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It was a shrivelled human hand, and about the thumb and forefinger there still dryly hung a fragment of lint which had bandaged a jagged wound. On one of the shrunken fingers was a ring set with a large opal. Inspector Bristol broke the oppressive silence. "You see, sir," he said, addressing the Commissioner, "this marks a new complication in the case.
"Guess she's a millionaire if that's her own money she's been figgering," said Stevens. "Notice that figger there!" He pointed with a stubby forefinger. "Pretty near a billion, ain't it?" "Seven hundred and fifty thousand," said Aldous. He was thinking of the "pound" sign. She had not looked like the Englishwomen he had met. He folded the slip of paper and put it in his pocket.
"Look here, Nute," said the Cap'n, rising and aiming his forefinger at the constable's nose as he would have levelled a bulldog revolver, "if you and them wimmen think you're goin' to use me as a pie-fork to lift hot dishes out of an oven that they've heated, you'd better leave go that's all I've got to say."
If he can't take care of himself he mustn't look to me that's all." Biting the corner of his forefinger he stole a cold, sharp look at his daughter-in-law. He encountered her eyes fixed on his own, so dark and deep, that he stopped, and broke into a gentle perspiration.
It lost nothing in the telling Kelly wasn't that kind of man he told them what Toddles had done, and he left nothing out; and he added that they had Toddles on a mattress in the baggage car, with a doctor they had discovered amongst the passengers looking after him. At the end, Carleton tamped down the dottle in the bowl of his pipe thoughtfully with his forefinger and glanced at Donkin.
After tea, we sat at the window on the look-out, as I imagined, from my aunt's sharp expression of face, for more invaders until dusk, when Janet set candles, and a backgammon-board, on the table, and pulled down the blinds. 'Now, Mr. Dick, said my aunt, with her grave look, and her forefinger up as before, 'I am going to ask you another question. Look at this child. 'David's son? said Mr.
Spasm now followed spasm till he was in convulsions, rolling on the floor and yellowing his face and hair in the mustard. Matt laughed hoarsely at the sight, but the laugh broke midway. A tremor had run through his body. A new paroxysm was beginning. He arose and staggered across to the sink, where, with probing forefinger, he vainly strove to assist the action of the emetic.
The kid's little tin pop-shooter explodes right in his hand before he can crook his forefinger twice, and while he's a-wondering what-all has happened Cock-eye gets his two guns on him, slow and deliberate like, mind you, and throws forty-eights into him till he ain't worth shooting at no more.
At the door of a draper's she got down from the gig, and told her father not to wait for her on going home. Cæsar moistened his forefinger and held it in the air a moment. "Then don't be late," said he, "there's weather coming." A few minutes afterwards she was walking rapidly up Ballure. Passing Ballure House, she found herself treading softly. It was like holy ground.
Archie showed the Frenchman how to carry his candle in the miner's manner, so that it could not go out, which consisted in holding it low down between the forefinger and third finger, so that the hollow palm of the hand formed a kind of shield; and then Vandeloup, hearing the sound of falling water close to him, asked what it was, whereupon Archie explained it was for ventilating purposes.
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