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He heard Conniston singing to the obligato of the running water, and, with eyes half closed, leaned back and watched his smoke swirl ceilingward. Presently the bath-room door opened again, and he saw Conniston, his trousers in his hand, standing in the doorway, grinning as though at some rare laughter-provoking thought. "Well, old man," Hapgood smiled back at him, "whence the mirth?"
Morfit has retired to her apartments with one of her usual headaches, so that I have been alone these two hours. You visit Stornoway somewhat late, Mr. Orts," Anastasia Allonby added, without any particular concealment of the fact that she considered his doing so a nuisance. He jerked his thumb ceilingward. "The cloth is at any rascal's beck and call.
Sweat stood out upon the forehead of the heavy-paunched proprietor as with a flabby-faced grin he set out the bottle. But the Texan caught the snake-like flash of the eyes with which the man signalled to the croupier across the room. Gun in hand, he whirled: "No, you don't, Toney!" An ugly blue-black automatic dropped to the floor and the croupier's hands flew ceilingward.
It was rather incongruous to see nothing but rows and rows of army cots, and the white-robed nurses flitting about in rooms that were manifestly intended for luxurious divans and the evening dress of fashion. Lying in those cots, one had but to gaze ceilingward, and forget that one was in a hospital.
I've noticed that them guys who retire with a barrel of money usually dies at the end of the first year, of a kind of a lingerin' homesickness. You c'n see their pictures in th' papers, with a pathetic story of how they was just beginnin' t' enjoy life when along comes the grim reaper an' claims 'em." Blackie slid down in his chair and blew a column of smoke ceilingward.
It was beyond Johnnie's strength to watch what was happening. He threw up an arm to shut out the sight of Big Tom, and faced the other way. "Oh, don't!" he moaned weakly. "Oh, don't! Don't!" A strange, unpleasant odor was filling the room. He guessed that was the hat. Smoke came wafting his way next a whole cloud of it and drifted ceilingward. "Oh, Cis! Cis!" he moaned again.
She added in a low voice: "I want to do what will please you, Louis." "I don't know whether it's the best thing to do, but you may have to." He laid his cigarette in a saucer, watched the smoke curling ceilingward, and said as though to himself: "I should like to be certain that you can support yourself within a reasonable time from now say a year. That is all, Dolly."
"Is this the little brother that sang the offertory?" "Yes; that's him Bud." "Bud, will you sing it again for me, now?" "Sure thing!" said the atom of a boy, promptly mounting a soap box. He threw back a mop of thick black hair, rolled his eyes ceilingward, and let his sweet, clear voice have full sway. "Oh, Bud, you darling!
Vanity is a great stimulus to action, and the inspiring note of my life was forgotten as I contemplated David Malcolm in his sanctum, at a table littered with pages, every one of which would stab some devil of corruption or brighten some lonely hour, pausing at his labor to blow spires of smoke ceilingward while he gave kindly advice to the man who sat before him, respectfully erect on his chair, regarding him through drooping glasses.
At the same instant Martin sprang for him, clutching him by the throat with one hand in such fashion that Mr. Ends' snow-white beard, still maintaining its immaculate trimness, pointed ceilingward at an angle of forty-five degrees. To the horror of Mr. White and Mr. Ford, they saw their business manager shaken like an Astrakhan rug. "Dig up, you venerable discourager of rising young talent!"
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