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He was a lanky young man, smooth-shaven, grave, and melancholy; she, a blond woman, most beautiful. She was dressed in white and wore a straw hat with large flowers; she had a refined and gracious manner, eyes of blue, a very dark blue, and flame-coloured hair. I surmised that they were a young married couple; but he seemed too indifferent to be the husband of so pretty a woman.
But come, dearest, Captain Fitzroy and Lord Ventnor have come ashore with father and me. They want us to show them everything! You will excuse him, won't you?" she added, with a seraphic smile to the others. They walked off together. "Jimmy!" gasped the fat midshipman to a lanky youth. "She's got on your togs!"
A still, thin, lanky, longish, oldish man, who stood near, and whom I had not hitherto remarked, put his hand instantly into the close-lying breast-pocket of his old French gray taffetty coat; produced thence a little pocket-book; opened it; and presented to the lady, with a profound obeisance, the required article.
"A delightful idea which I accept with all my heart." "Does Madame Paris approve our plan?" "I could not have devised a better one, gentlemen; it is a masterpiece." When we were in the room, and after we had made a new choice, the girls laughed at the first ones who had not contrived to captivate us, and by way of revenge these girls told their companions that we were lanky fellows.
Nevil deposited his lanky self in a comfortable chair and smiled in his slow way. Then he looked round the room with a critical, disapproving eye. "Is Peter at home?" he asked, "and do you think he could put me up for a night? I suppose I ought to see him." Christopher did not offer to move. "You shan't see him till you tell me what brings you here, Nevil," he said firmly.
"What in blazes!" exclaimed Buck, wonder and surprise struggling for the mastery as the others cantered up. "He's cashed," Red replied, putting on his sombrero and nodding toward the procession. Buck turned like a flash and spoke sharply: "Skinny! Lanky! Follow that glory-outfit, an' see what's in that box!" Billy Williams grinned at Red. "Yo're shore pious, Red."
Sperver, sometimes with his nose in the air and his red moustache floating in the wind, sometimes with his grey eyes intently following the track, reminded me of those famous Cossacks that I had seen pass through Germany when I was a boy; and his tall, lanky horse, muscular and full-maned, its body as slender as a greyhound's, completed the illusion.
The third girl is on her feet, dancing before this areopagus of idiots, with their lanky locks and pot-hats. What a shock when she turns round! She wears over her face the horribly grinning, death-like mask of a spectre or a vampire. The mask unfastened, falls.
The worst and most continuous sufferer from Cyril's loathed presence on the Place was the massive collie, Lad. The child learned, on the first day of his visit, that it would be well-nigh as safe to play with a handful of dynamite as with Lad's gold-and-white mate, Lady. Lady did not care for liberties from anyone. And she took no pains to mask her snappish first-sight aversion to the lanky Cyril.
Beeler went around to the back, but no one answered, so we concluded we would have to try elsewhere for shelter. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy comforted me by remarking, "Well, there ain't a penny's worth of difference in a Mormon bishop and any other Mormon, and D is not the only polygamist by a long shot." We had just turned out of the gate when a lanky, tow-headed boy about fourteen years of age rode up.
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