From the first it was a law unto itselfmurder lust wearing the smirk of respectabilityJudge Lynch dressed in a business suit.

Yes, sir; I fetched 'em back, I did" A sudden and curious gleam of pride crossed the smirk for an instant;"I guess my gentleman ain't agoing to look no worse than the next Fifth Avenue swell he meetseven if he ain't et no devilled kidneys for breakfast and he don't dine on no canvas-back at Delmonico's.

A woman older, less comely than Janet, and having the smirk of a perfunctory greeting upon her flabby face, stood within the room assigned to Mistress Katherine.

" Thereupon, sure enough, both M. D'Hemecourt and his daughter, rushing together, did what I have been hoping all along, for the reader's sake, they would have dispensed with; they burst into tears; whereupon the Major, with his Irish appreciation of the ludicrous, turned away to hide his smirk and began good-humoredly to scratch himself first on the temple and then on the thigh.

I knocked at the door, and was answered by a red-haired young woman, with a silly grin on her face, the smirk flanked on each side with cork-screw curls which hung down over her bright blue dress; which, as I could see, was pulled out at the seams under her round and shapely arms.

It was wonderful to see her cork-screw curls and languishing smirks when the young men took turns in pretending to court her, while an admiring crowd gazed at their amours through the window.

It is possible that the degrading slavery in which they usually live, their continued habits of cringing servility, by which the countenance acquires a sinister air and fiendishly cunning smirk, may cause this change in their appearance.

Perhaps you will wipe away that smirk of yours when a French firing squad backs you against a wall.