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Through a curtained oval sidled a figure. Black and tall, its long and gnarled arms swung apelike; its shoulders were distorted, one so much longer than the other that the hand upon that side hung far below the knee. It walked with a curious, crablike motion.
It was still dreary, it must be confessed. There were a dozen things she wished she could do to improve it. There were nothing but paper shades at the windows. Even a simple scrim curtain And, in thinking of this, Nan raised her eyes to one window to see a face pressed close against the glass, and two rolling, crablike eyes glaring in at her. "Mercy!" ejaculated Nan Sherwood.
Barney Bill, who liked air and for whom the raw November night was filled apparently with balmy zephyrs, clambered in his crablike way next the driver. They started. "What induced you to come to-night?" Paul asked. "We saw the announcement in the newspapers," replied Jane. "Barney Bill said the Mr. Paul Savelli could, be no one else but you. I said it couldn't." "Why?" he asked sharply.
I again struck a light, ran over, plunged my hand inside his shirt near the throat, and drew it out again quickly with a scorpion hanging by its crablike claws to my finger. I shook it off and killed it; but it did not sting me, being, I suppose, unable to manage a third time.
In this way the curious parallelism to animal motions, which was so striking and disturbing to the human beholder, was attained. Such quasi-muscles abounded in the crablike handling-machine which, on my first peeping out of the slit, I watched unpacking the cylinder.
"I mean to say, you know . . ." "What? Speak up, can't you?" Mr Saltzburg, who had been seated at the piano, absently playing a melody from his unproduced musical comedy, awoke to the fact that the services of an interpreter were needed. He obligingly left the music-stool and crept, crablike, along the ledge of the stage-box.
A touch of sulkiness, left by his late down-putting, affected his gait, which was more crablike than usual. "An invaluable fellow, after all," said Mr. Bowdoin; "a very Caleb." "How Dickensy he is!" answered Mr. James, more familiar with the recent light literature just appearing. "A perfect bookkeeper! Not an error in twenty years!" "Do you notice he's rather looking younger?"
The ends of the spindle drew back before the horsemen's charge, broadening as they went like the heads of monstrous cobras withdrawing into their hoods. Abruptly, with a lightning velocity, these broadenings expanded into immense lunettes, two tremendous curving and crablike claws. Their tips flung themselves past the racing troops; then like gigantic pincers began to contract.
What do I care," shouted Smith, "whether we were Romans and wore togas? We are due this century at a house party on this planet. They expect us on this train. Are you coming? If not kindly relax that crablike clutch on my elbow before partial paralysis ensues." "Smith, wait! I tell you this is somehow becoming strangely portentous.
Then he backed, as swiftly down the stoop, and thus crablike, walked across the street, down a dozen houses and backward still, up the steps of another private dwelling. Inside the vestibule he hid himself. The entry had strong wooden outside doors, and he tried the strength of the hinges: they satisfied him. A dim light burned behind the glass of the inner portal.
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