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"Good evening," murmured Shosshi, sawing away. Shosshi was a gawky young man with a blotched sandy face ever ready to blush deeper with the suspicion that conversations going on at a distance were all about him. His eyes were shifty and catlike; one shoulder overbalanced the other, and when he walked, he swayed loosely to and fro.
"No; that is, I've never seen Miss Curtiss, but Marie says I met Miss Fairfield one day, for a moment." "Don't you remember her?" "Hardly; she seemed an insignificant little thing." "Pretty?" "How do I know! She was all wrapped up in motor togs, and acted like a gawky schoolgirl." "She did! Why, I know that Fairfield girl, and she isn't gawky a bit! She's a fascinating blonde."
During those days, those gawky, gainless, unadmired days, in which he had wandered about the lanes of Guestwick as his only amusement, and had composed hundreds of rhymes in honour of Lily Dale which no human eye but his own had ever seen, he had come to regard himself as almost a burden upon the earth. Nobody seemed to want him.
Lincoln seized two cotton umbrellas, rasped his chair over the bare boor into a corner of the room, and sat hunched over an imaginary rat hole, for all the world like a gawky Quaker apprentice. And this was a candidate for the Senate of the United States, who on the morrow was to meet in debate the renowned and polished Douglas! "Well," Mr.
And never a rough in the assemblage all nicely dressed fathers and mothers, young gentlemen and ladies and children; and plenty of university students and glittering officers; with here and there a gray professor, or a peaceful old lady with her knitting; and always a sprinkling of gawky foreigners.
As an ex-Member, he is entitled to the privilege of the floor. I, for one, would like to have his counsels at this juncture." Thus appealed to, Mr. Rubber-Neck got stumblingly to his feet with a gawky and timid demeanor. "Mr. Chairman, it is not a theory but a hell of a condition that confronts us," he said, uncertainly.
“Well, lad, I will tell you now. The first time I ever saw him was on the day when he joined the Hind at Sheerness, in June, 1793. I was a young midshipman on board her, and I can tell you we were all astonished at his appearance, for he was between seventeen and eighteen—a tall, gawky fellow.
Ladies get on better with them than men: either the ladies are more tolerant of twaddle, or their discerning eyes see in the gawky youth the germ of future usefulness. George was on capital terms with himself. He was the oracle of Mr. Latherington's school, where he was not only head boy and head swell, but a considerable authority on sporting matters.
But walking home through the still streets Sylvia had plucked at his elbow. What fools we mortals be especially men! Here was a noble woman a restful, understanding, tenderly loving woman; a woman as nearly approaching perfection as it was safe for a woman to go! It made him quite cross with himself. Ten years ago she had been gawky and sallow-complexioned.
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