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Updated: May 15, 2025
The tousle-headed woman, surrounded by her copies in miniature, keeps the milk neatly, in an outer dairy, perhaps because of market requirements; but in the crazy old log-house, pigs and chickens are free comers, and the cistern from which they drink is foul.
She thought of Eugenia up in her shaded room, stretched on the chaise-longue in a thin silk room-gown, she thought of Neale and his stern eyes . . . she looked down on the dusty, tanned, tousle-headed little boy, with the bandage around his head, his one eye looking up at her pleadingly, his dirty little hand clutching at the fold of her skirt; and drearily and unwillingly she summoned herself to self-control.
In his hands was an accordion, at his side sat a collie dog, while in front of him, with his back to the fire standing with his hands behind his back in the attitude of a schoolboy repeating a lesson was a tousle-headed half-breed, whom he of the black beard was addressing in encouraging tones "Noo then, ma callant, we'll just be having that last line ower again.
It happened at the back of York Mansions. Anything that ever happened, happened there; for it is at the back of these blocks of flats that the real life is. At the front you never see anything, except an occasional tousle-headed young man smoking a pipe; but at the back, where the cooks come out to parley with the tradesmen, there is at certain hours of the day quite a respectable activity.
If the Canterbury Pilgrims, led by jolly Harry Bailey, their host, had burst out from the woods, on horseback, singing and jesting, I should not have considered their appearance an anachronism.... A tousle-headed girl-child in rompers which she was too big for, pointed me Baxter's house, the largest in the community. There seemed to be no one home when I dropped my suitcase on the front porch....
James Hardin was carrying two bubbly, squirmy, tousle-headed babies, on one arm, and a huge suitcase in the other hand, and his gray felt hat set on the back of his shock of black hair at an angle of deep desperation, though patience shone from every line of his strong, gaunt body, and I could see in the half light that there were no lines of irritation about his mouth, which Richard had said looked to him like that of the prophet Hosea, when I had shown him the picture that Father had had snapped of himself and the Crag, with their great string of quail, on one of their hunting-trips, just before Father died.
"I don't know. Here's your porridge, dear. Listen " For Wallace was shouting. Martie would go to the bedroom door, to interrogate the tousle-headed, heaving form under the bedclothes. "Say, Martie, isn't there an awful lot of noise out there?" Martie would stand silent for a moment. "You can't blame the children for chattering, Wallace."
Thomas Gilfoyle. Her soul cried out: "This is my honeymoon! I am married, married forever to that tousle-headed, bristle-jawed, brainless, heartless dub. I won't stand for it. I won't! I won't!" She wanted to outscream the parrot. Its inarticulate, horrible cachinnations voiced her humor uncannily.
To do such things as were done by the three men of whom thou dreame " "What three men?" I whispered, and in an instant there flashed through my mind the memory of the daring deeds of Jack Collier of Tahiti, of tousle-headed Barney Watt of the Ripple, and big Cameron of Honolulu. "Who are the three men of whom I dream?"
"Yes, my son. But that was nearly three years ago. And the children have sprung up like weeds. Wild weeds!" "Well! That tousle-headed Wilson kid!" mused Lane. An uneasy conviction of having been forgotten dawned upon Lane. He remembered Blair Maynard's bitter prophecy, which he had been unable to accept. "Anyway, Daren, are you able to work?" asked his mother.
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