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"Been listening to all our talk, I suppose," said Cuffer, uglily. He was angry to think that Dick had been able to follow him after all. "I have," was the youth's bold reply. He felt nothing was to be gained by beating around the bush. "It's a nice business to be in!" "It is better than the business you are in." "I don't think so." "I do.
The ukulele was whanging again, and a couple or two, locked cheek to cheek, were undulating in a low-lidded kind of ecstasy. Finally, Cora Kinealy and Archie Sensenbrenner, rather uglily oblivious. A youth, frantic to outdistance a rival for the dancing-hand of Miss Gertie Cobb, stumbled across Miss Schump's carefully crossed ankles. "'Scuse," he said, without glancing back.
The striking features of his face were a pair of keen, hard, greenish eyes and a jaw that protruded uglily the jaw of aggressiveness, not the too prominent jaw of weakness. At sight of Jane he halted awkwardly. "How're you, Mr. Hastings?" said he. "Hello, Dick," said the old man. "This is my daughter Jane." Jane smiled a pleasant recognition of the introduction.
The words he intended to say never were uttered. At that very moment another gray object streaked its way down through the heavens, whirling uglily. They thought sure it would strike the cabin roof and crash through, and intuitively they cowered back in the corners for protection. But their speed carried the stone farther to the rear. There was a tearing, rending sound. Their faces blanched.
People like Wagner and Strauss and the rest seem so much sticky and insanitary mud next to these exquisite young ones, and so very old; and not old and wonderful like the great men, Beethoven and Bach and Mozart, but uglily old like a noisy old lady in a yellow wig. The audience applauded, but wasn't quite sure.
Of course, Buddle could not give any sort of opinion upon a case which he had not seen; but it described uglily, and the major consulted in broken hints, with an uneasy wink or two, about a flight to Boulogne.
"You certainly do," snapped the old lady, her dignity tottering and a very vulgar kind of human wrath showing uglily in her blazing eyes and twitching nose and mouth and fingers. "Then let us have no more of this caste nonsense," said the young man. "Forbid your granddaughter to marry or to see me. Send or take her away. She will thank you a year from now.
I didn't know what was being done over here," he said, uglily. "And didn't I lose enough? What's the loss of some old rags, and a trunk, 'side of my money?" He said it with such force, and with so angry a gesture, that she shrank back from him. But her pain and disappointment were so strong that she had to speak. "And the trunk was washed out of the wagon, Uncle Jabez? It's gone?"
His temples, with the black hair, were distinct and fine as a work of art. But always his eyes had this strange, half-diabolic, half-tortured pale gleam, like a goat's, and his mouth was shut almost uglily, his cheeks stern. His moustache was brown, his teeth strong and spaced. The women said it was a pity his moustache was brown. 'Peccato! sa, per bellezza, i baffi neri ah-h!
You will trespass here if you are determined. But I warn you that if you bring those dogs ashore you will be prosecuted." "I'm a-goin' to search this islan'," growled Sheriff Larkin, uglily. "You may. You have no warrant to do so, but you may. But you must not bring ashore those dogs. And," added the professor, turning and bowing with old-fashioned courtesy to Mrs.
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