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When they told her sharply that the scissors were very delicate and she was instantly to take them out of her hair, she tugged them out in a silence that was itself impertinent, and pinned up her pigtails with their buttonhook instead.
She had regained her composure and was taking occasional furtive peeps at Mrs. Frank, now seated at the foot of the bed, busy with a buttonhook and the adjustment of a pair of very dainty boots of white kid, whose buttons gleamed like pearls. The mates to them, half a size smaller, peeped from the tray of Nita's new trunk. There came a footstep and a rap at the door.
"See what it is, Nita, there's a love I don't want to hop." It was a card a new arrival at the hotel. "Gentleman said he'd wait in the parlor 'm," said the bellboy, and vanished. Nita glanced at the card and instant trouble stood in her paling face. Silently Mrs. Garrison held out her hand, took the card, and one quick look. The buttonhook dropped from her relaxed fingers. The card read: "Mr.
There was a fascinating hole on top of his head, thus making it possible to secrete things like medicine or food until they were fished out with a buttonhook or darning needle. He was fed on cake now, but was generally given crusts, when there were any, because Beth did not like them. "Why did you ask that question?" asked their mother.
"It's you, my boy," he said suddenly; "you ought to get a divorce." That word, from those of all lips, was almost too much for Soames' composure. His eyes reconcentrated themselves quickly on the buttonhook, and as if in apology James hurried on: "I don't know what's become of her they say she's abroad. Your Uncle Swithin used to admire her he was a funny fellow."
'Well, what do you think they've done? They've asked us to dinner. 'Have they? Fancy! 'Yes, and what I thought was so particularly jolly of him was that it was a verbal invitation. Mitchell said to me, just like this, 'Ottley, old chap, are you doing anything on Sunday evening? Here Archie came to the door and said, 'Mother, can I have your long buttonhook? Edith shook her head and frowned.
'All very jolly musical crambo that sort of thing.... What shall you wear, Edith? 'Mother, do let me have your long buttonhook. I want it. It isn't for my boots. 'Certainly not. What a nuisance you are! 'But, Mother, I've got it.... I can soon mend it, Mother. On Sunday evening Bruce's high spirits seemed to flag; he had one of his sudden reactions. He looked at everything on its dark side.
Julia had Anna with her, a delightful little armful in her tumbled nightwear, and she smiled at the picture of Miss Toland, comfortably enjoying her breakfast in bed. But it was evident that she had not slept: deep shadows lay under her blue eyes, and she was very pale. She put the baby down on the bed with a silver buttonhook and a bracelet, and sat down. "Sleep any?" Miss Toland asked.
He knew that maps and valuable papers were kept there, because the general had once referred to them as being there while at supper. The desk was locked, but this did not disconcert the lad, for he had expected it would be. Drawing a small buttonhook that he always carried from his pocket, he inserted it in the keyhole.
He had come in for a lead-pencil and had bought, in addition, a stamp-box, a buttonhook, and a plated silver photograph frame, not one of which newly acquired treasures he had the slightest use for. They were very neatly tied up, however. He wished Mrs. Jim would stick to her legitimate business which she did uncommonly well. "I think I would sell out my 'H. O. P. if I were you," he said.
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