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Updated: May 18, 2025
As he came along toward the main entrance he saw Andrew Higgins, the longest, lankiest Phi of them all, bearing down upon him. His heart sank, but his resolution was firm, and he looked his fate in the face. When his executioner had almost reached him, somebody touched his shoulder; it was Smith.
He was the tallest and lankiest of them all, and like some ghostly cicerone, he never spoke, but led the way through the dewy grass into the white, glorious moonlight, and kept a few yards ahead of me in the dusty road until we reached the Rayne farmhouse. Through the windows I saw a dim light, and figures moving. I pushed open the door without knocking.
More than that, a kind of rigid fascination fixed our attention on one of their number the tallest and lankiest, who sat down at least two feet from the table and endeavored to serve himself like that. Happily they went to bed early, the captain kissing our hands and asking Madame X. if she were used to that, it being the custom in Germany.
Tiring at last of this diversion, he turned his attention to his sleeping companions, and being in a condescending humour, and observing that the lankiest of the two sleepers was nodding at him, the humorous greyhound raised his front paw and passed it over the face of the slumberer, who thereupon murmured heavily, "Pah! don't taste it, your honour!" And now let us have a look at the carriage.
Hearing propitious sounds, they came stringing in, and Haviland's explanation, with the celebration that followed it, took such a length of time that the longest, lankiest Phi fell asleep in the parlor and his lamp burned out about two. The Initiation of Dromio. "I know a prof., not much to see, Take care! Mistakes are made here frequently, Beware!"
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