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"She said something to him, did she? perhaps she gave him the fellow flower to this;" and he took out of his coat and twiddled in his thumb and finger a poor little shriveled, crumpled bud that had faded and blackened with the heat and flare of the night.
Churchill's heart thrilled again. This was a greater honor even than he had hoped for; he was to sound the mighty trumpet note of the campaign, but his pride would not let him show the joy that he felt. "In giving these views and I appreciate their great importance shall I quote you and Mr. Crayon?" he asked, easily. Mr. Goodnight mused a few moments, and twiddled his fingers.
Ser Perth looked at Nema, who nodded. "He distinctly said you were to repair the sky. I've got it down in my notes if you want to see them." She extended the woven cords. "Never mind," Ser Perth said. He twiddled with his mustache. "I'll recap a little. Dave Hanson, as you have seen, the sky is falling and must be repaired. You are our best hope.
Even the matter of the narrow-gauge railroad was beyond his grasp. Scattergood reached down mechanically and removed his huge shoes; then, stretching out his fat legs gratefully, he twiddled his toes in the sunlight and gave himself up to practical thought. He controlled the tail of the valley with his dam and boom company; he must control its mouth.
She looked more like a boy than ever when, the meal ended, she sat, rolling cigarettes, her low forehead puckered beneath the dark curls as she twiddled the papers and stuck out her rounded chin when the tobacco stayed in place, or, with a gesture as true as a school-boy's throwing a stone, tossed the finished article across the room to Martyn, who caught it with one hand, and continued his talk with Scott.
Eileen Erroll, standing near on the pitching raft, listened intently, but curiously enough said nothing either in praise or blame. "He is exactly the right age," insisted Gladys as though somebody had said he was not "the age when a man is most interesting." The Minster twins twiddled their legs and looked sentimentally at the ocean.
"Are you going to live on your mother, you hulking rascal?" quoth the incensed captain. "No, sir," said Mr. Wilks. "I've got a little money, sir; enough for my few wants till we sail again." "When I sail again you won't come with me," said the captain, grimly. "I suppose you want an excuse for a soak ashore for six months!" Mr. Wilks twiddled his cap in his hands and smiled weakly.
Him a dozen little drummer-boys followed "the little darlings!" all the ladies cried out in a breath: they were indeed pretty little fellows, and came and stood close under us: the huge drum-major smiled over his little red-capped flock, and for many hours in the most perfect contentment twiddled his moustaches and played with the tassels of his cane.
He did say so in his own mind, but externally he again scratched his head and again twiddled his thumbs. Mrs Proudie was boiling over with wrath. Alas, alas! could she but have kept her temper as her enemy did, she would have conquered as she had ever conquered. But divine anger got the better of her, as it has done of other heroines, and she fell.
They are nothing but tramps; but if you want a fiddle, Bárin, old Dimitri, who is sick in bed with the rheumatism in his legs, he will sell you his for a quarter the price and be thankful. A nice little instrument, fine and well polished, not old and yellow with the back worn!" He twiddled his fingers in contempt. Velasco ran lightly a scale over the strings.
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