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It was a long, narrow blackboard, on which the alphabet had once been painted white, though the letters were now so faded that the Dame could no longer distinguish them, even in spectacles. The scrape came about thus.
"By the way," said John Turner, after they had shaken hands, "You never told me what sort of a man this young fellow is this Loo Barebone?" "The dearest fellow in the world," answered Marvin, with eyes aglow behind his spectacles. "To me he has been as a son an elder brother, as it were, to little Sep. I was already an elderly man, you know, when Sep was born. Too old, perhaps. Who knows?
Pardiggle, suspecting her to be a type of the former class, and were glad when she called one day with her five young sons. She was a formidable style of lady with spectacles, a prominent nose, and a loud voice, who had the effect of wanting a great deal of room. And she really did, for she knocked down little chairs with her skirts that were quite a great way off.
"Do you remember when the ice broke on the big ditch and I had you in my arms, so, lifting you over?" "Was I heavy?" she asked, irrelevantly, and we both laughed. Father's reading-lamp shone upon the open Bible when I returned. He wiped his spectacles and looked up with a patiently questioning "Well, my boy?" Mother laid her hand upon mine.
I reached home at two in the morning with a pair of "Oxford spectacles" which confined me to the house for a week.
You knew you'd have to when you came to work at the Emporium. Stick to your contract, boy." "Then why don't you stick to yours?" demanded the youth, boldly. "Eh! Eh! What do you mean by that?" cried Mr. Dwight, glaring at Hiram through his spectacles. "I mean that when I came to work for you seven months ago, you promised that, if I suited after six months, you would raise my wages.
I told Colvin this morning that I thought I ought to draw a salary of about four thousand a year, besides our living expenses, and though he looked at me pretty sharp over his spectacles he said nothing. Arthur is worth half a million, if he is worth a cent.
Miss Blake sat man-fashion on the middle of her spine, her legs crossed, a magazine in her hands, and on her blunt nose a pair of large, black-rimmed spectacles. Her feet and hands and her cropped head, though big for a woman's, looked absurdly small in comparison to the breadth of her hips and shoulders. She was reading the "Popular Science Monthly."
Atterson had fumbled for her spectacles and now put them on to survey the boy's earnest face. "Do you mean to say you can run a farm, Hi Strong?" she asked. "I do," and he smiled confidently at her. "And make it pay?" "Perhaps not much profit the first season; but if the farm is fertile, and the marketing conditions are right, I know I can make it pay us both in two years."
She became timorous or frivolous, without dignity or public esteem; her happiness was in extravagant attire, in elaborate hair-dressings, in rings and bracelets, in a retinue of servants, in gilded apartments, in luxurious couches, in voluptuous dances, in exciting banquets, in demoralizing spectacles, in frivolous gossip, in inglorious idleness.
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