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For he was long, stooping, gaunt and spindle-shanked, his hands big and crippled with gout: his cheeks were red after an old man's fashion, covered with a crimson network like a pippin; his lips thin and not well hiding his few teeth; his nose long like a snipe's neb. In short, a shame and a laughing-stock to the Folk, and a man whom the kindreds had in small esteem, and that for good reasons.
Fooled, duped, and laughed at after twenty years of hard service! It was too bitter. "Not Joseph Wilmot!" muttered Mr. Carter; "not Joseph Wilmot!" "No more than you are, my pippin," answered the traveller, insolently. The two men were still standing face to face. Something in that insolent tone, something that brought back the memory of half-forgotten times, startled the detective.
The history of the need-fire can be traced back to early Middle Ages; for in the reign of Pippin, King of Franks, the practice of kindling need-fires was denounced as a heathen superstition by a synod of prelates and nobles held under the presidency of Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz. In Germany the need-fires would seem to have been popular down to the second half of the nineteenth century.
His diplomatic eyes flattered Scorrier, who passed a hand over his brow and said: "Of course." "Pippin doesn't hit it off with them. Between ourselves, he's a leetle too big for his boots. You know what it is when a man in his position gets a sudden rise!" Scorrier caught himself searching on the floor for a sight of Hemmings' boots; he raised his eyes guiltily.
He hurried back from a dusky corner of the room, bearing aloft something in his hand. It was an apple a large, red-mottled, firm pippin, pleasing to behold. In a paper bag on a high shelf in that corner he had found it. It could have been no relic of the lovewrecked Redruth, for its glorious soundness repudiated the theory that it had lain on that musty shelf since August.
The sharp lines at the corners of Jimmie Dale's mouth grew a little more pronounced. Nor should the Pippin be long in returning! A man could not very well lose a cuff link and be unaware of that fact for any extended length of time. And that cuff link was damning, irrefutable, incontrovertible evidence, exactly the evidence the police required to convict the guilty man!
The caption says of Vida Sommers: "Her Love Has Turned to Hate." It may be good acting, but it would never get her chosen by the male of her species the adventuress being what is known in some circles as a pippin. I studied still another of these documents "Hearts Asunder."
The late superintendent, a cowed man, regaled them at lunch with his forebodings; his attitude toward the situation was like the food, which was greasy and uninspiring. Alone together once more, the two newcomers eyed each other sadly. "Oh dear!" sighed Pippin. "We must change all this, Scorrier; it will never do to go back beaten.
He certainly hoped at this time to succeed to the throne of France, either by deposing the corrupt and feeble Henri III., "as Pippin dealt with Hilderik," or by seizing the throne, when the King's debaucheries should have brought him to the grave. The Catholics of the more advanced type, and specially the Jesuits, now in the first flush of credit and success, supported him warmly.
You don't deserve to have me admit it, but Lennox' account of it is that before going on to the opera, he stopped to write a letter to Miss er Hum! Ha!" "Miss Austen?" "And when he got through it was midnight." "I'll lay a pippin he didn't send it." "What, sir?" "Lennox had a lot to say. It was gagging him. He would have suffocated if he had kept it in.
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