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Say, interests of that sort don't matter a thing for me. Thought of them won't put an ounce more into the work I'll do to help my mother. But she counts, and what you said about her is all you need say. The other talk is just talk." "Is it?" The man had risen from his chair. Jessie surveyed him with cool measuring eyes. His podgy figure was almost ludicrous in her eyes.
He did not take kindly to what he termed "those skittish sparrow-tailed affairs". Frock-coats suited him, but I am not partial to them on every one. They look well enough on a podgy, fat, or broad man, but on a skinny one they hang with such a forlorn, dying-duck expression, that they invariably make me laugh.
Her head appeared again behind the swathe of gauze. "There's plenty of room, George." George Pendyce walked quickly forward, and disappeared beside her. There was a crunch of wheels; the brougham rolled away. The Hon. Geoffrey Winlow raised his face again. "Who was that, Benson?" The coachman leaned over confidentially, holding his podgy white-gloved hand outspread on a level with the Hon.
"The Captain is perhaps the nicerer-looking gentleman, and he ain't so podgy like; but what's good looks if a gentleman hasn't got nothing? I can't abide anything that's poor; neither can't Missus." From which it was evident that Jeannette gave Miss Vavasor no credit in having Mr Cheesacre in her train.
Hardly had the laughter prompted by his own words died on Driscoll's lips, when to my astonishment the man of whom we spoke sauntered into the room. He was looking at peace with all the world, and as nearly handsome as it was possible for him to look, the contrast between him and the podgy, elderly gentleman by whom he was accompanied being much to his advantage.
"Merci!" and then she stretched herself, kicked up her little feet, in their short-vamped, podgy little shoes, with four-inch heels, and lit a cigarette. "Life is hard, Mon ami" she told me "And now that the English are here, it is difficult to keep from falling in love."
"Where are you going?" was the querulous demand. "Home at present. To Rennes in the morning." "Wait, boy, wait!" The squat little man rolled forward, affectionate concern on his great ugly face, and he set one of his podgy hands on his godson's shoulder. "Now listen to me, Andre," he reasoned. "This is sheer knight-errantry moonshine, lunacy. You'll come to no good by it if you persist.
"Very good, sir," answered the old chief as he lifted his podgy legs over the coaming of the hatchway, prior to burying himself in the cimmerian darkness of the opening, wherein Mr Fosset and his men had already vanished. "I'll make things all snug below, sir, and bank the fires as soon as you give the signal." With that, he, too, was lost to sight.
The first service I did him was to tell him that they were beautiful, and to make him give up padding them. "What do you want with fat, podgy, prize-fighter legs!" I expostulated. I brought help, too, in pictorial matters. Henry Irving had had little training in such matters; I had had a great deal. Judgment about colours, clothes, and lighting must be trained. I had learned from Mr.
A close-shaved, well-dressed, middle-aged man, with a copy of The Sportsman in his podgy hand, who has descended from the motor-bus, starts stamping his feet. "I was knocked down by a taxi last year," he says fiercely. "But nobody took no notice of that! Are they going to stop here all the blank morning for a blank tyke?"
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