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"I took mother's gold dragon stick-pin for my dolly's blanket one day, because I was in a hurry, and lost it of course, and felt so mizzable, as if nothing could ever be nice again. Now take the plate and go and get Nora, dear, and we'll have the best tea party."
Her white-piqué stock was fastened by an exquisite little cameo stick-pin; from under the brim of a black-beaver sailor-hat, set well down on her head, her wistful brown eyes looked up at Don Mike, and caught the quick glance of approval with which he appraised her, before turning to her mother. "The black mare for you, Mrs. Parker," he suggested.
"There’s a bath in here," his friend called after him. "We’re to divide it." "Sure," was the reply. It sounded a trifle thick. "I don’t think that she ought to," said the brother to himself, as he began to draw out his stick-pin before the mirror, "I don’t care if she is my favorite sister—I don’t think that she ought to."
His objective point was that dimly lighted room where the master of the house should be sleeping heavily after whatever solace he had sought to lighten the burden of his loneliness. A "touch" might be made there to the extent of legitimate, fair professional profits loose money, a watch, a jewelled stick-pin nothing exorbitant or beyond reason.
"Why, say, suppose a plug-ugly sasshays up to you on the street to take a crack at your pearl stick-pin, do you reckon he's going to drop you a postal card first? You gotta be ready for him. See what I mean?" "Let us spar," said Bailey austerely. He had begun to despair of ever making Steve show him that deference and respect which he considered due to the son of the house.
She has bought a cottage for her father, who is an ingrain weaver in a carpet factory. She wears a stick-pin recently presented to her by her teamster. "I like him all right," is her notion about it, "but I ought to have took him ten years ago. Now he can't support me." S V . Makes twelve dollars a week as a manicurist. Thinks a man ought to have at least thirty dollars a week before marrying.
Anything over 50 points means you can hear like an owl. In this you go by your best ear. Pindrop-test. Sometimes it is difficult to get a good watch-test. Then the trial may be made with an ordinary, silvered brass stick-pin, 1-1/8 inches long, with small head. Lay the pin on a block of wood that is exactly half an inch thick.
They rewarded me with this ruby ring and that stick-pin." Holmes held up his right hand, on the fourth finger of which glistened a brilliant blood-red stone worth not less than fifteen hundred dollars. I breathed a sigh of relief. "I wondered what you were going to do with the necklace," I said.
"I'm going t' a jewelery shop t' hab my diamonds made inter a stick-pin fo' my red necktie," was the answer. "Oh, you'd better wait until morning," suggested Professor Henderson. They gathered about the table in the cozy dining room of their home, while Washington got a meal ready. Every one was talking about what a wonderful trip they had had.
The father he needed to stick-pin you both so you never want for to fight each other," and Louis laughed low like the purr of water on his paddle-blade. "Faith, lad," cried the priest, who had been unnaturally silent, because, I suppose, he was among aliens to his faith, "faith, lad, 'tis a good heart ye have, if ye'd but cut loose from the binding past.
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