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I managed, however, to get used to legal ways of looking at things and to the form and method of legal arguments. He was at the same time going through an apprenticeship to journalism, of which it will be more convenient to speak in the next chapter. It is enough to say for the present that his first efforts were awkward and unsuccessful.
Again and again he seized the robe in his mouth, and endeavoured to carry the awkward thing up that tree. But, alas for him, his very determination proved his destruction. So absorbed had he become in his efforts to succeed that he was, for once in his life, caught off his guard. The three Indians had succeeded in getting behind him, and had thus cut off his retreat into the forest.
The meeting of the two, in a long zig-zagging line between rows of opposing hills, was awkward at best. And farther west, beyond the savanna larger hills appeared, covered with trees and high bramble, leading away out of sight.
When he walked it was with an awkward gait, treading as the most tender-footed white man would do in walking with bare soles over rough ground. Clapperton pretended to be as much pleased with this caricature of a white man as the natives were. Between each act the king's women sang a number of choral songs, joined by the crowd outside.
In spite of his feeling of pride and, as it were, of the return of youth, with his favorite daughter on his arm, he felt awkward, and almost ashamed of his vigorous step and his sturdy, stout limbs. He felt almost like a man not dressed in a crowd. "Present me to your new friends," he said to his daughter, squeezing her hand with his elbow.
Several minutes too soon the ghost of Banquo joined the party, and after having sat helpless a while at a table, was ignominiously withdrawn. Twice was this ghostly Jack-in-the-box obtruded on the stage before his time; twice removed again; and yet he showed so little hurry when he was really wanted, that, after an awkward pause, Macbeth had to begin his apostrophe to empty air.
He quickly concealed himself in his cabin, to avoid an awkward explanation, and hoped thanks to the number of passengers to remain unperceived by Mr. Fogg's servant. On that very day, however, he met Passepartout face to face on the forward deck.
We had been long enough in the army to become disciplined, though not in the manner that the regulars were, and had grown accustomed to seeing regiments dressed in uniforms; so that when the new levies came in, we felt some of the amusement of the regulars at their green and awkward ways.
We fetched an armful and hid it in the weeds, and set down to rest, and Tom says, kind of dissatisfied: "Blame it, this whole thing is just as easy and awkward as it can be. And so it makes it so rotten difficult to get up a difficult plan. There ain't no watchman to be drugged now there OUGHT to be a watchman. There ain't even a dog to give a sleeping-mixture to.
"Before the Prince of Wales and all the Royal Family," replied Captain Barber, with conviction. "You've no idea how silly and awkward it makes me feel." "Here she comes," said Nibletts, in a low voice, "and Mrs. Banks and her daughter, too." Captain Barber coughed and, sitting upright, strove to look unconcerned as the three ladies came into the room and expressed their pleasure at seeing him.
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