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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Of course we can read," replied sunken-eyes haughtily; and in fact they had been too often in jail to escape this accomplishment. The peddler looked furtively in every direction; and after this precaution pressed a spring and brought a small drawer out from the bottom of his pack. The two rogues winked at one another. Out of the drawer the peddler whipped a sealed packet.
My story has reached the most painful moment of my life, and I beseech you to hear me calmly. "Your poor mother wasted away to a skeleton; her sunken-eyes were hardly visible in their deep sockets; a livid pallor suffused her cheeks.
Meantime sunken-eyes had put his tongue to the envelope and drawn out the contents. "I'll go into the light and see what it is all about." mephistopheles left alone had hardly given his pipe two sucks ere brutus returned black with rage and spouting oaths like a whale. "Why, what is the matter?" "Matter! Didn't he sell this to me for a flash story?" "Why he didn't say so.
As regards slander, though it might seem a slight matter, it must be remembered that the savage cannot stand up for a moment again an adverse public opinion; so that to rob him of his good name is to take away all that makes life worth living. To shout out, Long-nose! Sunken-eyes! or Skin-and-bone! usually leads to a fight in Andamanese circles, as Mr. Man informs us.
"Is there plenty about the women in it?" The trader answered obliquely. "What are we obliged to keep it dark for?" the other put in, "Why of course there is." "Well!" said sunken-eyes affecting carelessness. "What do you want for it? Got sixpence, Bill?" "I sold the last to a gentleman for three-and-sixpence. But as this is the last I've got say half a crown." Sunken-eyes swore at the peddler.
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