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He was also slouchy about dress; Bessie could rarely induce him to put on evening clothes when they dined alone. "Well?" she asked again. It was not polite of him to sit staring there as if his mind were a thousand miles away. A husband should show some good manners to a woman, even if she was his wife!
Every beast, bird and fish almost of which they have any knowledge, is represented in some form the heads of bear, seal and other animals are worn upon their heads, and also hideous masks, with moving eyes and lips The costly na-xin, or blanket, woven from the wool of the mountain goat, is thrown over the shoulder; curiously carved rattles are held in their hands, whistles imitating owls, wild geese, loons, eagles and other animals, are blown, drums are beaten; castanets small hoops upon which numerous puffin beaks are suspended shaken, birds' down is scattered until it fills the air and covers the performers, who, with a swinging, slouchy movement, dance for an hour at a time, rattling, whistling, singing and grunting.
The window was open opposite his desk and a delightful breeze was curling up the edges of some papers which had been thoughtfully weighted down. Joe gazed, heavy lidded, through the window. An automobile, a long, slouchy black one, went whirling by with the tonneau full of girls. Their veils were streaming and fluttering out behind, many-hued and flimsy.
He is a steady man with his crew; kind and just, but firm; so they like him, and stay with him. He is still in the slouchy garb of the old generation of mates; but next trip the Anchor Line will have him in uniform a natty blue naval uniform, with brass buttons, along with all the officers of the line and then he will be a totally different style of scenery from what he is now.
His neck was encircled by an old-fashioned silk choker. He perspired freely, and used a red silk handkerchief to remove the perspiration. His clothes fitted him, and he was as genteel-looking as any man in the audience. The slouchy appearance which he is said to have presented on other occasions was conspicuously absent here.
The signs "Lodgings" over the tarnished bell-pull and the name "Briggs" on the plate beside it proved that I had located the house from which the letter had been sent. I paid my cabman, dismissed him, and rang the bell. A slouchy maid-servant answered the ring. "Is Mr. Francis Morley in?" I asked. The maid looked at me. "Wat, sir?" she said. "Does Mr. Francis Morley live here?"
It was a power boat and was running parallel with the coast in a southeasterly direction and inshore of the anchorage of the Sue Bridger. She was about forty feet long and was showing some speed; but her hull looked battered, and there was nothing natty or yacht-like about her. "No pleasure craft, that," ventured Torry, as Phil trained his glasses on her. "She's too slouchy."
O look, I pray you, how she seemeth unto me to be by three full spans higher than she was when she began to hood herself with her apron. What meaneth this restless wagging of her slouchy chaps? What can be the signification of the uneven shrugging of her hulchy shoulders? To what end doth she quaver with her lips, like a monkey in the dismembering of a lobster?
"Number twenty-five on the third floor." "He came with his dog?" I interposed quickly, "a spaniel?" "Yes." "And your lodger, is he an ugly, slouchy creature with hooked nose, bleary eyes and shaggy yellow hair?" But to this she vouchsafed no reply. Already the matter had passed out of my hands.
The seven working-men from Leesville felt suddenly slouchy and disgraced, with their ill-fitting civilian clothes and their miscellaneous bundles and suitcases. The first thing they did with the new arrivals was to make them clean, to fumigate and vaccinate them.
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