, sat a stern-faced monk, the confessor of the Caesars and of the Nobilissimi, who was put there to spy upon them. I followed the rite to its end, observing these unhappy prisoners seeking from the mystery of their faith the only consolation that remained to them.
The man gave it eagerly: "Lord, sir," said he, grinning ingratiatingly, "you did Tom up in proper style and no mistake." Stern-faced, Jessamy turned, and, stooping above his prostrate and still unconscious antagonist, dashed the ale into his bloody face, whereupon Tom groaned and stirred feebly.
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