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Updated: May 28, 2025
Starr remembered now that she had turned and spoken to a sulky-faced messenger boy who was sitting slumped down on the curve of his back with his tightly buttoned tunic folded up to his armpits so that his hands could burrow to the very bottom of his pockets. He had looked up, muttered something, reluctantly removed himself from the chair, and started away. The boy, too, had the Mexican look.
Despite its uninviting exterior, I hurried forward, and mounting the three worn steps pushed open the door. I now found myself in a room of somewhat uninviting aspect, though upon the hearth a smouldering fire was being kicked into a blaze by a sulky-faced fellow, to whom I addressed myself: "Can I have some breakfast here?" said I. "Why, it's all according, master," he answered, in a surly tone.
"Will you, dear? Will you help us out?" she asked. "Oh, Miss Laura! Do you really mean it?" murmured Janet Steele, her full pink cheeks actually becoming white she was so much in earnest. "Of course we mean it," Jess Morse said practically. "And glad to have you." "I don't know " Janet looked for a moment at the sulky-faced Lily Pendleton. Jess immediately pulled that young girl forward.
"That's so, John," returned David Bright, who sat beside him, and, having already drained several bumpers of the fiery fluid, had quite got over his troubles. "You an' I are of the same mind, John; nevertheless you're a great sulky-faced humbug for all that!" "What d'ee mean by that?" demanded Gunter, who was becoming rapidly drunk and quarrelsome.
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