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The third man, a sunburned farmer, with a dogged mouth overhung by a tobacco-stained mustache, assented with a nod. "There's not a better Democrat in Virginia than Nick Burr," he said. "If the party's got anything against him it had better out with it at once. He made the most successful chairman the State ever had and he's honest there's not a more honest man in politics or out."
It was on the occasion of a fair, and may perhaps have been an exception to the general rule. One thing is certain it looked very natural, and made me cotton wonderfully to these good people. There was something really homelike in a reeling, staggering crowd their shouts and uproarious songs, their boozy faces and tobacco-stained months. Every body seemed to be on a regular "bender."
Late that night he leaned across the sloppy bar of an inferior saloon in Stenton, and, with an uncertain wave of his hand, arrested the barkeeper's attention. "I'm here," he articulated thickly, "to see life, understand! And I can see it too money's power." The other regarded him with a brief, mechanical interest, a platitude shot suavely from hard, tobacco-stained lips.
Old Jelly Belly's got three bullet holes in him, but he ain't goin' to die, and he's got Chester's number. They'll hang'm on Jelly Belly's evidence. It was all in the papers. Jelly Belly shot him, too, a-hangin' by the neck on our pickets." Saxon shuddered. Jelly Belly must be the man with the bald spot and the tobacco-stained whiskers. "Yes," she said. "I saw it all.
These took a long look, first at the senior partner and then at his surroundings, after which, as if reassured by the inspection, the remainder of the face appeared a flat nose, a large mouth with a lower lip which hung down and exposed a line of tobacco-stained teeth, and finally a thick black beard which bristled straight out from the chin, and bore abundant traces of an egg having formed part of its owner's morning meal.
With a gracious, condescending air he ordered the filthy, tobacco-stained porter to take his trunk to his room. The bar-room was the only place provided for strangers. Regarding the bar with a holy horror, he got away from it as far as possible, and seated himself by the stove, on which simmered a kettle of hot water for the concoction of punches, apparently more in demand at that hotel than beds.
I'd eat you, Jim. You know that. I'd bite right into your throat an' eat you like that much beefsteak." His sunburned skin was black with the surge of blood in it, and his tobacco-stained teeth were exposed by the snarling lips. Jim shivered and involuntarily cowered. There was death in the man he looked at.
There were looks of hatred upon their unpleasant faces, and their remarks it may be believed were not complimentary. "The Yankee pigs have met their match at last," snarled one tobacco-stained peon, who had forced his way up close to Clif. "And they'll go to Havana as they wanted to," put in another, with a leer. "They were boasting they'd get there."
"Glad to death to meet up with you, missie," he grinned evilly through broken, tobacco-stained teeth. The blood drenched out of her heart. She looked at the man, silent and despairing. His presence here could mean to her nothing less than disaster. The girl's white lips tried to frame words they could not utter. "Took by surprise, ain't you?" he jeered.
He thought how he had refused to drink with Daddy Dunnigan from the smeared and cloudy glass half-filled with the raw, rank liquor, across the surface of which had trailed the tobacco-stained mustaches of the half-dozen unkempt men.
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