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"You have Mrs. Hammond's car below?" he said to the waiting footman. "Yes, sir. I was to get an answer or take you up, if you could go." "I'll go. I'll be down in a moment." The man retired, and Markham, somewhat mystified, reread Mrs. Hammond's note and got into this hat and overcoat. A matter of importance! Another commission, perhaps she had already got him two.
The hair and beard turned snowy white; the former rose in a fierce sort of Oberland, the latter was kept square and full, crossing underneath the truculent chin that escaped from it. As Ibsen walked to a banquet in Christiania, he looked quite small under the blaze of crosses, stars and belts which he displayed when he unbuttoned the long black overcoat which enclosed him tightly.
It was the figure of a boy upon which the twinkling lamp-eyes flickered a boy who had as yet scarce passed the barrier of manhood, for the skin of the face was clean and smooth, and the limbs, seen vaguely under a rough overcoat, had the freedom and supple grace that belongs to early youth.
She turned a leaf, and read a page of extracts from Donald Grant Mitchell; but she had not understood one word, so she began again and read slowly, trying to understand; then she found her ticket in her glove, and examined it with profound interest, the color burning in her cheeks; then she gazed long out of the window at the snow and the bare trees and the scattered farmhouses; then she turned to study the lady's bonnet in front of her, and to pity the mother with the child in front of her; she looked before and behind and out the windows; she looked everywhere but at the face beside her; she saw his overcoat, his black travelling bag, and wondered what he had brought his mother; she looked at his brown kid gloves, at his black rubber watch chain, from which a gold anchor was dangling; but it was dangerous to raise her eyes higher, so they sought his boots and the newspaper on his knee.
After taking off his overcoat in the first narrow room, he found out from the attendant that the Senators had all arrived, and that the last had just come in. Fanarin, in his swallow-tail coat, a white tie above the white shirt-front, and a self-confident smile on his lips, passed into the next room.
A similar volume had been stuffed into each of Gerald's overcoat pockets. Gerald, as has been said, remembered At Homes of Antonia's, and had in mind an image of what he might expect to see. He perceived at once that to-day all was different. This was immensely choice, the most so afforded by Florence.
From The Gaffs to Westmoreland, the home of Alice Westmore, was barely two miles up the level white pike. Jim sat in the buggy at The Gaffs holding the horses while Richard Travis, having eaten his supper, was lighting a cigar and drawing on his overcoat, preparatory to riding over to Westmoreland. The trotters stood at the door tossing their heads and eager to be off.
Abominable depredations HAD been committed, doubtless, by the people to whom I have alluded and, unless I was grossly mistaken, herein lay the clue to the hauntings. "The air being icy, I had to wrap both my rug and my overcoat tightly round me to prevent myself from freezing, and every now and then I got up and stamped my feet violently on the hard ground to restore the circulation.
Peter, taking down his old overcoat from its hook, turned and caught the boy's eye. It was a swift exchange of glances, but illuminating Peter's whimsical, but with a sort of grim determination; McLean's sheepish, but equally determined. "Rotten afternoon," said McLean as they started for the stairs. "Half rain, half snow. Streets are ankle-deep."
I can never forget the seance I had with mother the day I handed over father's best, go-to-meeting overcoat to a dirty, evil-looking tramp, and gave away Victor's velocipede to the ash-man's little boy. I came to the conclusion that the whole world was just a sham and all men yes, and women were liars. Mrs.
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