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A gawky creature, with a coat like a bear's, he moved with the awkward grace of a puppy, slithering and slipping in the mud, yet always recovering himself with surprising speed and precision. Boy dismounted, and Silver followed her example. She held out her hand toward the colt. "Come on, the boy!" she cooed. "Billy Bluff's not here to rag you."
Behind this sleek and comely personage, on knock-knees, in torn shirt open at the throat, with apathetic, listless, unlighted face, stood the lean and gawky Beck. "Set a chair for the gentleman," said the inmate of the chamber to Beck, with a dignified wave of the hand. "How do you do, Mr. Mr. humph Jason? How do you do? Always smart and blooming; the world thrives with you."
He was as good as his word; indeed, despite a gawky air, he was simply invaluable in his present employment, showing marked sagacity in all that concerned the care of horses, and guiding us by one short cut after another for days, and without a fault.
Eventually we succeeded in calming him down; "Stub" made a most abject apology, and I don't believe he ever used his knife and fork for any such a purpose again. The gawky chap was Mr. Dave Harrison, one of the finest operators in the profession.
"It took me two days, madame, to find and catch a turtle," Niafer replied, "and that delayed me." "Oh, you have always some tale or other, trust you for that, but it is better late than never. Come, Niafer, and do you know anything about this gawky, ragtag, yellow-haired young champion?"
"I decided to swim across the lagoon and leave him alone for a bit, until the affair blew over. I shinned up the tallest palm-tree, and sat there thinking of it all. I don't suppose I ever felt so hurt by anything before or since. It was the brutal ingratitude of the creature. I'd been more than a brother to him. I'd hatched him, educated him. A great gawky, out-of-date bird!
Fanning, in a burst of anger. Then he said: "You shall have the militia. You shall have the militia." He rang a bell and sent his steward for the captain, a gawky country farmer, who gave a gasp when he came upon the scene in the hall. "And mind," said Nick to the captain, "you are to keep your men away from him, or he will kill one of them." The captain grinned at him curiously.
Gawky, after having observed that she never had a good opinion of my fidelity, proposed to have me carried before the justice and committed to Newgate immediately. Her husband was actually upon the stairs in his way for a constable, when Mr.
"Two day," said Perrotte, fighting for breath and nerve. "Here, boy," shouted Maitland to a chore lad slouching by, "jump for that cook house and fetch a cup of coffee, and be quick." The boss' tone injected energy into the gawky lad. But Maitland took him to the cook. "Fill this man up," he said, "and then show him where to sleep.
Till then, I had no idea she was fond of anyone in particular; but the way her glance wandered from him to me and from me to Hilda showed clearly that she thought much of this gawky visitor. We sat and talked together, we four, for some time. I found the young man with the lugubrious countenance improved immensely on closer acquaintance. His talk was clever.
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