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"And I was the awkwardest gosling of them all. They tried for years to teach me the acrobat's business; but it was no good. They might just as well have spent their pains on a rheumatic young giraffe." I looked at him and smiled. The simile was not inapposite. How, I asked myself, could the man into which he had developed, ever have become an acrobat?
Strengthening myself with a powerful resolution to extricate myself from the bewitching influence which had surrounded me, I arose, and went straightway to the parlor. Could it be that a flash of pleasure beamed on Miss Tarlingford's face? or was I a deluded gosling? The latter suggestion seemed the more credible, so I cheerfully adopted it. "We have missed you, Mr.
"There speaks the man," she cried passionately, "and pray doesn't a woman's heart ever call for anything but love aren't life and liberty more than all the love in the world? Oh!" and she stopped abruptly. "Well, we have wasted more time than is worth while over this young, wild gosling," laughed Albert. "Let us hope she will take our advice." Mae shook her head involuntarily.
I am afraid Sylvia is like a big bunch of grapes that hangs low above a public pathway: each passer-by reaches up and takes a grape. I caught some one taking a grape the other evening a sort of green grape. Sylvia has been sending bouquets to the gosling who was her escort on the evening of her Commencement him of the duck trousers and webbed feet.
'But why do you pay attention to her? Why . . . ! exclaimed Mr. Gosling, a gentleman of the City, whose roundness would have turned a rifle-shot. 'To allow her to wound you so seriously! exclaimed Mrs. Gosling. 'Madam, if she were my wife, the General explained, 'I should feel it. I say it is the fact of it; I feel it, if I appear so extremely ridiculous to a human eye, to any one eye.
Whom should I surprise in there but Sylvia and the gosling! deep in the shadow of the vines. He had his arm around her and was kissing her. "Upon my honor!" I said; and striding over to him I thrust my hand under his coattails, gripped him by the seat of his ducks, dragged him head downward to the front fence and dropped him out into the street. "Let me catch you in here kissing anybody again!"
Handcuffed but not otherwise shackled, the two prisoners were given a seat together near the middle of a day coach. By permission of the Marshal, the wife of one and the sister of the other sat immediately behind them dear old Hal Gosling never could resist any appeal to his sympathies. The seat directly across the aisle from the two prisoners was occupied by Gosling and Manning.
Pathetic was the spectacle, showing the confidence of an ingenuous soul in its own prowess, of the volunteer detective, digging parallels on the southern spurs of the Blue Ridge for the capture of the wily swindler a thousand miles away! Armed with a kernel of corn, the doughty gosling sets forth to catch the wicked fox that is preying on the flock!
He had contributed eighty-one to a total of two hundred and thirteen. So far Gethryn's absence had not been noticed. But when the umpires had gone out, and the School were getting ready to take the field, inquiries were made. 'You might begin at the top end, Gosling, said Norris. 'Right, said Samuel. 'Who's going on at the other? 'Baynes. Hullo, where's Gethryn? 'Isn't he here?
And what kind of intelligent judgment on this matter, on which my life or death might depend, could this whisky-crazed young gosling be capable of exercising?
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