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The girl took up a small volume that lay on the top of the harpsichord, and thrust it into her mother's hands. "Eh? What?" Lady Caroline turned the book back uppermost and spelled out the title through her eyeglass. "'Ovid' he's Latin, is he not? Dear, I had no notion that you kept up your studies in that er tongue." "I do not.
Whitney, as Polly, feeling unusually awkward and shy, stumbled across the library to get within the kind arms awaiting her. "One of the children that your kindness received in this house?" said the tall lady, making good use of the eyeglass. The color mounted steadily on Polly's already rosy cheek, at the scrutiny now going on with the greatest freedom.
"Of course I mean to live at Barracombe," said Peter, polishing his eyeglass with reckless energy. "But I said nothing to the people about living there all the year round. On the contrary, I think it more probable that I shall run up to town myself, occasionally just for the season."
His speech hung in mid-air, and he stood nervously tapping his fingers with his eyeglass. 'No, please remain, exclaimed Beatrice. 'Aunt, you are not against me? Mrs. Birks, you won't refuse to believe what I have told you? The two ladies glanced at each other. In Mrs. Baxendale's look there was appeal. 'Indeed, I believe you implicitly, my dear Beatrice, said Mrs. Birks.
Yes: to-day the iron horse has searched the country through east and west, north and south bringing with it Commercialism, whose god is Jerry, and who studs the hills with stucco and garrotes the streams with the girder. Bringing, too, into every nook and corner fashion and chatter, the tailor-made gown and the eyeglass.
The excellence of Denry's cigar also helped. It atoned for the breadth of his accent. He said to himself: "I'll have a bit of a chat with this johnny." And then he said aloud: "Not a bad train this!" "No!" the eyeglass agreed languidly. "Pity they give you such a beastly dinner!" And Denry agreed hastily that it was.
Captain Sharpland his name was, and later on, when the Americans mutinied, he was accused of treating them harshly, but my grandfather said that a kinder-hearted man never stepped. "Hallo," says Captain Sharpland, halting and putting up his eyeglass. "Why, Mugford, whatever is the meaning of this?" "You'd best ask the Jew here, sir," my grandfather answered, nursing his sulks.
A bright blue coat, lively-coloured waistcoat, and light-green silk handkerchief fastened with two sparkling pins, united to each other by a gold chain, check trowsers, and polished French leather boots, composed his attire. He wore an eyeglass though he was not short-sighted, and a beautifully inlaid riding-whip though he never rode.
Murray murmured to him, with a wave of her eyeglass to the alcove. "So useful for tableaux and plays, you know. Awfully clever of Lady Pynsent to use the room in that way. There used once to be folding doors, you know barbarous, wasn't it? Who would use doors when curtains could be had?" "Doors are useful sometimes," said Sydney.
The upper part of her cheek was rose-coloured. She had, like a man, thrust in between two buttons of her bodice a tortoise-shell eyeglass. When Charles, after bidding farewell to old Rouault, returned to the room before leaving, he found her standing, her forehead against the window, looking into the garden, where the bean props had been knocked down by the wind. She turned round.
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