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This IS Gray God be thanked!" The girl, pale and quiet and smiling, lowered the rifle and came forward offering her hand. "It's pleasant to see YOU," she said quite steadily. "We were afraid of a Boche trick." "So I notice," said Gray, intensely amused. Then the weather-tanned faces of all three sobered. "This is no place to talk things over," said Gray shortly. "Do you know a better place?"
A quick step in the hall, and a slim, weather-tanned young man sprang forward into the room, and caught her up in his arms as if she had been a feather. "You darling!" he said; "I knew that I would surprise you. I came right up from Plymouth by the night train. And I have long leave, and plenty of time to get married. Isn't it jolly, dear Laura?"
Her air of saintly patience became so pronounced that with my own poor intuition I perceived that she was raging at me inwardly. Her weather-tanned complexion, already affected by her confined life, took on an extraordinary clayey aspect which reminded me of a strange head painted by El Greco which my friend Prax had hung on one of his walls and used to rail at; yet not without a certain respect.
She was conscious of a curious feeling of affection for the sturdy, weather-tanned little man opposite her. The glimpse she had been given of his inner self had somehow made him come alive for her. "He wants to marry my daughter," said Lord Marshmoreton.
He was answered in the affirmative, and he got down at once from his horse. Indeed, but for the formality of the thing, he might have spared himself the question, for lounging about the courtyard were a score of stalwart weather-tanned fellows, whose air and accoutrements proclaimed them soldiers.
She was a woman with a prominent nose, and weather-tanned, but not very picturesque or striking. On the 6th July, we left the Villa, with our enormous luggage, and took our departure from Southampton by the noon train.
Each day she read the little lines of the doings of men; unnamed adventurers whose deeds were virile deeds; rough men, from whose contaminating touch society gathers up her silken skirts and passes by upon the other side; unlovely men, rolled-sleeved and open-throated, deep-seamed of face, and richly weather-tanned of arm, who tread roughshod the laws of little right and wrong; who drink red liquor and swear lurid oaths and loud; but who, shoulder to shoulder, redden the gutters of Singapore with their hearts' blood in the snatching of a young girl from danger.
"She's half a child yet, that's the worse of his offense," Steele replied, savagely. "Mary said you choked him." "Some. Not enough." "I'll not forget him or you, Mr. Weir." Steele mounted into his machine. He thoughtfully studied the rancher's bearded, weather-tanned face, illuminated by the moonlight. "At present I'd say nothing about this matter to any one.
Master Lionel nodded, nervously fingering the jewel in his ear, his eyes shifting from their consideration of the seaman's coarse, weather-tanned and hairy countenance. "I did," he said. "But Sir Oliver is headstrong. He will not stir." "Will he not?" The captain stroked his bushy red beard and cursed profusely and horribly after the fashion of the sea. "Od's wounds!
The first mate, Von Halm, a magnificent young man of twenty-eight, a perfect tower of a man, joined the group and was favoured by Ingigerd with looks and pointed remarks, which indicated to her admirers that this weather-tanned officer was not an object of indifference to her. "How many miles, Lieutenant, since we left the Needles?" asked Achleitner, who was pale and evidently chilly.
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