United States or Guinea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He then borrowed a handkerchief, produced an orange out of the handkerchief, a vegetable-marrow out of the orange, a gibus hat out of the vegetable-marrow, a live sucking-pig out of the gibus hat, five hundred yards of coloured paper out of the sucking-pig, a Union-jack twelve feet by ten out of the bunch of paper, and a wardrobe with real doors and full of ladies' dresses out of the Union-jack.
Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes. Regular snorts. And then she was always smilin'. And she talked an awful lot about Goethe and Schiller, and those chaps. Altogether, I cried off, and told the governor I would try the Colonies.
It was my last thought as I sank, exquisitely drowning, in the sea of sensations caused by Ispenlove's presence. Without a word, we passed together into the drawing-room, and I closed the door. Ispenlove stood leaning against the piano, as though intensely fatigued; he crushed his gibus with an almost savage movement, and then bent his large, lustrous black eyes absently on the flat top of it.
Nothing shocked her except Henry's ignorance of all the most interesting things in the world. 'Well, what do you think of a French "revue," my son? asked Tom when he returned with Loulou. 'Don't know, said Henry, with his gibus tipped a little backward. 'Haven't seen it. We've been talking. The music's a fearful din. He felt nearly as Parisian as Tom looked.
They did not forget strong shoes with gaiters, "two pairs of braces" each "on account of perspiration," and, although one cannot present himself everywhere in a cap, they shrank from the expense of "one of those folding hats, which bear the name of 'Gibus, their inventor." The same work gives precepts for conduct: "To know the language of the part of the country you visit": they knew it.
The craziness of the gibus hats beats description. Some were very tall, the shaft crowned with a platform larger than the head, like the shako of an Imperial Lancer; others very low, ending in an inverted cone the mouth of a blunderbuss or a Polish schapska.
This fact certainly ought to make you decide to share our solitude. Our friend is so poetical, so witty, so charming. He has but one fault, that of being a civilized Don Quixote de la Mancha; instead of the helmet of Mambrino he wears a Gibus hat, a Buisson coat instead of a cuirass, a Verdier cane by way of a lance.
He did leave the house. He saw Lady Glencora taken to her carriage from some back hiding-place in the hall, and then slipped out, unmindful of his shining boots, and dress coat and jewelled studs. He took a Gibus hat, his own, or that of some other unfortunate, and slowly made his way down to the place in Bruton Street.
Marinelli, who was to be seen at her side, wearing a Gibus hat and curling a pair of gigantic black mustaches. Maurice listened to the music and the chatter which, silenced by the arrival of the music, had now burst forth again, with rather indifferent ears. He wanted to get away somewhere and to be alone with Maddalena. The day was passing on. Soon night would be falling.
Word Of The Day