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"What alarmed Miss Frettlby?" asked Brian, in a low voice, covering his face with his hand. "The sight of her father walking in his sleep, I suppose," said Chinston, buttoning his glove; "and the shock of his death which took place indirectly through her, accounts for the brain fever."
The Major, who was always the surgeon on great occasions, began to strip the unfortunate that he might dress his wounds; but he had scarcely put his hands on the dying man when he started up as if touched by an electrical machine. "Never! never!" he exclaimed, and pulling his ragged coat tightly round him, he began buttoning it up in a strangely excited manner. "But, Paganel," began the Major.
'I won't do it again, and I'm very sorry, pleaded Tommy; but the clown wouldn't be friends with him for ever so long, and was only appeased at last by being allowed to put Tommy upside down in a tall wicker basket which stood in a corner. Then he helped Tommy to dress by buttoning all his clothes the wrong way, and hiding his stockings and necktie.
Reeling, he groped for his coats and got them on, buttoning his overcoat up to his ears. It was some time before he found his cap. He did not know whether his face was still bleeding. Walking blindly, every step making him sick with pain, he went back to the pond and washed his face and hands. The icy water hurt, but helped to bring him back to himself. He crawled back up the hill to the tram.
As Mart watched the process of buttoning them, and remarked complacently that she shouldn't wonder if Dirk would buy her a pair some day, when he earned money enough, she kept her lip from curling with an incredulous sneer. You will remember that she had not the slightest faith in Dirk.
'E'll 'ave pneumonia ... I'll just jump into me clothes and " He slipped into the back room, to reappear with surprisingly little delay, fully dressed and buttoning a long ulster round his throat. "You didn't 'appen to notice which w'y 'e went, sir?" "As well as I could judge, to the east." Doggott took down a second ulster and a cap from pegs in the wall.
She was clad for the street and was at that moment in the act of buttoning a long white glove. As she recognized the visitor, a deep flush mounted quickly on the patrician face of the older woman and, for an instant, her teeth caught her lower lip. Smiles' face was very pale, so pale that her large eyes by contrast appeared almost startling in their depth and color.
He almost snatched it from her, and stood up the better to examine it under the gas-light. "Where is Montague Street?" he asked, with rough directness. "In Bloomsbury alongside the Museum. That's one Montague Street I don't know how many others there may be." Thorpe had already taken up his umbrella and was buttoning his coat. "Yes Bloomsbury," he said hurriedly. "That would be his form.
The coat reached half way to the knees. It had a rippling skirt with a row of brown embroidery around it, a deep belt with double buttoning at the waistline, and collar and sleeves in a more elaborate pattern of the same embroidery as the skirt. Linda perched the hat on her head, pulled it down securely, and faced Katy. "Now then!" she challenged.
Taking his hat and buttoning his coat for though the June evening was fine the easterly breeze was eager he walked towards the village. Like an emblem of that path to God of which he spoke on Sundays, the grey road between trim hedges threaded the shadow of the elm-trees where the rooks had long since gone to bed.
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