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They are so taken up with the delights of their freedom, so absorbed in the pleasure of cycling and athletic games, so full of manly ambitions, so persuaded that the proper cultivated attitude is to be an agnostic, and to look at God and the universe through a sceptical and somewhat supercilious eyeglass, that if we did make an appeal to them such as you suggest they would only laugh at such old-fashioned notions."
Psmith sat down again, carefully tucking up the knees of his trousers, and watched him with silent interest through his eyeglass. The scrutiny irritated Mr. Downing. "Put that thing away, Smith," he said. "That thing, sir?" "Yes, that ridiculous glass. Put it away." "Why, sir?" "Why! Because I tell you to do so."
Released from Mrs Meddlechip, Gaston went in search of Kitty, and found her flirting with Felix Rolleston, who was amusing her with his gay chatter. 'This is a deuced good-looking chappie, said Mr Rolleston, fixing his eyeglass in his eye and looking critically at Gaston as he approached them; 'M. Vandeloup, isn't it? Kitty said it was.
Psmith, at the opposite end of the table, beamed in a fatherly manner upon the pair through his eyeglass. Mike got on with small girls reasonably well. He preferred them at a distance, but, if cornered by them, could put up a fairly good show. Small boys, however, filled him with a sort of frozen horror.
On the day of the drawing-room meeting a large company gathered in the hall at Belgrave Square. Lady Robert Ure, back from the honeymoon, received the guests for her mother, whose weak heart and a headache kept her upstairs. Her husband stood aside, chewing the end of his mustache and looking through his eyeglass with a gleam of amused interest in his glittering eye.
The doctor bowed. If the expression may be pardoned, he was one of those carefully constructed physicians in whom the public especially the female public implicitly trust. He had the necessary bald head, the necessary double eyeglass, the necessary black clothes, and the necessary blandness of manner, all complete. His voice was soothing, his ways were deliberate, his smile was confidential.
In among the thickets the German thought he caught a glimpse of his hostess, put up his eyeglass, made a sign to his young companion to be silent, and turned back, stepping softly. "What did you see?" asked the journalist. "Nothing particular," said the clerk. "Our affair of the long article is settled. To-morrow we shall have at least three columns in the Debats."
No sooner did the man of money perceive Abellino at the open door than he put down the paper which he was reading without the aid of an eyeglass, and, advancing to meet him to the very threshold, greeted him with the most engaging affability. "Monseigneur," replied Monsieur Griffard, with similar pleasantry, "I am your servant to the very depths of my cellar." "Ha, ha, ha! Well said, well said!
'Oh, indeed! said Vandeloup, smoothly, turning to him; 'do you think she had anything to do with it? 'Of course not, said Rolleston, who had just entered, 'she had no reason to kill the woman. Vandeloup smiled. 'So logical you are, he murmured, 'you want a reason for everything. 'Naturally, retorted Felix, fixing in his eyeglass, 'there is no effect without a cause.
Madame Langai clapped to her eyeglass and, with the air of one who had made up his mind once for all, replied instantly: "I would not allow a decent chambermaid to become Baron Hátszegi's wife, let alone a Henrietta Lapussa." "And what is your opinion, Mr. Lawyer?" enquired the old man turning to Mr. Sipos.
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