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Miss Pett drummed her black-gloved fingers on the edge of the witness-box and shook her head. "I don't know," she answered. "I never have known. "But you must have some idea, some notion after ten years' acquaintanceship! Come now. What did he do with himself in London? Had he no business?" "He had business," said Miss Pett. "He was out most of the day at it. I don't know what it was."
"It's charming, isn't it!" she said, moving her black-gloved hand to indicate the summery dressed crowd strolling about them, or clustering in groups, each with its own hero. "They seem so eager and so confident, all these boys it's touching. But of course youth doesn't know it's touching." Amberson coughed. "No, it doesn't seem to take itself as pathetic, precisely!
He shook the black-gloved hand of the fashionable minister heartily; then his face grew rueful with a sudden recollection. "I suppose you have come to scold me for not answering the invitation to speak at the distribution of prizes to your religion class?" he said; "but I have been so busy. My conscience has kept up a dull pricking on the subject, though, for ever so many weeks.
Near a cross-bearer, whose short surplice permitted the bottom of his trousers to be seen, the priest waited with a finger in his book; and, having grasped the rim of his hat under his left arm, the orator of the Society of Men of Letters already held in his black-gloved hand the funeral oration, hastily patched up by the aid of a comrade over a couple of glasses at the corner of a café table.
And inasmuch as none of us may escape pain, I should teach her that Christian wisdom which elevates us above all suffering, and gives a beauty even to grief itself. That is my idea of the right way to educate a young girl." "I yield, Monsieur," replied Maitre Mouche, joining his black-gloved hands together. And he rose.
"Is it something that you would better talk to Mrs. Tellingham about? I will introduce you to her " "No, no!" said Mr. Farrington, waving a black-gloved hand with the gesture Hamlet might have used in waving to his father's ghost. "The lady preceptress of your school has naught to do with this matter. It is personal with you." "But what is it?" queried Ruth, rather exasperated now.
There came upon the book while Rosalie pondered it the long, black-gloved forefinger of Hilda. It turned back the thin leaves to the burial service and then pushed over one or two of the thin leaves and indicated certain places.
He was sincere with a sincerity, to speak arithmetically, of the tenth power beyond that of his exemplary churchwarden Johnson, whose religion would have restrained him from anything warmer than the extension of a Sunday black-gloved finger-tip to any woman save "Mrs. J." Here he was by the riverside with her; he was close to her; nobody was present, but he could not stir nor speak!
The black-gloved hand of the wizened, bristly-haired old man was the hand that controlled a great organization spread all over Europe an organization which only knew Il Passero by repute, but had never seen him in the flesh. Yet there he was, a discreet, rather petulant old gentleman, who lived at ease in an exclusive West End street, and was entirely unsuspected! When "Mr.
Maldon was already recovering her reputation as a woman whose death was an irreparable loss to the town. As Rachel passed the negligible second-hand bookstall again, it was made visible to her by the fact that Councillor Thomas Batchgrew was just emerging from the shop behind it, with a large volume in his black-gloved hands.
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