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Come here! Spicca! Stop! Excuse me I am in a great hurry!" Count Spicca, whom he thus addressed, paused and looked round through his single eyeglass in some surprise. He was an immensely tall and cadaverous-looking man, with a black beard and searching grey eyes.
When a man makes a speech like Lessingham's any girl would go away with him, and be proud to. When you are endowed with such great powers as he is, and use them for such lofty purposes, she'll walk away with you, but, till then, never. He was at his old trick of polishing his eyeglass. 'It's bitter hard.
The young man the Honourable James Wilshaw suddenly dropped his eyeglass and assumed an anxious expression. "I say, what's wrong with them, White?" he demanded. "They're large holders of wheat, and wheat's going up all the time." "Wheat's going up because they're buying," was the dry comment. "Directly they leave off it will drop, and when it begins to drop, look out for a slump in B. & I.'s."
I have wondered where such seasonal professions recruit themselves. The eyeglass man still stands at his corner with his tray. He is, moreover, too sodden a creature to play upon a pipe. Nor is there any dwindling of shoe-lace peddlers. The merchants of popcorn have not fallen off in number, and peanuts hold up strong.
"It has not progressed," she answered; "there are enough mistakes in it now to occupy Denah for a long time." He took her basket from her, and she looked at him thoughtfully. He was just the same as usual, quiet, drawling voice, eyeglass, everything she wondered if he were ever different; how he would act, say, in her circumstances.
The eyeglass was raised to the Baron's thin nose, his small eyes glittered, his lips were pursed up, and he replied, in words as exact as if he had studied all the details of the catalogue verbatim. Their thanks were soon followed by many other questions, in which two voices alone did not join, that of Alba Steno and that of Dorsenne.
The sack was drawn down from her face quickly and skilfully. At the same time some slight sound from the door of the room made the man look half round. In the softly lighted room, against the pale silk hangings, Madame Bonanni saw a tremendous profile over a huge fair beard that was half grey, and one large and rather watery blue eye behind a single eyeglass with a broad black riband.
Now, the dear old gentleman was letting his tea grow cool beyond all remedy, while, with gold double eyeglass in hand, he read aloud various paragraphs of Irish news.
Borrowdean's fixed smile betokened nothing but an ordinary interest in the introduction of two friends, and the Duchess's back was turned towards her friends. They both waited for Mannering to speak. "This," he said, slowly, "is a surprise! I had no idea when I called to see Borrowdean here, of the pleasure which was in store for me." Borrowdean dropped his eyeglass.
He looked as he did when I last saw him, placidly good-humored, with the eyeglass dangling this time loosely by its cord. Then I drew in my breath as the music ceased, and Raymond Lyle approached us, saying: "As usual, men are at a discount, but you have not had a dance, and most of the others have. Come, and I'll find you partners.
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