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"Yes, dear, but that ain't all. I must put on my great-coat and I must look and see if I can find any money " "O yes for the post-office. It's a beautiful day, grandpa. Cynthy! won't you come and help grandpa on with his great-coat? And I'll go out and keep watch of the old mare till you're ready." A needless caution.
"And we must keep a good lookout, ourselves, that our bandboxes and bundles don't fall off behind," replied the Dominie, faintly. "Yes; and you can put the small trunk under my feet, and the big basket under your own, and you will keep an eye on my red shawl, and pray don't lose the umbrella, nor your great-coat, nor your cane. I will, on my part, see to these three small bundles, and my parasol.
And so again, according to Lord Houghton, he said in later life: "I have spent enough and fought enough for other nations. I must think a little of myself. I want to sit under my own bramble and sloe-tree with my own great-coat and umbrella." This is no fatty degeneration of the chivalrous spirit. It is merely the old doctrine of Non-intervention speaking in a lighter tone.
'Shut the door, boy, said Muriel Baggaley. 'On which side of me? said John Thomas. 'Which tha likes, said Polly Birkin. He had come in and closed the door behind him. The girls moved in their circle, to make a place for him near the fire. He took off his great-coat and pushed back his hat. 'Who handles the teapot? he said. Nora Purdy silently poured him out a cup of tea.
She drew back and looked round for Sarah. While she stood fluttering, the footsteps came close, and there emerged from the passage into the full light of the gas-lamp Alfred and two policemen carrying a silent senseless figure in a night-gown, with a great-coat thrown over part of him. It was her father, mute and ghastly.
But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no longer there. The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand.
His fellow pedestrian was about six feet high, and of a corresponding girth of limb and frame, which would have made him fearful odds in any encounter where bodily strength was the best means of conquest. Notwithstanding the mildness of the weather, he was closely buttoned in a rough great-coat, which was well calculated to give all due effect to the athletic proportions of the wearer.
The plan of leaving all luggage behind, a capital idea, would enable him to go forth freely and unshackled, with an ordinary air, in hat and great-coat, as for an evening's walk; and was quite in keeping with the natural reserve of his whole character a bad habit of secresy, which he probably inherited from his father, the lieutenant of old times.
"Ah, Your Excellency," he concluded his epistle, "I am an orphan, I had no one to love me as a child and all held aloof from me ... and I myself destroyed the only heart that gave itself to me!" Semyon found in the pocket of Tyeglev's great-coat a little album from which his master was never separated.
Jadwin was out in the stables. She saw him through the window, in a cap and great-coat, talking with the coachman and looking over one of the horses. But he came back to the house in a little while, and she found him in his smoking-room with a novel in his hand. "Oh, I read that last week," she said, as she caught a glimpse of the title. "Isn't it interesting? Don't you think it is good?"