Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform【電子書籍】[ Albert Bigelow Paine ]

＜p＞Captain Bill McDonald is a name that in Texas and the districts lying adjacent thereto makes the pulse of a good citizen, and the feet of an outlaw, move quicker. Its owner is a man of fifty-six, drawn out long and lean like a buckskin thong, with the endurance and constitution of the same. In repose, Captain Bill is mild of manner; his speech is a gentle vernacular, his eyes are like the summer sky. I have never seen him in action, but I am told that then his voice becomes sharp and imperative, that his eyes turn into points of gray which pierce the offender through. Two other features bespeak this man's character and career: his ears and his noseーthe former, alert and extendedーthe ears of the wild creature, the hunter; the latter of that stately Roman architecture which goes with conquest, because it signifies courage, resolution and the peerless gift of command. His nerves are of that quiet and steady sort which belong to a tombstone and he does not disturb them with tobacco or s．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る