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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Weak as they may be in many things, I am a Custis," Vesta spoke, with pale scorn. "I would not drag my name through the tobacco-stained lobbies of Annapolis to wear the crown of Josephine. The word I gave, in pity of my parents, to the man who is now my husband, to become his wife, I would not take back to my dying day, unless he first denied his word.
Carmena cast a significant glance toward Elsie, who had ventured back to renew the fire in her oven. "How about Cochise getting out of hand? All the time it's harder to hold him. He's beginning to bristle up even to you." Slade's tobacco-stained teeth showed in a grin of contemptuous indifference. "Bah. I'll pull his head off if he gits sassy, and he knows it." "Of course.
The other's wooden face relaxed so far as to show two tobacco-stained fangs, and, without rising, he held out a great red hand, of the size and shape of a moderate spade. "Why, Captain Ephraim," cried Amos in English, "who ever would have thought of finding you here? De Catinat, this is my old friend Ephraim Savage, under whose charge I came here."
His tobacco-stained teeth showed behind the lifted lips. "If young ladies will insist on running away with officers of mine " "I didn't. Ask the men. I fought. See where I bit his hand," she protested, fighting against hysterical fears. "So? But Señor Harrison says you were engaged to him." "I hate him. I've found him out. I'd rather die than "
"Where but in my home?" "Blood of the devil!" Pablo slapped his thigh and grinned in the knowledge that the last of the Farrels, having come home, had decided to waste no time in assuming his natural position as the master of the Rancho Palomar. "We have oranges," he began, enumerating each course of the forthcoming meal on his tobacco-stained fingers.
Once Carol followed him and found the coarse, tobacco-stained, unimaginative old man lying on the snow of the grave, his thick arms spread out across the raw mound as if to protect her from the cold, her whom he had carefully covered up every night for sixty years, who was alone there now, uncared for. The elevator company, Ezra Stowbody president, let him go.
"Cut out the pantomime and disgorge the information, for the love of heaven," Parker pleaded. "He peench" Pablo's voice rose to a pseudo-feminine screech "the cheek of" he whirled upon Mrs. Parker and transfixed her with a tobacco-stained index finger "Señorita Parker, so help me, by Jimmy, eef I tell you some lies I hope I die pretty queeck." Both the Parkers stared at the old man blankly.
There came the faint sound of creaking leather as their horses moved up the hill. The outlaw waited till they were out of hearing before he crept into the open. Across the face of the slope he cut obliquely, working always toward higher ground. His lips were drawn back so that the tobacco-stained teeth showed in a snarl of savage rage.
"Didn't he say anything?" she demanded sharply. "Oh, well, yes, he say sometheeng. He say: 'Well, I'bedam! Then that leetle smile he don' have for long time come back to Don Miguel's face and hee's happy like one baby. I don' understand those boy ontil I see thees business" Pablo wiggled his tobacco-stained thumb and forefinger "then I know sometheeng!
The irrepressible satisfaction conveyed by the wide display of tobacco-stained teeth, by the twinkle in the hard, honest eyes called up a queer, rueful grimace to the other man's face. "Do you know, Curwen," he said, "that you brought me the wrong young lady last night?" The sailor jumped back in amazement.
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