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So long as these processes were not forced upon his consciousness and were faultlessly performed, he accepted the results without comment. But let one cog of the wheel slip, setting the mechanism of his comfort awry, and he was sure to mention it.
First, Bailie MacConachie emerged, dressed in the famous frock-coat and grey trousers, in the high collar and magisterial stock, but without his usual calm and dignity. His coat was only half buttoned, his tie was slightly awry, and although his hat had been distinctly tilted to the side on getting out of the cab, he was too much occupied to set it right.
Tom walked ahead, rifle on shoulder, then Polly Ann; and lastly I drove the two shaggy ponies, the instruments of husbandry we had been able to gather awry on their packs, a scythe, a spade, and a hoe. I triumphantly carried the axe. It was not long before we were in the wilderness, shut in by mountain crags, and presently Polly Ann forgot her sorrows in the perils of the trace.
Mara's shrewdness of resource turned the tables on the Italian. On her first appearance her manner was purposely full of gaucherie, her costume badly considered and all awry, her singing careless and out of time. The maligner was triumphant, and said to all, "Didn't I say so? See how ugly she is; and as for singing did you ever hear such a vile jargon of sounds?"
When I opened the door to her she came sailing into the room with her new half-moon bonnet a little awry, as if she had put it on hurriedly in the dim light of early morning, and, looking at me with her cold grey eyes behind their gold-rimmed spectacles, she began to bombard me with mingled ridicule and indignant protest. "Goodness me, girl, what's all this fuss about?
Every Sunday at church, I shall see your collar awry and every time you go to your aunt's, she will think we do not make you neat. I must see about that. Here are good stockings, however properly stout. My dear, are these all the shoes you have got?" "I have a pair on." "Of course; I don't doubt that. We must have you measured to-morrow for some boots fitter for the country than these.
His linen was discouraging, his cravat awry and dingy, and his hands we had better pass his hands; yet they were slender and refined. Also they shook, though not from any habit commonly called vicious. You could see that no vice of the body nor any lust of material things had ever led him captive. He gave one the tender despair with which we look on a blind babe.
Out in the world there, on the skirts of the woodland, the self-satisfied sheep-boy delivers a last complacent squint down the length of his penny-whistle, and, with a flourish correspondingly awry, he also marches into silence, hailed by supper. The woods are still. There is heard but the night-jar spinning on the pine-branch, circled by moonlight.
Shepherd, who had not been quite ready, scuttling along a hundred yards behind him, with quick, fussy steps, and bonnet an awry. Laura and Isabella stood at the gate. "I ought really to have gone, too," said Isabella, and smiled at the gutter. "But as you are here, Robby said I had better stay at home to-day. Now what would you like to do?"
Rudd, catching sight of Max's angry countenance. "It was a fair encounter, and the lad is stronger than you." "If there was any way of pounding a laugh into Maxwell Lane, I'd tackle him myself," declared Alec. "Boys, what are you doing?" called Sally. "Are you dressed? May we come through? We want to help Mary Ann about breakfast." Max rose to his feet, his face red and his collar awry.
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