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They were Deputies from Montecitorio frock-coated and silk-hatted, like politicians all the world over, not a popular throng of a hundred thousand Romans singing and shouting, such as a few days later was to gather in the piazza before the same station to greet the poet, D'Annunzio.
And in the Avenue she had an encounter with Ramage. It was an odd little encounter, that left vague and dubitable impressions in her mind. She was aware of him a silk-hatted, shiny-black figure on the opposite side of the Avenue; and then, abruptly and startlingly, he crossed the road and saluted and spoke to her. "I MUST speak to you," he said. "I can't keep away from you."
I told him you couldn't see him, but he wouldn't take no. Says he was recommended to you by a former client." Following the word, there burst into Average Jones' private sanctum a gross old man, silk-hatted and bediamonded, whose side-whiskers bristled whitely with perturbed self-importance. In his hand was a patchy bundle. "They tried to stop me!" he sputtered. "Me!
But am I, after all, any greater thief than half the silk-hatted crowd who promote rotten companies in the City and persuade the widow to invest her little all in them? No. I live upon the wealthy and live well, too, for the matter of that and no one can ever say that I took a pennyworth from man or woman who could not afford it." I laughed. It always amused me to hear him talk like that.
In the Major's study and den of curios they came suddenly on a third party, silk-hatted and dressed for the street, who was poring over an open book on the smoking-table a book which he dropped rather guiltily, and turned. Cray introduced him civilly enough, as Dr Oman, but he showed such disfavour in his very face that Brown guessed the two men, whether Audrey knew it or not, were rivals.
At the headquarters of the army and in the camps of the troops from his State he was a familiar figure, attended by the several members of his personal staff, showily horsed, faultlessly betailored and bravely silk-hatted. Things of charm they were, rich in suggestions of peaceful lands beyond a sea of strife.
"Ye call me my man, ye little cigarette-suckin' silk-hatted Johnny orderin' private cabins! W'ot ye think this is a floatin' 'otel?" Madden bit his lip to keep from smiling at the odd play of anger and surprise on Smith's long expressive face. "No harm meant, Mr. " began the American soothingly. "Malone Mate Malone!" stormed the angry officer by way of introduction.
To him Louis gave his card with a request that it be handed to Mr. Peebleby, then he seated himself and for an hour witnessed a parade of unsmiling, silk-hatted gentlemen pass in and out of Mr. Peebleby's office. Growing impatient, at length, he inquired of the boy; "Is somebody dead around here or is this where the City Council meets?" "I beg pardon?" The lad was polite in a cool, superior way.
We were on the street and it chanced that a well-fed, silk-hatted dominie, sporting a diamond stud, was dawdling by as the man of Galilee uttered this emphatic protest against gain-grabbing preachers. His face flushed with anger, and turning upon the ill-clad stranger, he said: "Do you mean to insult me, fellow?"
But in vain do they sing to Dale of the joys of silk-hatted and patent-leather-booted vagabondage and deride his habits of industry; Dale turns a deaf ear to them and urges on his strenuous career. Rogers, coming in to clear away the breakfast things, was despatched by my young friend to fetch a portfolio from the hall.
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