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They were Black Buffalo, the chief of the Kiowas, and his daughter, accompanied by twenty warriors. Black Buffalo, and indeed all the Kiowa tribe, were well acquainted with Uncle Kit and had great respect for him. So a general hand-shaking and pow-wow followed. Carson spoke their language as well as they could, and consequently had no difficulty conversing with them.
Munt's arm as if to leave him the freer for his hand-shaking. "Oh!" he said, suddenly recurring to her; "let me introduce you to Mrs. Pasmer, Mr. Mavering," and the latter made a bow that creased his waistcoat at about the height of Mrs. Pasmer's pretty little nose.
Athalie's exuberant hand-clapping and hand-shaking and the cyclonic and wholly Gallic manner in which she deported herself when comparison with the fragments which the baron had still retained proved beyond all question that these were indeed the missing portions of the all-important document; and not until these things were over did he so much as look at Ailsa Lorne again.
After Gladwin's speech presents were exchanged, and the meeting broke up with a general hand-shaking. Before leaving, Pontiac promised that he would return in a few days with his squaws and children that they might shake hands with their English brothers. "Scoundrels!" laughed one officer, when the last Indian had left. "They were afraid to sit down.
Our preparations at our lodgings were soon completed, and the baggage carefully stowed. A party of our acquaintances assembled to witness our departure, and pass through a round of kissing as the yemshick uttered 'gotovey. They did not make an end of hand-shaking until we were wrapped and bundled into the sleigh.
Lottie was not so tractable. "Very well, momma," she said. "But don't expect me to speak to him. I have some little self-respect, if the rest of you haven't. Am I going to shake hands with him! I never took the least notice of him at home, and I'm not going to here." Bittridge decided the question of hand-shaking for her when they met.
The preliminary ceremony occupied about twenty minutes, and the same time was consumed by each couple. There is no divorce in Russia, so that the union was one for life till death. Before the parties left the church they received congratulations. There was much hand-shaking, and among the women there were decorous kisses.
Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses: I have heard your resolves, and augur ill of their effect. You have made it my duty to dissolve you, and you are dissolved accordingly." And that was the end of Jefferson's first term in office the reward for all the hand-shaking, all the caressing, all the treating!
As soon as he saw me he threw down his hammer, and ran toward us. "Well, well, Roger, struck port again, have you? Glad you're back." And he shook my right hand hard. "My friend, Mr. Harrison, from Chicago," said I. "This is my uncle, Captain Enos Moss." They had hardly finished hand-shaking, when Kate and the Widow Canby came out of the house. "Oh, Roger, I'm so glad you're back!" cried Kate.
In a whole division living in a cholera-infected neighborhood there would be only one or two cases, and sometimes none at all. The uncomfortable rumor of it was everywhere, however, and one was not supposed to eat raw fruit or vegetables, and in some places hand-shaking, even in an officers' mess, was prohibited.
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