Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . ast got nice andbrown. What a pity, thought Gluck, my brothers neverask anybody to dinner! Im sure when theyve gotsuch a nice piece of mutton as this, and nobody elsehas got so much as a dry piece of bread, it would dotheir hearts good to have somebody to eat it withthem. Just as he spoke there came a double knock at thehouse door, yet heavy and dull, as though the knockerhad been tied up—more like a puff than a knock. It must be the wind, said Gluck; nobody elsewould venture to knock double knocks at our door. No, it wasnt the wind;
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . ast got nice andbrown. What a pity, thought Gluck, my brothers neverask anybody to dinner! Im sure when theyve gotsuch a nice piece of mutton as this, and nobody elsehas got so much as a dry piece of bread, it would dotheir hearts good to have somebody to eat it withthem. Just as he spoke there came a double knock at thehouse door, yet heavy and dull, as though the knockerhad been tied up—more like a puff than a knock. It must be the wind, said Gluck; nobody elsewould venture to knock double knocks at our door. No, it wasnt the wind; there it came again veryhard, and what was particularly astonishing, theknocker seemed to be in a hurry, and not to be at allafraid of the consequences. Gluck went to the window,opened it, and put his head out to see who it was. THE BLACK BROTHERS 233 It was the most extraordinary looking gentlemanhe had even seen in his life. He had a very large nose,slightly brass-colored; his cheeks were very round andvery red, and one might have supposed that he had. been blowing a refractory fire for the last eight-and-forty hours; his eyes twinkled merrily through longsilky eyelashes, his mustaches curled twice round likea corkscrew on each side of his mouth, and his hair,of a curious mixed pepper-and-salt color, descendedfar over his shoulders. He was about four feet six in height, and wore aconical pointed cap of nearly the same altitude, deco-rated with a black feather some three feet high. Hisdoublet was prolonged behind into something resem-bling a violent exaggeration or what is now termed a 234 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE swallow tail, but was much obscured by the swell-ing folds of an enormous black, glossy-looking cloak,which must have been very much too long in calmweather, as the wind, whistling round the old house,carried it clear out from the wearers shoulders toabout four times his own length. secluded: apart from others.—Styria: part of the Austro-Hungarianempire. The
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