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"Mornin'," responded one of the loafers. "I presume some of you gentlemen can direct me to the house of Mayor Lee." "The mayor ain't to home," volunteered a lank, unshaven native in butternut jeans and boots. "I think it was his house I inquired for," suggested the stranger.
The superintendent looked at the lank lad, who now, fifteen, would have appeared eighteen were it not for his smooth, almost childish face. "What kind of work, young fella?" asked the Boss. "Anything to start with," replied Jim, "until we see what I can do." "You're as thin as a lath. Ye can get down there with Derrick No. 2 and get some muscle laid on you.
Then suddenly James raised his eyes. There was a queer appeal in that suspicious troubled look: "I know I'm no match for you," it seemed to say. And, hunting for handkerchief he wiped his brow; then, bending sorrowful and lank over the dead man, he too turned and hurried out. Old Jolyon stood, still as death, his eyes fixed on the body. Who shall tell of what he was thinking?
Why, it seemed as if every thing under the sun and moon, that could happen to a woman, had happened to Dorlesky, painful things, and gaulin'. Jest before Lank parted with her, she fell on a broken sidewalk: some think he tripped her up, but it never was proved. But, anyway, Dorlesky fell, and broke her hip bone; and her husband sued the corporation, and got ten thousand dollars for it.
He had scarcely gone before there was a clatter of hoofs in the ranchhouse yard, a horse dashed up to the edge of the porch, came to a sliding halt and the lank figure of Toban appeared before the door in which Betty was standing. He looked at her, noted her white face, and peered over her shoulder at Bob, with the rifle, at Taggart on the floor. "Holy smoke!" he said; "what's happened?"
So now having taken all measures, gliding among the portmanteaus, hand-barrows, and porters, and the clangorous bell ringing, he mounted, lithe and lank, into his place. There was a pleasant evening light still, and the gas-lamps made a purplish glow against it. The little butter-cooler of a glass lamp glimmered from the roof. Mr.
And, indeed, many who had seen him lately might have had some difficulty in recognizing him. He was not only lean and lank, and worn and wan, but he spoke with some difficulty, and on close examination it might be seen that his mouth was twisted as it were from the centre of his face. Since his relatives had seen him he had suffered what is genteelly called a slight threatening of paralysis.
With that the lank grey beggarman took a bag from under his armpit, and from out the bag a ball of silk, and he unwound the ball and he flung it slantwise up into the clear blue heavens, and it became a ladder; then he took a hare and placed it upon the thread, and up it ran; again he took out a red-eared hound, and it swiftly ran up after the hare.
Beresford had walked out to meet him. He answered, curtly. "No." The long, lank whiskey-runner rubbed his chin bristles awkwardly. "We 'lowed maybe " "I keep my prisoners, both Morse and Barney." "Barney!" repeated Gosse, surprised. "Yes, we've got him and two others. I don't want them. I'll turn 'em over to you. But not Morse and Barney. They're going to the post with me for whiskey-running."
The proprietor of the Burke House had originally intended that the brown uniform be worn by a diminutive bell-boy, such as one sees in musical comedies. But the available supply of stage size bell-boys in our town is somewhat limited and was soon exhausted. There followed a succession of lank bell-boys, with arms and legs sticking ungracefully out of sleeves and trousers.
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