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Daker, who followed him with the deep eyes as he returned to my side with his open cigar-case, to offer me a cheroot. "Do you know anything of Amiens?" he said. "Is it a large place busy, thriving?" I gave him my impression a ten-year old one. "Not a place a man could lose himself in, evidently," he joked; "and they've been mowed down rather smartly by the cholera since you were there."
You see, I'm not a psychologist, and therefore can't use the big, foggy terms of man's conceit to explain what he never can explain, himself, and Life. The captain tossed his cheroot overboard, and was silent for a space. "The psychologists forget Æsop's frog story," he said at last. "Little swollen Egos, again." Then his voice flowed on, slowly, in the dark. It didn't sound, only seemed to come.
The General lit a cheroot, and sat in a deck chair; but the younger man fidgeted and was obviously ill at ease. 'There is one thing on my mind, General Boswell, he said at last, 'and I should like to get it over. I had two or three months at Scutari and I was nursed by an angel all the while. 'Don't go on, my lad, said the General, reaching a hand towards him.
Tom rose and flung away the stub of his third cheroot. "Then you'll let me place your third of the new stock in trust for her and her children?" he said. "That will be best, on all accounts. By the way, where shall I find Miss Ardea?" "She's about the place, somewhahs," was the reply; and Tom passed on to the electric-lighted lobby to send his card in search of her. Chance saved him the trouble.
Seated there in that Limehouse attic, a smoky lamp burning on the table between them, and one gripping the stump of a cheroot between his teeth, while the other chewed steadily, they presented a combination which none but a fool would have lightly challenged. "Sin Sin Wa is cunning," said Seton suddenly. "He is a very clever man.
The Colonel was smoking a cheroot as he walked; and the gigantic Smith, the cock of the school, who happened to be looking majestically out of the window, was pleased to say that he thought Newcome's governor was a fine manly-looking fellow. "Tell me about your uncles, Clive," said the Colonel, as they walked on arm in arm. "What about them, sir?" asks the boy. "I don't think I know much."
At a shop over the way our elephant stood in the sun, the Burman on its head with his white jacket and light red scarf round his hair, calmly smoking a cheroot, a welcome contrast to the busy keen Chinese life; above him hung large orange-red paper lanterns with large Chinese inscriptions.
At last our Boy got the two errant bullock-carts, and we went off in procession, a big bullock-cart with our luggage in front, a Burman youth on top with long black hair escaping from a wisp of pink silk, a Macpherson tartan putsoe round his legs, a placid expression, and a cheroot, of course.
Simpson and a squad of non-commissioned officers watched where the flickering lights gleamed down upon the dead nabob. Making his last rounds for the night, Major Hawke, with a soldier's cynical calmness, enjoyed a cheroot upon the veranda, as he bade his captain of the guard take charge until his return.
The young fellow whom they call John was in the yard, sitting on a barrel and smoking a cheroot, the fumes of which came in, not ungrateful, through the open window. The divinity-student disappeared in the midst of our talk.
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