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She asked him to pull out what she had chosen from the débris, and a curious collection they made in the passage dim and worm-eaten pictures, small book-cases, broken vases which she proposed mending. Hubert wiped the dust from his hands and coat-sleeves. 'What a lot of things you have given me! Now we shall be able to get on nicely with our furnishing. 'What furnishing?
"A hundred cash," answered the thread of a voice from the head on the ground buried in the coat-sleeves. "Well, then, give him a hundred strokes, to teach him to do better next time!" As a hundred cash is equivalent to one penny-halfpenny, to my mind, the verdict was a little severe, but, as there is no knowing what is good for other people, I remained a silent spectator.
Henry Dunbar wore a fashionable greatcoat with loose open cuffs, and it was towards these loose cuffs that Mr. Hartgold's eyes wandered with rapid and rather uneasy glances. He was apt to look doubtfully at gentlemen with roomy coat-sleeves, or ladies with long-haired muffs or fringed parasols.
Oh, Miss Angelina! He is like the Christ-Child himself!" "Call me Aunt Angelina," said Miss Terry with a quick breath. "Aunt Angelina," cried the child, throwing her arms about Miss Terry's neck. Tom came and put his great furry coat-sleeves about them both. "And Uncle Tom," he said. "Dear Uncle Tom!" whispered the child shyly. There were tears in the eyes of all three.
It was a comfort to think what a Methuselah he must be; and yet, if he will excuse the personality, he looked as rosy and smooth-faced as when he used to stand me outside his door with my coat-sleeves turned inside out. It was a way he had. Well, the presence of that particular master made me feel an Adonis forthwith. I will not go into the prizes.
So prepared, he would sit down and smoke his pipe quite silently, glaring at all, and jumping up, and hitching up his coat-sleeves, when anyone entered the room. The "Kidneys" did not like this behaviour. Clinker ceased to come. Bustard, the poulterer, ceased to come.
He was dressed in black, with an ample shirt-front and a narrow black cravat tied in an angular bow; the wristbands were almost tight on the wrists, and, owing to the shortness of the alpaca coat-sleeves, they were very visible even as Darius Clayhanger stood, with his two hands deep in the horizontal pockets of his `full-fall' trousers.
"O, papa!" said Dotty, springing into his arms, while her sisters seized him by the coat-sleeves, "you ought to have a birthday to-night, we've got such a splendid supper!" "Sthop!" cried Katie. "I's talking. Cake, and verjerves, and f'owers, and butter!" "And Susy's been practising the 'Blue Violet's Carol," said Prudy. "Yes, her packus, uncle Ed'ard!"
They felt lonely and deserted. Jordan shut himself up in his room. It was rare now that he took his accustomed evening walks; his coat-sleeves and the ends of his trouser legs had become more and more frayed. He pined away; his hair became snow white, his walk unsteady, his eye dim. But he was never ill, and he never complained of his fate. He never said anything at the table; he was a quiet man.
So, one morning, he obtained permission to go out, under the guardianship of Charley Bates and the Dodger. The three boys sallied out; the Dodger with his coat-sleeves tucked up, and his hat cocked as usual; Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets; and Oliver between them, wondering where they were going, and what branch of manufacture he would be instructed in, first.
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