The Magnificent Showboats
“The business of Coble centered on the Burse, a small square overlooked by crooked old buildings, the windows tinted purple and green with age. A hundred yards east flowed the Vissel River, and here at Bynum’s Dock was moored the Universal Pancomium, a floating museum owned by Throdorus Gassoon. The Universal Pancomium had never been reckoned a beautiful vessel, being somewhat spare and gaunt of outline, with a stern paddle-wheel powered by eighteen bullocks at three capstans, in addition to the sails which Gassoon used only under optimum conditions.
Gassoon was as spare, gaunt and graceless as his boat. His face was long and pale, his eyes were pale, small and close beside his long equine nose; his hair was an unruly shock of white tufts. He habitually wore a tight and threadbare suit of black twill with black stockings and black shoes, in unkind contrast to his pale skin and white hair. His arms and legs were lank; he walked at a lope; halting, he tended to throw his long face back l...ike a neighing horse.MoreLess
Gassoon was as spare, gaunt and graceless as his boat. His face was long and pale, his eyes were pale, small and close beside his long equine nose; his hair was an unruly shock of white tufts. He habitually wore a tight and threadbare suit of black twill with black stockings and black shoes, in unkind contrast to his pale skin and white hair. His arms and legs were lank; he walked at a lope; halting, he tended to throw his long face back l...ike a neighing horse.MoreLess
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