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The first time that a child attempts to walk alone, what a feeble, staggering, and awkward exhibition it makes. And yet its mother shows, by the excitement of her countenance, and the delight expressed by her exclamations, how pleased she is with the performance; and she, perhaps, even calls in persons from the next room to see how well the baby can walk!
Bias, on his part, was very willing to go to rest. He had plenty of cause for weariness; Myrtilus's unscrupulous body-servant had stolen off with the other slaves the night before, and did not return, with staggering gait, until the next morning, but, in order to keep his promise to his master, he had scarcely closed his eyes, that he might be at hand if Myrtilus should need assistance.
A section of the British Legation students, who had gone forward with the Italians, had a man badly wounded, and the sight of this young fellow staggering back with his clothes literally dripping with blood gave the British Legation inmates a start it took some time to recover from.
'No fat, sir, says I. 'Fat's the cure, says the captain, and makes me eat it. 'Lean's the cure, says the captain, and makes me eat it. 'Steady? says the captain. 'Sick, says I. 'Go on deck, says the captain; 'get rid of the boiled leg of mutton and trimmings and come back to the cabin. Off I go, staggering back I come, more dead than alive. 'Deviled kidneys, says the captain.
Do tell us; which was it, really, Captain Dott?" Daniel, staggering before this point blank attack, hesitated. "Why," he stammered, "it was it was " He looked appealingly at Serena. "Why don't you answer Mrs. Black?" inquired his wife, rather sharply. "It was my Aunt Laviny," said the captain. Mrs. Black nodded and smiled. "Oh! your aunt!" she exclaimed. "There! isn't that funny!
He sat in a chair tilted against the hotel and tried to read aloud from a book. When he was fairly launched in a long paragraph the oculist interrupted. Staggering up and down the narrow board walk before the hotel the old drunkard raved and swore. He seemed beside himself with wrath. "I am sick of such slobbering philosophy," he declared. "Even the reading of it makes you drool at the mouth.
For three days the battle raged, wave after wave of infantry staggering forward undaunted, hardly knowing their direction except that it was towards the enemy, while the cavalry made repeated efforts to storm the great hill defending the town and the "Cameliers" operated in the centre.
Madame Carson contemplated the effect she had produced with a kind of pride for a few moments, and then, with a slight but peremptory wave of her hand, motioned him to follow her out of the sacred edifice. M. de Véron hastily, though with staggering steps, obeyed; Edouard le Blanc crossing the church and reaching the street just soon enough to see them both driven off in M. de Véron's carriage.
There were single-handed men flying from bands of ruffians, who pursued them with naked weapons, and hunted them savagely; there were drunken, desperate robbers issuing from their dens and staggering through the open streets where no man dared molest them; there were vagabond servitors returning from the Bear Garden, where had been good sport that day, dragging after them their torn and bleeding dogs, or leaving them to die and rot upon the road.
I can't think what brought the man down here." "No; he came with a purpose, that's certain." "A woman in it, no doubt. One can quite sympathize with the brother's incredulity as to the suicide theory, though hardly with his manner of showing it. The dead man was not that sort. The idea is simply staggering." Gifford made no response, and for a while they walked on in silence.
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