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Updated: June 18, 2025
I might have been tempted to linger by the way but for the intense sunshine and for the fact that the muleteer was an exceptionally dull dog a dusky youth of the taciturn and wooden-faced Spanish variety, whose anti-Hellenic profile irked me, in that landscape. The driving road ends at the cemetery.
Disappointed lovers at Roville take to boule as in other places they might take to drink. It is a fascinating game. A wooden-faced high priest flicks a red india-rubber ball into a polished oaken bowl, at the bottom of which are holes, each bearing a number up to nine.
Had lunch on board and then Captain Scott gave us an hour or two to ourselves, for it was the day of farewell letters, everybody sitting round the ward-room table sucking pens or pencils, looking very wooden-faced and nonchalant despite the fact that we were most certainly writing to our nearest and dearest, sending through our letters an unwritten prayer that we should be spared after steadfastly performing our alloted tasks with credit to our flag and with credit to those at whose feet we yearned to lay the laurels we hoped to win.
I saw Madame van Hunker led out by a solid, wooden-faced old Dutchman, who looked more like her father than her husband; and I told Annora that I was sure she had worn the pearls only because he compelled her. 'Belike, said my sister. 'She hath no more will of her own than a hank of flax! That men can waste their hearts on such moppets as that!
After about fifteen minutes of tiresome waiting, while several of the servants peeped out at me from the rear rooms as I stood sentinel at the end of the corridor, just inside the great iron barred door, I heard Holmes's welcome shout from the front of the building: "All right, Watson; the constables are here!" In a moment a wooden-faced gink appeared, who said he had come to relieve me.
"The right fellers. I've been in all kinds of bands. Why, I even was a vigilante in '51." This elicited a laugh from his fellows, except the wooden-faced Gulden. "How many do we want?" asked Red Pearce. "The number doesn't matter. But they must be men I can trust and control. Then as lieutenants I'll need a few young fellows, like you, Red. Nervy, daring, cool, quick of wits."
As he started for the cabin in quest of more cartridges he came into collision with White hurrying on deck. "What is the matter?" inquired the latter, as soon as he regained the breath thus knocked out of him. "Oh, nothing at sill," replied Cabot, with ironical calmness, "only we've been played for a couple of hayseeds by a wooden-faced young heathen who don't know enough to go in when it rains.
"So she wears her prettiest frock for this man a wooden-faced bookkeeper perhaps; or a preoccupied president and she dreams of him and is jealous of him and very likely gossips about him. And the years pass and she stays just as shut away and misunderstood and starved.
The tables were crowded, smoke hung in low-banked clouds below the flaring oil lamps, and the glittering bar at the far end of the room was phalanxed three deep by a jostling, good-natured throng. Soft-footed, wooden-faced Chinese mozos glided about, and the whining monotone of the croupier came from a distant corner.
How strongly present to my mind is that by-path, a gray line between the poor spare grass and the bare trees, the cold winter sky, the wide road at a little distance with the carriage advancing slowly, drawn by the bay horse, shaking its head and its bit, and driven by a wooden-faced coachman then, the man. He walked by my side, a tall figure in a long overcoat.
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