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Updated: June 17, 2025
Hump Doane walked over and stood looking up from his squat, toad-like deformity into the face of the man who towered above him, yet in his eyes was the blaze with which a giant might look down on a pigmy. "Ye says he used two men, Sim," the falsetto of the hunchback's voice was as sharp as a dagger's point. "Ef ye came hyar fer any honest purpose, I calls on ye, now, ter give me them two names."
"We shall go to him," said my father slowly, "but he shall not return to us." The hunchback's eyes blinked and bated in the candlelight. "You quote the Scriptures," he said. "Is David in a grave?" "He is not," replied my father. The hunchback seemed to advance like a duelist who parries the first thrust of his opponent. But my father met him with an even voice.
The happy are quick in detecting happiness in others, and Adrienne guessed, by the hunchback's last words, that there was no longer any secret between the smith and the sempstress. She could not therefore help exclaiming, as she entered: "Oh! this will be the brightest day of my life, for I shall not be happy alone!" Agricola and Mother Bunch turned round hastily.
Do your best. Those who serve me well serve themselves." The hunchback answered, slowly: "Whenever you want me, I am here." Gonzague, in spite of himself, started at the hunchback's last words, but the demeanor of Æsop was so simple and his bearing so respectful that Gonzague was convinced that their use was purely accident. He looked at his watch. "I must prepare for the ceremony," he said.
At that command the hunchback, who had been leaning against a chair an apparently amused spectator of the not untragic scene, shambled slowly forward more ungainly than ever in his finery, his long sword swinging grotesquely against his legs. Flora gave a cry of indignation. "Are you mad? That monster!" The hunchback's answer to her words was a comic bow, which made Gonzague's friends laugh.
His curiously mobile face he distorted at once into an admirable likeness to the hunchback, and then, this initial likeness thus acquired, he heightened and intensified it by few but skilful strokes of coloring matter. Then he dexterously rearranged his hair to resemble the hunchback's dishevelled locks, compelling its curls to fall about his transformed face and shade it.
"He's got a crooked back," she said. "That set him wrong. He was a sour young man and got no good of all his money and big place till he was married." Mary's eyes turned toward her in spite of her intention not to seem to care. She had never thought of the hunchback's being married and she was a trifle surprised. Mrs.
The tyrannic Thascius, regarding him with a scowl of drunken wrath, seized an empty vase, and poising it in his unsteady hand, prepared to hurl it at the hunchback's prostrate form, when again a single cry a woman's rising above the increasing uproar in the street, rang shrill and startling through the banqueting-hall.
But when Odo would have asked if the naked man was a kinsman, the boy hurried him on, saying only: "You'll read of him some day in Plutarch." Odo, next morning, under the hunchback's guidance, continued his exploration of the palace.
"I'm afraid, Captain Jeremy " Captain Jeremy took the dice up, turned them between finger and thumb, and dropped them slowly into the box. As he lifted his hand to make the cast he looked up and saw the gleam in his friend's greenish eyes. The next moment box and dice flew past the hunchback's head and out at the open window.
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