[The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cock-House at Fellsgarth CHAPTER TWO 12/23
The head must be tilted a little to one side.
One eyebrow must be raised and the opposite corner of the mouth turned down.
One knee should be slightly bent; the first finger and thumb of one hand should rest gracefully in the waistcoat pocket, and the other hand should be free for gesture. All these points Fisher minor attended to now as carefully as his nervousness would permit, and felt half amused at the thought of how comic the fellows must think him. "Do you--" he began. But at this point Ranger unfeelingly interrupted, and put the vocalist completely out. "Did you say `Oh no' or `How now' ?" "Oh no," repeated the singer. "You mean h-o-w n-o-w ?" "Oh no; it's o-h n-o." "Thanks--sorry to interrupt.
Fire away." Fisher tried to get himself back into attitude, and began again in a thin treble voice;-- Do you think I'm just as green as grass! Oh no! Do you take me for a silly ass! Oh no! Do you think I don't know A from B! Do you think I can't tell he from she! Do you think I swallow all I see? Oh no--not me! He was bewildered by the unearthly silence of his audience.
No one stirred a muscle except Wheatfield, who was apparently wiping away a tear.
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