Excerpt from The Story of a Short Life: Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin"s Dovecot

"Most annoying!" said the master of the house. His thick eyebrows were puckered just then with the vexation of his thoughts; but the lines of annoyance on his forehead were to some extent fixed lines. They helped to make him look older than his age - he was not forty - and they gathered into a fierce frown as his elbow was softly touched by his little son.

The child was defiantly like his father, even to a knitted brow, for his whole face was crumpled with the vigor of some resolve which he found it hard to keep, and which was symbolized by his holding the little red tip of his tongue between finger and thumb.

"Put your hands down, Leonard!

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