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Dawson, extinguishing his cigarette and placing it behind his ear, replied that he was the fellow who could bite his, Mr. Coston's, head off. Mr. Coston said: "Huh?" Mr. Dawson said: "Sure." Mr. Coston called Mr. Dawson a pie-faced rubber-necked four-flusher. Mr. Dawson called Mr. Coston a coon. And that was where the trouble really started. It was secretly a great grief to Mr.
He drove with such reckless speed that camels "rubber-necked" to look at us and whirled me past the fat black gate-keeper into the Ghezireh Palace garden of scarlet paths, moonlike lamps, Khedivial statues, and spreading banyans where each tree continued itself in its own "next number," like an endless serial romance. I nearly asked for Mrs. O'Brien, but turned her into Jones at the danger point.
O'Brien went up to him, plucked a thread from his lapel, and said: "Say, senor, I don't want to 'butt in, but what does that monkey-faced, cat-eyed, rubber-necked tin horn tough want with you?" "Sangre de mi vida!" exclaimed the General. "Impossible it is that you speak of my good friend, Senor Kelley." "Come into the summer garden," said Mrs. O'Brien. "I want to have a talk with you."
"Why, the lantern-jawed, bug-eyed, rubber-necked, double-jointed, knock-kneed, splay-foot, hair-lipped, putty-brained country Jake! Did you see him sidestep that?" demanded the aggrieved Bickford, forgetting, in his pique, his stricken father. "What you want to do to him is to sandbag him, give him knockout drops, stab him under the fifth rib!
"We went to Martha's, you know," said Ian, as if his errand had been one of such importance that it was impossible she should forget it, "and she wasn't there, so we thought we'd just look for those people we said about, by ourselves. But we couldn't find anybody, only a shiny black snake by the road, and he rubber-necked at us and spit some 'fore he ran away.
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