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The Colonel halted, irresolute, and pulled his goatee Young Colfax stepped in between them. "I'll buy her for you, Jinny. Mother promised you a present, you know, and you shall have her." Virginia had calmed. "Do buy her, one of you," was all she said "You may do the bidding, Clarence," said the Colonel, "and we'll settle the ownership afterward."
"Marse Clarence done send 'em in, des picked out'n de hothouse dis afternoon, Miss Jinny. Jackson, fotch a bowl!" "No," said Virginia. She took the flowers from Ned, one by one, and to the wonderment of Captain Lige and her father strewed them hither and thither upon the table until the white cloth was hid by the red flowers. The Colonel stroked his goatee and nudged Captain Lige.
His hair, too, was brushed back from his broad forehead with more than usual care, each silver thread keeping its proper place in the general scheme of iron-gray; while his goatee was twisted to so fine a point that it curled upward like a fishhook.
He had a white mustache, and a goatee, and white hair under his black felt hat. His face was long, his nose straight, and the sweetness of its smile had a strange effect upon Eliphalet, who stood on one foot. "Well, sonny, scared of mules, are you?" The speech is a stately drawl very different from the nasal twang of Eliphalet's bringing up. "Reckon you don't come from anywhere round here?"
But whether to fly in at the one entrance or out at the other, he was undecided. "Colonel," said Mr. Whipple, "is that true?" "Sir!" It did not seem to Stephen as if he was walking when he went toward the ground glass door. He opened it. There was Colonel Carvel seated on the bed, his goatee in his hand. And there was the Judge leaning forward from his hips, straight as a ramrod.
The pungent, clean smell of grain alcohol filled the air, and a little later a man, devoid of goatee and moustache, passing out into the starlight, while a black, slouch hat went into the bag, and a Panama, so flexible that it had not suffered from having been thrust rather ruthlessly into the valise, came out. "I don't like that sort of detective work," mused the colonel, "but it has its uses."
He comes in sometimes when I am with Clementina at the piano he is a widower, you know and stands there pulling his white goatee. 'And how are the semiquavers and the demisemiquavers progressing? he always asks. "I wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe! And those Astrakhan rug portieres. And Clementina has such a funny little cough. I hope she is stronger than she looks.
Indeed, he mistook a short, stout, careless appointee, Major Billings, with his negro servant, his Southern mustache and goatee and his pompous ways, for a genuine Southerner, and the Major, though from Vermont, seemed pleased.
The Captain turned. "Lige, why don't you give up steamboating and come along to Europe? You're not forty yet, and you have a heap of money laid by." The Captain shook his head with the vigor that characterized him. "This ain't no time for me to leave," he said. "Colonel; I tell you there's a storm comin'." The Colonel pulled his goatee uneasily. Here, at last, was a man in whom there was no guile.
He had hardly pronounced Maurice Roger's name when a voice like a cannon bellowed out, "Now then! the yellow parlor!" and he was conducted into a room where a dazzling table was laid by a young man, with a Yankee goatee and whiskers, and the agility of a prestidigitateur. This frisky person relieved Amedee at once of his hat and coat, and left him alone in the room, radiant with lighted candles.
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