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"Can you tell me," his agitation did not allow him to speak calmly, "can you tell me, please, where Lon Cronk lives?" Although his question was low and broken, Scraggy caught each word. "Down to the edge of the lake, Mister," she replied. "It's a goin' to be a dark night to be out in, ain't it?" In his relief, Brimbecomb drew a long breath. She had not recognized him!
His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace. "Abe," said Mr. Curtin, "I would like to make you known to my friend Mr. Stanton of Ohio." The queer face broke into a pleasant smile, and the long man held out his hand. "Glad to know you, Mr. Stanton," he said, and then seemed to be stricken with shyness.
He added nothing to this statement; but said after a moment's silence: "Scraggy ought to go dead herself some of these days, 'cause she's allers a runnin' about in the storms. I see her ag'in tonight a startin' out for another ja'nt. She had her bundle and her cat and was makin' a bee line for Ithaca." Lem glanced up quickly. "I've changed my mind, Lon," he grunted.
"That's rather what we find with Betty's," said Diana; "we plait it up as tight as we can, don't we, darling?" she said, re-tying the ribbon which secured Betty's very thick pigtail. "I had twice as much as Betty, at her age, I'm sure," said Zerlina, forgetting a photograph which stands on Jim's dressing-table, of a small fat girl with very little hair and that rather scraggy.
Her city eyes, untrained to nature's hints, failed to notice that the scraggy, smoke-dwarfed oak that sprang, somehow, miraculously, from the mangey little dirt-plot in front of the building had developed surprising things all over its scrawny branches overnight.
But it did not equal Taltavull's impatience, and every minute or so out went his head and beard bidding the driver to hasten and hasten; and the driver, crouched there in his little penthouse, rumbled out fierce arr-e-ees, and prodding forth a blue-sleeved arm beneath his blanket, lashed the scraggy mules into a gallop. "Good for any one with a torpid liver this," said Haigh.
He had on a dress-suit, brown and rusty, a white tie made of a handkerchief torn in two, and a pair of patent leather shoes, scraggy and cracked. Fielding behaved well, Dicky was amiable and attentive, and the dinner being ready to the instant, there was no waiting, there were no awkward pauses.
He had seen nothing of that character. Barren, level, vast, this waste of world stretched before him, with no verdure save the repulsive cactus, the scraggy yucca, the grease-wood, and occasional splotches of mesquite. They raced on, the distance between them lessening gradually. Masten could feel his pony failing.
I don't know, however, that " he broke off to throw a glance at a woman who had just entered the restaurant a divesting glance that caused Romarin to redden to his crown and drop his eyes. "I was going to say that you may think as little of my history as I do of yours. Supple woman that; when the rather scraggy blonde does take it into her head to be a devil she's the worst kind there is...."
Yet they romance, in their way, on rural subjects: "A la campagne," says one of their poets, "ou chaque feuille qui tombe est une elegie toute faite." Through an avenue of scraggy poplars we approach a dilapidated chateau, whose owner is playing dominoes at the cafe of the nearest provincial town, or exhausting the sparse revenues of the estate at the theatres, roulette-tables, or balls of Paris.
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