lashing
himself
with an
empty blue
bag.
Deeming
that a
serene and
unconscious
contemplation
of him
would best
beseem me,
and would
be most
likely to
quell his
evil mind,
I advanced
with that
expression
of
countenance,
and was
rather
congratulating
myself on
my
success,
when
suddenly
the knees
of Trabb’s
boy smote
together,
his hair
uprose,
his cap
fell off,
he
trembled
violently
in every
limb,
staggered
out into
the road,
and crying
to the
populace,
