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Sapt put his hand on the beast's head. There was a bullet-hole right through his forehead. I nodded, and in my turn pointed to the dog's right shoulder, which was shattered by another ball. "And see here," said the constable. "Have a pull at this." I looked where his hand now was. In the dog's mouth was a piece of gray cloth, and on the piece of gray cloth was a horn coat-button.
"I," said Psmith, breathing on a coat-button, and polishing it with his handkerchief. "Can you play cricket?" "You have discovered," said Psmith, "my secret sorrow." "You're rotting." "You wrong me, Comrade Jackson." "Then why haven't you played?" "Why haven't you?" "Why didn't you come and play for Lower Borlock, I mean?"
I'll bet he'd have been sick if chappies had refused to let him have tick when he was starting his store. Do you suppose Harrod, when he started in business, paid cash down on the nail for everything? Not a bit of it. He went about taking people by the coat-button and asking them to be good chaps and wait till Wednesday week. Trifling!
Every principle of justice and equity requires, that, those who are totally unprotected by birth, station, wealth, friends, influence, and popular favor, and especially those who are the innocent objects of public contempt and prejudice, should be more vigilantly protected by law, than those who are so fortified by defence, that they have far less need of legal protection; yet the poor slave who is fortified by none of these personal bulwarks, is denied the protection of law, while the master, surrounded by them all, is panoplied in the mail of legal protection, even to the hair of his head; yea, his very shoe-tie and coat-button are legal protegees.
He turned to the movie-magnate, who was gradually emerging from the fruit-salad rather after the manner of a stout Venus rising from the sea. "Can you spare me a moment of your valuable time?" "I'll have him arrested!" "Don't you do it, laddie. Listen!" "The man's mad. Throwing pies!" Archie attached himself to his coat-button. "Be calm, laddie. Calm and reasonable!" For the first time Mr.
Nervously I used the right hand to button up my coat, and then put it out of mischief in my pocket. "Good God, man!" cried the Head. "Take that hand out of your pocket!" I took it quickly out and unbuttoned one coat-button: then, for lack of something to do with the hand, did the button up again. I decided to keep the miserable member fingering the button.
The idea was that I might get hold of something in America " He got hold of Mr. Brewster's coat-button, and was again shaken off. "Between ourselves, I've never done anything much in England, and I fancy the family were getting a bit fed. At any rate, they sent me over here " Mr. Brewster disentangled himself for the third time.
A man's coat-button dropped on the floor of a railway carriage, for instance, and a young woman who slyly picks it up silly little gage d'amour and kisses it when a considerate observer pretends not to be looking, and hides it away! Is that evidence, Major Mole?" "By the Living Tinker!" he thundered, "I wouldn't have believed it of her!" "Of course you wouldn't!" She rummaged in an open suit-case.
She loved to be included by the young Carrolls when they protested, "Just ourselves, Mother, nobody but the family!" and if Phil or Jimmy came to her when a coat-button was loose or a sleeve-lining needed a stitch, she was quite pathetically touched.
They made a thorough search, but, of course, failed to find any of the acrobatic youth's belongings. "He must have lost them farther back," said Pepper. "Let us look with care as we walk along." This they did, but arrived at the school without finding anything but a coat-button and a yellow lead pencil. Then they walked past the school in the direction of Cedarville.
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