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She wondered if this consideration troubled the old man. Trouble there was, of some sort: he called at the house three days running for a word with Richard. He wore a brand-new pair of shepherd's-plaid trousers, a choker that his work-stained hands had soiled in tying, a black coat, a massive gold watch-chain.
'In breeches and gaiters, broad-brimmed hat, grey coat, speckled choker, said the waiter. 'No, I said bashfully, 'I haven't the pleasure 'He came in here, said the waiter, looking at the light through the tumbler, 'ordered a glass of this ale WOULD order it I told him not drank it, and fell dead. It was too old for him. It oughtn't to be drawn; that's the fact.
They liked the Autunois at least what they saw of it exceedingly, but they suffered much from the heat, particularly our uncle, who had remained true to his youthful style of dress: high shirt- collar sawing the ears and stiffened by a white, starched choker, rolled several times about the neck; black cloth trousers, long black waistcoat, and ample riding-coat of the same color and material.
Some sort of Zulu missionary is up there, too, and I saw him nobly washing a cooking-pot for his family, dressed in little but his white clerical choker and a sort of undivided skirt. A few white families have gone to the same place, and I helped some of them to construct their new homes in the rocks amidst great merriment.
"Or old shiny-togs?" "Who?" "Shiny-togs you know the bloke with the choker." "I don't know who you mean." "Go on! you know 'im 'im as jaws in the church with 'is nightgown on." "Oh, the clergyman," said Jack, hardly able to repress a smile. "No. I'll take you back to your home." "To my old gal?" "Yes, to your mother." "You ain't a 'avin' a lark with me, then?" "No," said Jack, pitifully.
He entered the drawing-room a tall, lean man, all in ungainly black, with a white choker, with either a black wig, or black hair dressed in imitation of one, a pair of spectacles, and a dark, sharp, short visage, rubbing his large hands together, and with a short brisk nod to me, whom he plainly regarded merely as a child, he sat down before the fire, crossed his legs, and took up a magazine.
The Gangs of Three that waylay the solitary pedestrian, the Choker in the middle, next the victim who is to be strangled and cleaned out, the larger guilds of Hustlers who bonnet a man and beat his breath out of him and empty his pockets before he knows what is the matter with him, the Burglars, with their "jimmies" in their pockets, the fighting robbers, with their brass knuckles, the whole set in a vast thief-constituency, thick as rats in sewers, these were the disputants whom the emissaries of the Slave Power called upon to refute the arguments of the Brooklyn clergyman.
Resplendent swell! untwine thy choker white, and I will either stand a glass of grog, or thou shalt pay the like for me, my lad, and tell us of the fashionable world."
The two boys went up the hill to the Academy with the bag which one of them had found in the creek and had an interview with Dr. Wise. The doctor looked his name in some respects and in others he did not. He was a tall, spare man, dressing habitually in solemn black and a huge white choker, his face being clean shaven and showing the firmness of his chin and his square, well-set jaws.
When they returned it was nearly midnight. Cully had taken off his "choker," as he called it, and had curled it outside his hat, They had walked over from the show, and the tight clutch of the collar greatly interfered with Cully's discussion of the wonderful things he had seen. Besides, the mule had ruined it completely for a second use.