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In truth, Private Doran looked very well, having suffered no diminution of either girth or ruddiness. His fears in regard to his officers were justified, as he was taken at once before Colonel de Peyster, who examined him with the greatest severity. But Private Doran's apprehensions gave him ready and clear answers.
It was a fair face to see; quite youthful; in form, oval: complexion not white, like the Greek; nor brunet, like the Roman; nor blond, like the Gaul; but rather the tinting of the sun of the Upper Nile upon a skin of such transparency that the blood shone through it on cheek and brow with nigh the ruddiness of lamplight.
Your book will be translated into English I shall live to see it." A few afternoons later the Red Beadle, his patched garments pathetically spruced up, came to see his friends, goaded by the news of Hulda's illness. There was no ruddiness in his face, the lips of which were pressed together in defiance of a cruel and credulous world.
The stranger was characterized by an aspect full of composure and benignity, a face in which the serious lines of age were blended with the ruddiness and smoothness of youth, and a garb that bespoke that religious profession with whose benevolent doctrines the example of Hadwin had rendered me familiar. On observing me on my feet, he betrayed marks of surprise and satisfaction.
He was heavier, physically, with the ruddiness of good living rather than of hard training; he spoke more deliberately, and had less frequent bursts of subversive enthusiasm. Well, he was a father, a householder yes, and a capitalist now. It was fitting that his manner should show a sense of these responsibilities. As for Mrs.
Come, out with it; and mind, I've said 'Yes, and welcome' before ye've asked it." O'Day, from his seat near the stove, studied her face for a moment, his own brightening as he felt the warmth of her loyalty. "Don't promise too much till you hear me out. I am looking for a job." Kitty turned quickly, her eyes two round O's, all the ruddiness gone from her cheeks. "Mr. O'Day! Why!
As the visitor's weather-beaten ruddiness had changed to a ghastly ashen hue, rather bordering on the azure, Merton set forth the liqueur case, and drew a bottle of soda water. 'No water, said the peer; 'it's just ma twal' ours, an auld Scotch fashion, and he took without winking an orthodox dram of brandy. Then he looked at the silver tops of the flasks. 'A good coat! he said. 'Yours?
Abraham Brown, of Hoxton, London an old white-headed man, without the ruddiness which makes white hairs so pleasing was sworn, and deposed that he kept a lodging-house at an address he named. On a Saturday evening less than a month before the fire, a lady came to him, with very little luggage, and took the front room on the second floor.
The amber light from the window made red-gold of his hair, added ruddiness to his less-gaunt features. "No, I haven't. As far as I can tell, the stranger's not right here. I caught stray thought beams twice surprise expressed by newly arrived Wyverns who met me and apparently expected to be fronted by something quite physically different." "Another Terran scout?" "No.
Graham, he saw, had a new ruddiness of health; he laid a shawl tenderly about his wife's shoulders; and Jasper remembered that a birth was imminent. Later he drifted with Susan to the door, and they passed out into the obscurity beyond. Even now he was reluctant to speak, to break with importunities the serene mood. "All the iron making," she spoke at last, "lovely.
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