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Updated: June 5, 2025
On one occasion in particular I seemed to observe this. The second mate was lankily stalking the deck, his hands in his pockets. As he paused in his walk to spit into the sea beside me, Carlos said: "And you, my Juan, what will you do in this Jamaica?" The sense that we were approaching land was already all over the ship. The second mate leered at me enigmatically, and moved slowly away.
"Real gold?" asked Rosy, in a subdued voice. "Yes." Some other girls came up some of the older ones, with their hair done up; and even some of the boys, towering lankily on the outskirts. Not one of these scholars in this country district school fifty years ago had ever owned a gold ring. All they had ever seen were their mothers' well-worn wedding-circlets.
So she rose and said, "Praised be God who hath created me neither blameably fat nor lankily slender, neither white like leprosy nor yellow like colic nor black like coal, but hath made my colour to be beloved of men of wit; for all the poets praise brunettes in every tongue and exalt their colour over all others.
His cheek, as ever, was bulging round his everlasting cigar. Was his tongue therein as well? Lanyard never knew; the man's eyes remained inscrutable for all the kindly shrewdness that glimmered amid their netted wrinkles. "Excuse me!" he said suddenly. "I got to tell the colonel something." He got lankily into motion and presently passed in through the windows....
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