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He clipped, pasted and pinned, looked up statistics, verified statements and ruthlessly weeded out every little vagrant fancy that dared intrude on the solemn company of facts. But his efforts when finished bore the same relation to Cropsie's that a pile of bricks does to a house. Only once had he set Cropsie and his lapboard literature aside, and followed his own impulse.
The Baron caught himself. His face went a trifle pinker, but his mouth was hard under the clipped white moustache and the heavy brows were level. "I will tell you what has happened," he said deliberately. "I will try to make it intelligible to you." He held up the ivory paper-knife, its slender yellow blade strained in his two hands. "That is Germany to-day," he said, "bending."
Madame Bavoil, as being used to convent ways, pushed open the door which stood ajar, and Durtal saw before him a paved walk between strips of river pebbles, dividing a garden stocked with fruit-trees and geraniums. Two yews, clipped into spheres, with a cross on the top of each, gave this priestly close a graveyard flavour. The path led upwards, cut into steps.
During this procedure, the door of the post-office opened and Peter Knight appeared. He was about forty-five years old, very tall, very, very thin, and as straight as he was thin. Thick, closely clipped gray hair stood up straight from his forehead. His eyes were deep sunk in his head and a piercing, light blue.
"I'll go no further with you," she cried. "Set me down at once or I'll scream for help." "You pretty little fool. Much help you'll get here. Oh, you shall look if you want to, but your wings must be clipped first." He gripped both her wrists and held them fast. Her frightened eyes glanced through the window.
They've had too much of everything, except bracing experience." "Children can always be educated," said Crupp. "I said SPOILT children," said Thorns. "Look here, Thorns!" said I. "If this Budget row leads to a storm, and these big people get their power clipped, what's going to happen? Have you thought of that? When they go out lock, stock, and barrel, who comes in?"
Fine old trees, singly, in groups, in thick plantations; beautiful fields; level clipped hedges; flowers springing everywhere, under the hedges, in little front gardens, up the banks.
Now no physician would like to have his wings clipped by a patient, even indirectly, and without doubt the man's pride was piqued as his incompetence was thus made plain. Thereafter, when he passed through the ward, he and I had frequent tilts.
Barker surveyed his work the clipped head, the new hat, the shiny boots and the rose with a satisfied air, such as Mr. Barnum may have worn when he landed Jumbo on the New York pier. Then he called a cab, and they drove away. The summer breath of the roses blew sweetly in through the long windows of the Countess's morning-room from the little garden outside as Barker and Claudius entered.
But a boy like Nino is afraid of nothing when he is in love, and he simply looked about him, realising that he was without doubt in the house of a gran' signor, and from time to time brushing a particle of dust from his clothes, or trying to smooth his curly black hair, which he had caused to be clipped a little for the occasion; a very needless expense, for he looks better with his hair long.
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