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Horace Pendyce. Slowly they came out one by one into the loom of the carriages, and stood with their eyes fixed carefully before them, as though afraid they might recognise each other. A tall man in a fur coat, whose tall wife carried a small bag of silver and shagreen, spoke to the coachman: "How are you, Benson? Mr. George says Captain Pendyce told him he wouldn't be down till the 9.30.
Gordon Hamilton Scott had certainly brought home a bundle of shagreen spectacle cases in the guise of a widow with an exceedingly doubtful jointure; doubtful indeed at first, but very soon found to admit of no doubt whatever. He was the one who, with true Scotch enterprise, was prosecuting his fortunes at the Bendigo diggings, while his wife consoled herself at home with her title.
As I live, he here mentioned dear gr-nny's MAIDEN name. Her maiden name was . Her honored married name was . "She married your great-gr-ndf-th-r the year Poseidon won the Newmarket Plate," Mr. Pinto dryly remarked. Merciful powers! I remember, over the old shagreen knife and spoon case on the sideboard in my gr-nny's parlor, a print by Stubbs of that very horse.
It is a little box-wood Triton, carved with charming liveliness and truth; I have often compared it to a figure in Raphael's "Triumph of Galatea." It came to me in an ancient shagreen case, how old it is I do not know, but it must have been made since Sir Walter Raleigh's time. If you are curious, you shall see it any day.
He had taken a shagreen ink-bottle and a cordwain pocket-book from his pocket; he had extracted from his pocket-book a parchment folded four times, old, stained, and yellow; he had opened the sheet, taken a pen out of his ink-case, placed the pocket-book flat on his knee, and the parchment on the pocket-book; and by the rays of the lantern, which was lighting the cook, he set to writing on the back of the parchment.
Nichols sprang from his seat in a panic and drew his knife with frantic haste. He continued, glaring at me from the wall, the knife in his hand: "Don't you dream of tricks. I've cut more throats than you've kissed gals in your little life." Salazar himself drew an immense pointed knife with a shagreen hilt. He kissed it rapturously.
There are a few maple-wood handles of the eighteenth century, and others of stag's horn and of shagreen. The knife box with its divisions, referred to elsewhere, is exemplified in many remarkably fine cases to be seen in our museums and in isolated specimens in private collections.
"Now, sir," said the constable to the bearded man, after he had made a note of my story. "What is it they 'ad of you, sir?" "A shagreen leather pocket-book," said the man. "There it is." "This one?" said the constable. "Yes." "Oh," said the constable, opening the clasps, so that he could examine the writing on the leaves. "What's inside?" "A lot of figures," said the man. "Sums.
As I live, he here mentioned dear gr-nny's MAIDEN name. Her maiden name was . Her honored married name was . "She married your great gr-ndf-th-r the year Poseidon won the Newmarket Plate," Mr. Pinto dryly remarked. Merciful powers! I remember, over the old shagreen knife and spoon case on the sideboard in my gr-nny's parlor, a print by Stubbs of that very horse.
She left him, only to return in a few minutes' time with a dark shagreen case in her hands. The earl paced about the room for a minute or two. "I take these," he said at last, "in bitter unwillingness, because I can't help taking them, my dear. I had best get the business over, Ella. I will go up to town this afternoon."
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