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With the first gleam of morning they got out their razors and shaved, and Siwash, who seemed to be the handy man and chief counselor of the outfit, cut everybody's hair, with the exception of Jim, who had just returned from somewhere on the train, and still had the scent of the barber-shop on him, and Taterleg, who had mastered the art of shingling himself, and kept his hand in by constant practice.
As throwing murder in their faces to the tune of a jig in a barber-shop. It is a fact that none of them so much as thought of touching him. No less than all of them, together with all other men, shorn of their imaginations that is to say, the expressionless and imperturbable creature of the Law would be sufficient to touch that ghastly man. On the other hand, they could not leave him alone.
They told us the jewelers would not dare to violate this law, and that whatever a stranger bought in one of their stores might be depended upon as being strictly what it was represented to be. Verily, a wonderful land is France! Then we hunted for a barber-shop. From earliest infancy it had been a cherished ambition of mine to be shaved some day in a palatial barber-shop in Paris.
I'll tell you what we'll play. We'll play " "Not barber-shop!" Fatty interrupted. "I won't play barber-shop, I never liked that game." Jimmy Rabbit started to smile. But he turned his smile into a sneeze. And he said "We'll play robber. You'll like that, I know. And you can be the robber. You look like one, anyhow." That remark made Fatty Coon angry. And he wished that Jimmy hadn't the pink-eye.
Till the old moon rose, sad behind tulip-trees, they sat on packing-boxes by the larger hangar, singing in close harmony "Sweet Adeline," "Teasing," "I've Been Working on the Railroad."... "Hay-ride classics, with barber-shop chords," the songs are called, but tears were in Carl's eyes as the minors sobbed from the group of comrades who made fun of one another and were prosaic and pounded their heels on the packing-boxes and knew that they were parting to face death.
Baku is the first Europeanized city either R or I have been in for many months; the rows of shops, the saloons, drug-stores, barber-shops, and, above all, the hotels how we appreciate it all after the bazaars and wretched serais of Persia! We patronize a barber-shop, and find the tonsorial accommodations equal in every respect to those of America.
But it's no joke to live by one's own law, and yet that's all anybody has to keep him right, if we only knew it, Nance barring a few human statutes against things like murder and keeping one's barber-shop open on the Sabbath the ruder offenses which no gentleman ever wishes to commit. "And must poor woman be ruled by her own God, too?" "Why not?"
One of them the one next to the barber-shop had across its front an ample, jig-sawed veranda, where aforetime, no doubt, the father of a family had fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan on Sunday afternoons, watching the surreys go by, and where his daughter listened to mandolins and badinage on starlit evenings; but, although youth still held the veranda, both the youth and the veranda were in decay.
"It's got the cotton-fields and the slave days in it. It's got the whip and the stocks in it; it's got the cry of the old man that'd never see his children ag'in. That's what the fiddle's got in it." Suddenly, in an apparent outburst of anger, he swept down on the front door and drove the gathering crowd away. "Dis is a barber-shop," he said with an angry wave of his hand; "it ain't a circuse."
Attracted by the sound of the violin, he stayed his steps and smiled scornfully. Then his look fell on the two figures at the door of the barber-shop, and his eyes flashed. Here was the man he wished to see Max Ingolby, the man who stood between him and his Romany lass. Here was a chance of speaking face to face with the man who was robbing him.
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