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Updated: June 24, 2025
Thus the interest of the on-lookers at the bluff became divided. Women with straining eyes gazed at the lonely courier, and then fearfully scanned the ridge line between him and the northward sky; praying with white lips for his safety; dreading with sinking hearts that at any moment those savage riders should come darting over the divide and swooping down upon their helpless prey.
"I'm a deceivin', sneakin' critter hey," shouted the visitor, shaking his big fist; he had intended to be calm, but his long-repressed fury had found vent at last. The miller drew back hastily, astonishment and fear mingled in a pallid paste, as it were, with the flour on his face. The six startled on-lookers stood as if petrified. "Ye say I'm a thief! a thief! a thief!"
The soldiers sang, the kirangozi lifted his voice into a loud bellowing note, and fluttered the American flag, which told all on-lookers, "Lo, a Musungu's caravan!" and my heart, I thought, palpitated much too quickly for the sober face of a leader.
A spectacle of pity to Landgraf Wilhelm, to King Friedrich, and serious on-lookers; and perhaps not of pity only, but of "pity and fear" to some of them! sullen Austria taking its sweet revenges, in this fashion.
Then abruptly he stopped and shot an odd, puzzled glance at the White Linen Nurse, and right there before her startled eyes she saw every vestige of human expression fade out of his face as it faded out sometimes in the operating-room when in the midst of some ghastly, unforeseen emergency that left all his assistants blinking helplessly around them, his whole wonderful scientific mind seemed to break up like some chemical compound into all its meek component parts, only to reorganize itself suddenly with some amazing explosive action that fairly knocked the breath out of all on-lookers but was pretty apt to knock the breath into the body of the person most concerned.
To the sorrow of all on-lookers, the suitors were led away; but the judge himself, Hippomenes, rose and begged leave to try his fortune. As Atalanta listened, and looked at him, her heart was filled with pity, and she would willingly have let him win the race to save him from defeat and death; for he was comely and younger than the others.
He adventured viciously and without system, while outsiders to the number of four or five cut in sporadically with small bets. The game was difficult to follow; consequently the lookout, from his raised dais, was leaning forward, chin in hand, while the group was hedged about by eager on-lookers. Faro is a closed book to most people, for its intricacies are confusing.
He glanced so suddenly at two or three street lads, who were the only on-lookers, that they shrank back a step. "Mistoo Itchlin," began Narcisse, once more, in a tone of polite dismay, "you aztonizh me. I assu' you, Mistoo Itchlin" Richling lifted his finger and shook it. "Don't you tell me that, sir! I will not be an object of astonishment to you! Not to you, sir! Not to you!"
"As for you," he added, turning to Helene, "I will put you in a convent." "So be it, father," she said, in calm despair, "I shall die there. You are answerable to God alone for my life and for his soul." A deep sullen silence fell after these words. The on-lookers during this strange scene, so utterly at variance with all the sentiments of ordinary life, shunned each other's eyes.
This proud disdain must mark his goddess of stone in the Arabian hills, this majesty and power; but there must be youth and fire in the place of this ancient calm. A porter that stood beside him, emboldened by barley beer and the growing disapproval among the on-lookers, cried: "Ha! by the rags of my fathers, she outshines her masters, the brickmaking hag!"
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