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They were dressed in hat, shirt, trousers, and sandals, precisely like the ordinary Brazilian caboclos, as the poor backwoods peasants, usually with little white blood in them, are colloquially and half-derisively styled caboclo being originally a Guarany word meaning "naked savage." These two Indians were in the employ of the Telegraphic Commission, and had been patrolling the telegraph-line.
A smart, private cab in which you could put a friend of yours well dressed would be the thing. Early." "Easy as winking, sir," answered Gaffney. "Know the cab, and know a friend o'mine who'd sit in it as long as you like." "Very good," said Appleyard. "Now, then, do you know Lancaster Gate?" "Do I know St. Paul's?" exclaimed Gaffney, half-derisively.
I waved my hand toward the cliff behind us. His eyes narrowed incredulously; he glanced at its drop, upon which even a mountain goat could not have made its way, and laughed. "We came through the rock," I answered his thought. "And we come in peace," I added. "And may peace walk with you," he said half-derisively "if the Shining One wills it!" He considered us again.
He gave expression to his feelings, yet chose for them the expression best calculated to render them barren of all consequence where Mistress Winthrop was concerned. Where another would have hidden those emotions, Mr. Caryll elected to flaunt them half-derisively, that Hortensia might trample them under foot in sheer disgust.
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