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"But, John dear, we can't really be sure yet that I'm the one who ought to do it. And and maybe there will be no room at the tables unless we hurry a little." She was buttoning up her gloves again, quite coolly, and cast approving glances at some radiographic prints on my wall. "That must have been a splendid fracture," she commented.
In the study Clotilde was buttoning her dress, holding her child, whom she had been nursing, still in her lap. It was after lunch, about three o'clock on a hot sunny day at the end of August, and through the crevices of the carefully closed shutters only a few scattered sunbeams entered, piercing the drowsy and warm obscurity of the vast apartment.
"And what do you say?" asked Joan, turning upon the major. "I? Oh, nothing!" replied that soldier, with perfect truthfulness. "Then what are you going to do?" asked Joan, who was practical, and, like many practical people, rather given to hasty action. "We are going to stick to the malgamiters," replied Tony, quietly. "Through thick and thin?" inquired Marguerite, buttoning her glove.
Heron, getting up, and buttoning his yellow gloves reflectively. "I should have no objection. I judge for myself, don't you know, by the face and the manner and all that sort of thing; but it's a different thing when it comes to dealing with women, you know. They are so particular " "I am afraid I should not suit Mrs. Heron's requirements," said Stretton, in a very quiet tone.
The spectral figures, as you call them, are a little too real for me to fancy a close proximity in the darkness, unarmed, too." The others rose, buttoning their overcoats, and lighting cigars. "Raining, still," said Doctor May, "and hard. Where did we leave the coach, Mitchell?" "At the other side of the works. Kirby, what's that?"
Without noticing him Dolly hurriedly finished buttoning her waist, and, throwing on her sun-bonnet, she dashed out of the room. "I don't blame you for losin' patience, Miss Stella," Mrs. Drake sighed, "but I've thought it out. It is as plain as the nose on your face. You know an' I know she was tickled to death with it till she met Mr. Mostyn in the yard just now.
"Oh, Sadie," she called to the maid, "would you mind coming in here and buttoning my dress? I can't reach it from above or below." "You look just beautiful, Miss Wyatt," said Sadie, admiringly. Patty laughed. "Do you think I can uphold the honor of the nation?" "To be sure, miss," said Sadie, politely.
I left the "turba Remi sequens fortunam;" I felt agitated and feverish; those who have unexpectedly heard of the success of a man for whom great affection is blended with greater interest, can understand the restlessness of mind with which I wandered into the streets. The air was cold and nipping. I was buttoning my coat round my chest, when I heard a voice say, "You have dropped your glove, Mr.
If not we ourselves, our children at any rate may see International Congresses made possible by a few people quietly buttoning their breeches-pockets, and the march of "armed nations" arrested by "a run for gold." Taking however men as they are, it is far more wonderful that no one has hit on the enormous field which wealth opens for the developement of sheer downright mischief.
"No time to wait," Tom replied, buttoning his coat as he sped down the hall. "Oh, Tom, what is it?" asked Mrs. Baggert, the housekeeper, looking from her room. "I don't know. But don't let dad get excited, no matter what happens. Just put him off until I come back. I think it isn't anything serious." Mr. Damon, who roomed next to Ned, came out of his own apartment partially dressed.
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