Capitolo 14
There he stopped again. In a splay of stone on which grapevines were
becoming green, a small individual seasoned from wind and suns, with a
expression opens and friendly, as the sky, was pouring out his/her height
heart.
The instant that the men have entered sight, the song was broken away. The sturdy
figure turned on and jumped in ahead with the instinct of business. When
some one made a break and it now looked interrogatorily at him as this man it did, it
wanted papers to say and penny. Its investigation was rather without breath:
"Does he/she want a paper, Mr.? What do you/they carpet he/she wants? I can find him one
on the avenue in one minute."
He was standing, while looking above at the man, vigilant, able, without fear, insinuating.
The men had immediately taken note of the oratorical voice that is often a
surer first criterion to pass that the voice that sings same. Him
the declared sincere, strong, true, sweet, victorious. It is very quickly
also him been decided that conditions are due to be rare and
fortunate with the young fellow to his/her birth: blood will say, and blood said
now also in this garbage and in these rags.
His replies it annoyed testimony to as thankful it felt of everybody that has faced him
him there so humanly on the stone.
"Thanks", he said, "I have read the papers."
You being cleared so of some of the words of the young fellow, he addressed a pointed
you question to the rest:
"But as it happened to call me gentleman? I thought that head was that that You
few New-Yorkers it generally said."
"I am not a New-Yorker", it announced the young fellow, with courtesy ready and good
nature. "I don't say head. We am Southern. I say gentleman."
He gave an unfavorable glance to the man as if of a mind to take his/her truth
measure; also as being of a mind to leave the man he/she knows that he didn't have
taken the measure of the boy.
The men smiled to being correct to so good purpose; but before him
you/he/she could speak again, the young fellow followed to confirm his/her correction:
"And I only say gentleman when I am selling papers and they am not at home."