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As the crowd opened, Uncle Billy appeared, pale, hysterical, breathless, and staggering a little under the back-slapping and hand-shaking of the whole camp. For Uncle Billy had "struck it rich" had just discovered a "pocket," roughly estimated to be worth fifteen thousand dollars!
"What an admirable thing is common-sense! Does Sir Victor know about the hand-shaking and the cousinly agreement?" "Don't be sarcastic, Beatrix; it isn't your forte! Be very sure of that." "Ah! such as it is," puts in Trix cynically; "and when, is it to be, Dithy the wedding?" "My dear Trix, I only said yes this morning. Gentlemen don't propose and fix the wedding-day all in a breath.
From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the sleeve of the brakeman who helped her down before she had the courage to dive into the cataract of hand-shaking people, people whom she could not tell apart. She had the impression that all the men had coarse voices, large damp hands, tooth-brush mustaches, bald spots, and Masonic watch-charms.
At the end of that time, with a dozen invitations, a dozen appointments, a dozen vows of eternal friendship, much hand-shaking, and accompanied by a number of the officers to their boat, Maggie and Jim departed. They talked but little on their way home; by some tacit understanding they did not discuss those projects, only recalling certain scenes and incidents of their visit.
"Happy to meet you, professor," said that individual, grasping Von Barwig's hand and shaking it effusively. This hand-shaking process seemed a part of the theatrical trade. "Say, George, take him inside and introduce him to the curios and just tell 'em from me that if they don't treat him better than they did the other night professor, by the eternal jumpin' Jerusalem, I'll fire the whole bunch!"
She reached her hand to me, and when I would have saluted it like any dutiful subject, she took my hand in hers and placed Hortense's hand in mine. Then there was a great laughing and hand-shaking and protesting, with the courtiers thronging round. "Ha, Radisson," Barillon was saying, "you not only steal our forts you must rifle the court and run off with the queen's maid!"
Back from the war-path, day after day, came dozens of grinning, hand-shaking warriors lately in rebellion, and to them, their squaws and children, with lavish hand the agency dealt out blankets and calicoes, bacon and beef, coffee, flour, and sugar.
The quickness with which a woman can pull herself together under such circumstances is testimony to her superior fibre. "I've been looking across here ever since morning," he said, as soon as the hand-shaking and introduction were over, "and I've only this minute been released." There was no air of apology in this, but a delicate intimation of impatience at the delay.
But now, after this final excursion, I should have to start, to return to France and to Paris, that city of useless chatter, of commonplace cares, and of continual hand-shaking, and I should bid adieu to all that I had got to like so much, which was so new to me, which I had scarcely had time to see thoroughly, and which I so much regretted to leave.
There was a hurried hand-shaking, and several warm kisses. "Good-by, Richard," said Mrs. Dare. "God be with you!" And then she added in a whisper: "Don't be afraid to come home as soon as you don't like it any more." "I'll remember, mother," he replied. "Don't worry about me. It's all right. Good-by, each and everybody!" Valise in hand, he climbed up the steps and entered one of the cars.
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