Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is very like him ; though the dog I am describing is drawn from the life, and from a handsomer dog than he. " This is the dog for me," cried Austin. " Why, you beauty ! Miss Cecil, I would give anything for this dog. Just look at his eyes, will you ? Can I have him ? Docs he belong to any one ? " " Yes," she said, laughing. " He belongs to you. He is worth all the white terriers that -ever were born. I like you the better for your choice of Robin." At this moment a harsh voice behind them said -- " How d'ye do, Miss Cecil ? By Jove ! that dog is a deuced clever dog. He began by pitching into me, but when your father said, ' Go find, Robin,' he became docile, and brought me on your track like an Indian. Is he yours ? " "He is Mr. Elliot's. How do you do, Captain Hertford ? " said Miss Cecil, very coldly. CHAPTER YI. Captain Hertford, the man who had just found the group, was a man whose personal appearance requires some slight notice, and but very slight. He was a very big, thick-set man. He had a broad red face, the principal features of which were lowering bushy eyebrows, beneath which were cruel, deep-sunk, light blue eyes ; and a thick, coarse mouth, too big to be entirely hidden by the moustache which met his deep red whiskers. The expression of his face was, towards men, scowling and insolent; what it was towards women I know not, but should fancy that, if it was intended to express admiration, it was more repulsive than his ordinary look of defiance and ill-temper. He looked with intense eager curiosity at Austin. Austin did not look with much curiosity at him, or he would have seen him bite his lip impatiently. He might have been flattered had he heard the Captain say to himself, " Consume the young beggar, he is infernally handsome." "You ar...