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The way grew every moment more dingy. The heavy clouds above the thick foliage brought night on prematurely. It was decidedly premature to a near-sighted man, whose glasses the rain rendered useless: such a person ought to be at home early. On leaving the river bank I had borne to the left, so as to be sure to strike either the clearing or the road, and not wander off into the measureless forest.
Adam asked. He looked thoughtful when Alvarez told him, and then nodded. "All right. You'll get some of the guns to-morrow and another lot is on the way. Go ahead; I'll help you put the business over." Alvarez filled the little glasses with a liquor that had a strong spicy smell and when his guests lifted them touched theirs with his. "It is what I had hoped, my friend.
He drew out his handkerchief, polished his glasses, returned the handkerchief, and paused suggestively. Mr. Pascoe was assured that he was the leading attraction at the trial of Ambrose Doane, and that the humming crowd which filled every corner of the court-room had come for the express purpose of hearing him, the famous advocate from the East, sum up for the crown.
The fact of M. M F 's wanting forty guineas did not make me divine that he was in some straits, for I looked at everything through rose-coloured glasses, and was only too happy to be of service to him. I made a slight dinner in order to have a better appetite for supper, and spent the afternoon in writing letters.
The thing that makes me snappy is the lack of an oriental rug in our parlor." "You're looking at that through Mrs. Gilbert's magnifying glasses," suggested the doctor. "I'm not looking at it at all, and that's the trouble," Marietta had assured him. "Absence makes the heart " the doctor had the last word. Lydia tried this morning at breakfast to obtain the same advantage over her sister.
As William said, so it was. We could see by our glasses they were all in a hurry, manning and fitting some sloops they had there, and a large man-of-war, and it was plain they would soon be with us.
"The top of the headland may be inaccessible, m'lord. We may find that they Heh! what's that?" He leaned forward to peer through his glasses at a second headland that was swinging into view around the corner of the cliffs. "Smoke!" he cried. "Smoke! and a flag!" "Gad!" murmured Lord James, hastily bringing his own glasses to bear. The second headland was about five miles away.
Each quart of ice cream will serve, in dessert plates, four persons. In stem ice cream dishes, silver or glass, it will serve six persons. A quart of ice or sherbet will fill ten small sherbet stem glasses, to serve with the meat course at dinner. This quantity will serve in lemonade glasses eight persons.
After this they took a stroll up and down the street, and were bored, and went into the estaminet again, and ordered five more glasses of porto. It was then the trouble began. But it was not the Australian who began it. It was the woman behind the bar. She served five glasses more of porto and asked for thirty centimes each. "Twenty centimes," said the Australian. "Vingt, Madame." "Mais non!
Walters opened the note, adjusted his glasses and read it. He started with surprise, read the note through again, then turned round as though in search of the writer. When he saw Crewe he raised his eyebrows interrogatively, and the detective nodded emphatically. Mr. Lethbridge sat down, having finished his examination of Kemp. Mr.
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