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He yawned, "Gimme your coat and rubbers," and while she stripped them off he twiddled his watch-chain, felt the radiator, peered at the thermometer. He shook out her wraps in the hall, hung them up with exactly his usual care. He pushed a chair near to her and sat bolt up. He looked like a physician about to give sound and undesired advice.
I myself have heard her at New York, Leipsic, London, Berlin, and even Chicago." The little girl stirred uneasily in her chair. "I don't think Miss Flowerdew has ever been to Chicago," she said. There was a dead silence. The admirer of Miss Thyra Flowerdew looked much annoyed, and twiddled his watch-chain. He had meant to say "Philadelphia," but he did not think it necessary to own to his mistake.
He put his fat hands together over his waistcoat and twiddled his thumbs. "'Well,; he said, 'what's in your mind about it? "We were now up to the trade and I stated the terms. "'It's like this, I said, 'Tavor's down and out. He's got only six months to live. Fifth Avenue piled full of gold won't do him any good if he's got to wait for it. What he wants is a little money quick!
He put down the pen, which he had been holding in his hand by way of symbol that, amiable as he was, his attention to his woman-kind was an encroachment upon time which might be more usefully employed. But this was a serious question; he had no suggestion to offer, but he sat and twiddled his thumbs, and looked at his wife with interest suddenly aroused.
Seeing that Jonathan smirked and twiddled his napkin, the old gentleman added, 'Thursday!
Brooks, a short, heavy-set, neatly dressed gentleman, whose rather weak blue eyes loomed preternaturally large and protuberant behind pince-nez that straddled an insignificant snub nose, took off his glasses and twiddled them in his white, well-kept fingers. "Ah, too bad!" he murmured. "Thought I'd catch him.
Keep the pound; but tell me that you won't mention my having asked you to carry a letter to Elverston to anyone. For the first time Tom looked perfectly serious. He twiddled the corner of my letter between his finger and thumb, and wore very much the countenance of a poacher about to be committed. 'I don't want to chouce ye, Miss; but I must take care o' myself, ye see.
"You wouldn't drown yourself to-night for an ould rusty nail, eh, Capt'n?" cried somebody with a laugh. "You go bail," said Pete, and he leapt up to Kate's side, twiddled the reins, cracked the whip, and they drove away. Philip had stood at the door of the porch, struggling to command his soul, and employing all his powers to look cheerful and even gay.
Seeing that Jonathan smirked and twiddled his napkin, the old gentleman added, 'Thursday!
On possessing himself of her arm he had made her turn, so that they faced afresh to Saint Mark's, over the great presence of which his eyes moved while she twiddled her parasol. She now, however, made a motion that confronted them finally with the opposite end. Then only she spoke "Please take your hand out of my arm."
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