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It was written in his jaunty insolence, in the flashing eyes. He was a handsome fellow, white-toothed, black-haired, lithely tigerish, with masterful mouth and eyes of steel, so far as one might judge behind the white mask he wore. Alert, cruel, fearless from the head to the heel of him, he looked the very devil to lead an enterprise so lawless and so desperate as this.
And here, in the last imaginable place, there sprang up young outlandish voices and a chatter of some foreign speech; and I saw, pursuing the coach with its load of Hebridean fishers as they had pursued vetturini up the passes of the Apennines or perhaps along the grotto under Virgil's tomb two little dark-eyed, white-toothed Italian vagabonds, of twelve to fourteen years of age, one with a hurdy-gurdy, the other with a cage of white mice.
"And can you, my good lady, tell me where they are gone?" "Somewhere down in Surrey Lord knows I forget the names but to General somebody's." "General B 's, perhaps." "Ay, ay, that's it." My imagination ran over in an instant all the general's family, the gouty brother, and the white-toothed aide-de-camp. "How long are they to stay at General B 's, can you tell me, my good lady?" "Dear heart!
"A golden-headed, gray-eyed, white-toothed, fine-skinned son of the morning must be a sybarite," the Boy observed, entering the room at that moment; "so I bring flowers, and also salad, just cut and crisp." "May I ask how you knew there was salad in my garden?" "Well, you may ask," the Boy responded cheerfully; "but let me see, though perhaps I had better tell you.
The Mexican boy smiled, white-toothed, while deep pools of eyes regarded Johnny soberly. "She's damn hot to-day, señor," he said. "Thank you for the so good water to drink." "That's all right. Help yourself," Johnny said languidly. "Had your dinner?" "Not this day. I'm come from Tucker Bly, his rancho. I ride to see if horses feed quiet." "Well, come in and eat.
I'm troubled about him." Again the young man's white-toothed smile flashed. "You'd better be. Anybody that goes hunting Black MacQueen unarmed ought to be right well insured." She nodded, a shadow in her eyes. "Yes but he would go. He doesn't mean them to see him, if he can help it." "Black sees a heap he isn't expected to see.
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