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I dropped in at Wedderburn to-day to see if I could be of any help, and the poor man was buttonholed by two reporters who had come all the way from New York to see him. I hope he won't overdo it." It was true. Mr. Crewe was to appear in the Sunday supplements. "Are our Millionaires entering Politics?" Mr.
Is he at Zenda?" The chancellor was becoming very embarrassed; Anton had disappeared into the house; Rischenheim buttonholed him resolutely. "At Zenda? Well, now, I don't Excuse me, but what's your business?" "Excuse me, my dear chancellor; it's a secret." "I have the king's confidence." "Then you'll be indifferent to not enjoying mine," smiled Rischenheim.
At the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning, and he buttonholed me and recommenced: "Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yaller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only just a short stump like a bannanner, and " However, lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the afflicted cow, but took my leave.
At the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning, and he buttonholed me and recommenced: "Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yaller, one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only jest a short stump like a bannanner, and " However, lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the afflicted cow, but took my leave.
Whenever he travelled, he carried a pair of the magical instruments in his valise, and gave demonstrations on trains and in hotels. He buttonholed every influential man who crossed his path. He was a veritable "Ancient Mariner" of the telephone. No possible listener was allowed to escape.
On the way, however, he was buttonholed by an acquaintance, and the master of the hounds had something to say to him afterwards about one of his covers. When he was free, Miss Fielding had disappeared. He made his way into the winter garden, only to find her sitting in a secluded corner with the Baron. She looked up at his entrance, but made no sign.
He passed on, buttonholed by every one, himself buttonholing his acquaintances, beginning over and over again his tale and his protestations, showing his pockets turned inside out to prove that he had nothing in them. They said to him: "You old rogue!" He grew more and more angry, feverish, in despair at not being believed, and kept on telling his story. The night came. It was time to go home.
"My doctor forbids me to touch wine," said Winter mournfully. "But these bucolic breeders of browns and bays employ wiser medicos, I'll go bail. Landlord, a quart of the best, and six out, as they say in London." Six glasses were duly filled with champagne. When it was consumed, Hart buttonholed Peters. "A word with you, scribe," he said. "Good-day, gentlemen. I leave you to your nags. Treat Mr.
The second picot is made in much the same way; instead, however, of putting the needle as the diagram shows, bring the thread up through the centre of the loop, then round under the pin from left to right, and it will be in position to make three buttonhole stitches along the loop, which completes the second example. The upper bar on fig. 78 shows a buttonholed picot.
But as the evening advanced his seat remained empty even while the curtain was up, and she was glad when, between the fourth and fifth acts, her husband at last appeared. On his way to her Mahony ran into his brother-in-law, and John buttonholed him to discuss with him the prospects of the morrow.
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