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Would it be wise now to make my transformation complete, by adding to the apron a velveteen jacket and a sealskin cap? No: my hands were too white, my manners too inveterately gentleman-like, for all artisan disguise. It would be safer to assume a serious character to shave off my whiskers, crop my hair, buy a modest hat and umbrella, and dress entirely in black.
It sometimes happens that a stray wolf will hobnob with the dogs, and litters of half wolf, half dog have been born at the posts. * A large open boat with wooden frame and sealskin covering. The women row the umiaks while the men sit idle. It is beneath the dignity of the latter to handle the oars when women are present to do it.
It was said of her that she once offered to lay an Ulster to a sealskin jacket, but that the young man had coolly said that a sealskin jacket was beyond a joke and had asked her whether she was ready to "put down" her Ulster.
I'm wonderful thankful you gets home safe!" The borrowed garments that Charley had been wearing were now discarded for new, and sealskin boots were now replaced by buckskin moccasins and moleskin leggings. During their absence Mrs. Twig had made for Charley an adikey of white woolen kersey, and another to wear over it of white moleskin cloth, the hood of the latter trimmed with lynx fur.
"Well, if I was a Johnny, and had got the oof, she'd have a brougham and a sealskin to-morrow." "To-night, you mean," and then there were significant squeaks and trills of laughter. They called her back again, and yet again, and she returned with unaffected cheerfulness and a certain look of triumph.
He turned abruptly round and touched the bell. I bethought me of Mrs. Flaxman and looked just in time to see her slipping off an elegant sealskin dolman, while her eyes looked very dewy and tender. "Mr. Winthrop, you are making this Christmas-tide positively regal with your gifts.
'However, as you are a customer and crying 'Five per cent. on the greengrocer's daughter, he hurried away ere Elias had time to dissent from the bargain. Donning his sealskin vest to overawe the Fershts, Sugarman ploughed his way up the dark staircase to their room. His attire was wasted on the family, for Fanny herself opened the door. 'Peace to you, he cried.
She ordered her brougham, saying she was going out on business, and before departing, she took from her dressing-case certain bank-notes and crammed them hastily into her purse a purse which, in all good faith, she handed to her maid to put in her sealskin muff-bag.
Then on reaching the edge of the lake he would draw back his sealskin cloak, unfasten the cord which tied up his long red hair, and soak the latter in the water. He regretted that he had not deserted to the Romans along with the two thousand Gauls of the temple of Eryx. Often the sun would suddenly lose his rays in the middle of the day.
With a searching regard he looked into Skag's face one long moment, then a glow came up in his eyes and he swung about and stretched himself alongside Skag's chair, reached his arms out before him and laid his chin on them, almost touching the man's foot. Skag leaned over and stroked the big head. It felt like sealskin, but it was soft clean grey colour. "Nels has adopted you, Wonder Man!"
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