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Farquhar were not proof against this, and she tried to amuse herself by reconstructing the season out of the specimens of guests who remained, who were for the most part young ladies who had duty written on their faces, and were addicted to spectacles. "It could not have been," she thought, "ultrafashionable or madly gay. I think the good people come here; those who are willing to illuminate."
The throng around immediately heaped upon it dry faggots, the tribunals and benches of the adjoining courts, and whatever else came to hand. Then the musicians and players stripped off the dresses they wore on the present occasion, taken from the wardrobe of his triumph at spectacles, rent them, and threw them into the flames.
He wiped them carefully, put them into their shagreen case, and locked them in his bureau, that is to say, he left off wearing his spectacles. You will observe that there was a wonderful depth of meaning in that critical symptom, whether it be regarded as a sign outward, positive, and explicit, or a sign metaphysical, mystical, and esoteric.
It is known that the inn each afternoon has been crowded with Germans, among them Germans already suspected, I can't say how rightly or how wrongly, of spying, and that these people are so familiar with the Miss von Twinklers as to warrant the belief in a complete secret understanding." For a moment Mr. Twist continued both his silence and his stare. Then he took off his spectacles and wiped them.
"They did not want flowers, perhaps Take my advice of the best I can give Pay your secretary her wages as high ones as she will accept and then treat her as if she were fifty years old and wore glasses!" "She does wear glasses abominable yellow horn rimmed spectacles!" I announced excitedly. "Have you never seen them?" The Duchesse's eyes flashed .
She wept and prayed, lied still more, pretended illness, and had fits of hysteria. They put her in the old condemned hold with a constant guard over her, for fear that she would attempt suicide The idlers of the town crowded to the prison to see her, for in the time of his Blessed Majesty King George II Newgate, with the condemned hold and its content, composed one of the fashionable spectacles.
In all fiction there is no grander description than that of one of the sublimest spectacles in nature. The merest fragments of it conjured up the entire scene aided as those fragments were by the look, the tones, the whole manner of the Reader. The listener was there with him in imagination upon the beach, beside David.
"No, thank you," said he, and strode off again to find the old verger, who was sitting in his little den, as of old, puzzling over hieroglyphics. He looked up through his spectacles as Tom seized his hand and wrung it. "Ah! you've heard all about it, sir, I see," said he.
For an instant she dreamily scanned the fire, seeing in its glowing embers the brown wrinkled negro face with its honest eyes, peering at her over his spectacles in troubled apprehension; then she sprang to her feet. "Uncle Edward," she cried, "did you tell Uncle Neb to wait with the sleight? Those sleigh-bells are beginning to sound hysterical."
"What is the matter, Koosje?" he asked, regarding her gravely over his spectacles. "There's a woman outside dying," she panted, "I fell over her." "You had better try to get her in then," the old gentleman said, in quite a relieved tone. "You and Dortje must bring her in. Dear, dear, poor soul! but it is a dreadful night."
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