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How the rough calf backs were crumbling away! The rusty red-leather dust had come off on his coat-sleeves; he really was not fit to be seen, and he took some minutes more to brush it all off. So it was that Canon Parkyn chafed at being kept waiting in the clergy-vestry, and greeted Mr Sharnall on his appearance with a certain tartness: "I wish you could be a little quicker when you are sent for.
He now put his hat upon another chair beside him, and, looking down into it as if it were some twenty feet deep, said again: 'You see I thought I'd give you a call. 'Flattering to us, said Fanny, 'for you are not a calling man. 'No no, returned Mr Merdle, who was by this time taking himself into custody under both coat-sleeves. 'No, I am not a calling man.
After a little he went to sleep, but the nausea continued, nevertheless, and in a few moments he gagged and vomited. He never moved. He was too drunk to wake. His hands and his coat-sleeves, the table all about him, were foul beyond words, but he slept on in the midst of it all, inert, stupefied, a great swarm of flies buzzing about his head and face.
Coat-sleeves began to do duty across moist eyes; seeing we all being simple Basins winged white forms in the still air outside the battered schoolhouse, bearing worn, earth-weary forms away "Gathered with the lost in Paradise." It was not so hard to speak now.
He was a very tall, thin boy, about fifteen years old, with a dark face and narrow twinkling black eyes. All his clothes were ragged, and none of them seemed to fit him properly, for his coat-sleeves were inconveniently long, and his trousers so short that they showed several inches of brown bony ankles.
I had a hazy notion that somehow my being with him might protect him in case of any untoward happening, and minimize his risks. I ran into his bedroom and clapped his best hat on my head, leaving my biretta on his bed; and I put on his new dark overcoat over my cassock. Both the borrowed garments were too big for me, the hat coming down over my ears, the coat-sleeves over my hands.
It was of very heavy silk, yellow, with a pale blue stripe and there were nearly a dozen of them. He stared involuntarily at his own shirt-cuffs they were ragged and linty at the edges and soiled to a faint gray. Dropping the silk shirt, he held his coat-sleeves down and worked the frayed shirt-cuffs up till they were out of sight.
But sufficient of this wretched old hay remained adhesive to the inside of the breeches and coat-sleeves, to produce the most irritating torment. The grand moral question now came up, what to do with the purse. Would it be dishonest under the circumstances to appropriate that purse?
Gibbon," she began again, and smiled encouragingly upon him, "you are of far more importance to us than Mr. Reginald Forcus is ever likely to be." "I thank you for telling me that," he said, and his fingers strained tighter upon his coat-sleeves. Then he lifted his eyes and looked at her as she sat, perched with ease and grace among the tea-cups on the kitchen table.
All at once, Regina slipped there was a sheet of ice across the road struggled to regain her footing, fell, and would have thrown her rider had not a man, walking leisurely along, sprung forward and caught her in his arms. Rose was unhurt, and extricating herself from the stranger's coat-sleeves, rose also.
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