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Pope, denouncing the vanity of wealth and the crimes committed in the name of taste, visits Lord Timon's villa, and finds plenty of pegs on which to hang criticism ample scope for satire. With depreciating eyes he surveys the house and grounds, their fittings and garniture, almost as though he were going to make a bid for them. 'He that blames would buy, says the proverb.
And he hurried from room to room in undignified haste, like a slave hunting for some lost treasure of his master's, tearing open closets, peeping behind curtains and up chimneys, and snatching the clothes, behind which she might have hidden, from the pegs on which they hung.
In these conflicts you must be quick, sharp as a rifle-crack that hits echo on the breast-bone and makes her cry out. I correct a student in the art of war." Then aloud: "My opera, young man! well, it's my libretto, and you know we writers always say 'my opera' when we have put the pegs for the voice; you are certainly aware that we do. How dare you to make calumnious observations upon my opera?
I promise to engage you on the spot, recommendation or no recommendation." Would he, back down? "Where are the saddles, Madam?" he asked calmly, though his blood moved faster. "On the pegs behind you," becoming interested. "Do you really intend to ride him?" "With your permission." "I warn you that the risk you are running is great."
He ushered them upstairs and opened a door. The mademoiselles might make the toilette there. Another door: they would eat here. The men deposited their caps and sticks and coats on pegs outside, and the girls, who had had to come in uniform also, were ready as soon as they. They went in together. Elsie gave a little whistle of surprise. Peter had certainly done well.
"What a wonderful creature you would be if you were not deformed," he said, glancing with pride at his own strong tail. "I admit that I am handicapped," replied Tarzan. "You others go ahead and leave the pegs in place for me. I am afraid that otherwise it will be slow work as I cannot hold the pegs in my toes as you do."
He was, as I have said, a fine specimen of a young Englishman, though being Irish by descent he would have indignantly denied any such nationality. I saw when he had dismounted that he was tall and straight, though not a very heavily built man. He carried his head high, and looked every inch a soldier as he strode across the grass, carefully avoiding the pegs of the tennis net.
Fletcher thought the comparison rather ludicrous for a man standing on such remarkably short pegs, but he said nothing. "I mean to sell a few shares of stock, and I want you to do the business. I am not to be known in it." Fletcher bowed, and asked what the stocks were. "No matter; any you can sell to advantage. I haven't a share, but I needn't tell you that doesn't make any difference."
And he hurried from room to room in undignified haste, like a slave hunting for some lost treasure of his master's, tearing open closets, peeping behind curtains and up chimneys, and snatching the clothes, behind which she might have hidden, from the pegs on which they hung.
The man went to the sideboard, poured out two pegs and sent the soda-water sizzling into the long glasses. "Here's yours and here's mine," he said; "good luck!" He drank the whisky off, after he had seen the colonel drink his, and wiped his mouth with a gaudy handkerchief. "I'm taking it for granted," said the colonel, "that we've made no mistake and that you were listening at our door.
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