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He had relinquished his legal suit of black for the purposes of this excursion, and wore the old surtout and tights, but not quite with the old air. He gradually picked up more and more of it as we conversed with him; but, his very eye-glass seemed to hang less easily, and his shirt-collar, though still of the old formidable dimensions, rather drooped. 'Gentlemen! said Mr.
Charley mechanically fixed his eye-glass and stood with hands resting on the window-sill, looking, looking out upon a new world. At length he turned. "Is there anything I can do for you, M'sieu'?" said Jo huskily. Charley held out his hand and clasped Jo's. "Tell me about all these months," he said. Charley Steele saw himself as he had been through the eyes of another.
And he held up what appeared to be a large bone, perforated in several places. The bald little man with the red and green ribbon uttered an exclamation of surprise. "It is a tibia!" said he, examining it through his double eye-glass. "And what of that?" laughed Rachel. "Is it so wonderful to find one leg in a collection of arms?
Austen Chamberlain, M.P. for one of the Worcestershire divisions, is in training to walk in his father's footsteps, and to see eye to eye or I might say eye-glass to eye-glass with him in matters political. What the future of this eldest son may be it is not for me to forecast.
He adjusted his unseeing eye-glass in this wise and lisped to the clerk, because it's "Hinglish, you know," to lisp: "Thir, thir, will you have the kindness to fuhnish me with thome papah and thome envelopehs!" The clerk measured that man quick, and he pulled out a drawer and took some envelopes and paper and cast them across the counter and turned away to his books.
And the whole city has gone, I am sure! for I see nobody in the street!" She held an eye-glass coquettishly to her eye. "Nobody at all!" repeated she. Her companions accused her afterwards of glancing equivocally at the Chevalier as she made this remark; and she answered with a merry laugh that might imply either assent or denial.
He had reserved what he considered to be his greatest wonder till the last a royal Egyptian mummy, the best preserved in the world, perhaps. He took us there. He felt so sure, this time, that some of his old enthusiasm came back to him: "See, genteelmen! Mummy! Mummy!" The eye-glass came up as calmly, as deliberately as ever.
As for Good and myself, the armour did not suit us nearly so well. To begin with, Good insisted upon keeping on his new-found trousers, and a stout, short gentleman with an eye-glass, and one half of his face shaved, arrayed in a mail shirt, carefully tucked into a very seedy pair of corduroys, looks more remarkable than imposing.
With a single blow of my heel I opened that door, and opened my arms at the same time. "Thank God," cried I, "I have arrived in time. Come to these arms." The lady in white stopped, drew out an eye-glass, placed it carefully upon her nose, and taking an inventory of me from head to foot, replied: "No thank you; I prefer to come to grief in the regular way."
He was pale, and his eye-glass, with the cleanshaven face, gave an impression of refined separateness. She did not know that the same look was in both their faces. She watched him till he entered the Notary's shop, then she was called away to her duties. Charley had come to give his one-fortieth with the rest. When he entered the Notary's office, the Seigneur and M. Dauphin stood up to greet him.
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