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She had sacrificed her jewellery for the cause. She relied on him. The enterprise had become for Archie something almost sacred. He felt dimly like a knight of old hot on the track of the Holy Grail. He twiddled again. The ring and the bracelet had fetched nearly twelve hundred dollars. Up to that figure his hat was in the ring. "Eight hundred I am offered. Eight hundred. Eight-eight-eight-eight "

"In that case, sir, surely the best plan would be to bring about a reconciliation between them." "How? You see. You stand silent and twiddle the fingers. You are stumped." "No, sir. If I twiddled my fingers, it was merely to assist thought." "Then continue twiddling." "It will not be necessary, sir." "You don't mean you've got a bite already?" "Yes, sir." "You astound me, Jeeves. Let's have it."

Pushing back his spectacles into the very roots of his white hair, the professor stared feebly round on the company, and twiddled in his fingers a sheet of thin foreign paper. "Yes, sir?" Mrs. Barbara turned to her master eagerly alert for the news, and Jinty wondered if it were to say the dream-father was coming home at last.

He came, I've already explained, to sell bogus information for good money. And as the boodle ran low, the cloven hoof began to show, and the brute became downright insolent." "As might have been expected," said Saxham, coldly. " Kept his hat on in my wife's room, talked big, and twiddled a signet-ring he wore," went on the Major.

"There'll be a small game at the Fountain Club," he said, with a grin which creased his cheeks until his retreating chin almost disappeared under the thick lower lip. Orchil twiddled his long, crinkly, pointed moustache and glanced interrogatively at Harmon; then he yawned, stretched his arms, and rose, pocketing the check, which Ruthven passed to him, with a careless nod of thanks.

I am this moment obliged to look to the supper; but you will find, no doubt, some other PERSON who will have much pleasure." "Go to , sir!" screamed the General, starting up, and shaking his cane. "Calm yourself, dearest George," said Lady Gorgon, clinging fondly to him. Fitch twiddled his moustaches. Miss Henrietta Gorgon stared with open mouth.

Rice paper and a packet of Egyptian tobacco lay on one of the arms of his couch, but it was only between the games that he occasionally twiddled up a cigarette, so conscientiously did he attend to his duties as umpire. "Vantage out," said Harry, who was serving. Beatrice returned the ball high, and very far back-indeed, and immediately cried "I think it was just in!"

I suppose it's a compliment, but how horrible it sounds! It makes me feel like a skeleton." "I mean to say, you're you're dainty!" "That's much better." "You look as if you weighed about an ounce and a half! You look like a bit of thistledown! You're a little fairy princess, dash it!" "Freddie! This is eloquence!" Jill raised her left hand, and twiddled a ringed finger ostentatiously.

"She can say some poetry," said Miss Zielinski. "And she's read Scott." One and all shook their heads at this, and Mrs. Gurley went on shaking hers and smiling grimly. "Ah! the way gels are brought up nowadays," she said. "There was no such thing in my time. We were made to learn what would be of some use and help to us afterwards." Elderly Miss Chapman twiddled her chain. "I hope I did right Mrs.

"And they know it!" said Commodore Graham with a sigh. Hillyard rose and took his hat. "Well, I am very grateful to you, Mr. Hillyard," said Graham. "I can't say anything more to you now. Things, as you know, are altogether very doubtful. We may slip over into smooth water. On the other hand," and he twiddled his thumbs serenely, "we may be at war in a month.