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Updated: June 21, 2025
As Richard, naturally, was the hero and incidentally the stronger of the two, it can readily be imagined that the fight always ended in my complete undoing. Strangulation was the method usually employed to finish me, and, whatever else Richard was at that tender age, I can testify to his extraordinary ability as a choker.
Under this black choker was a shirt of snowy white, as was his collar, while his coat and trousers looked worn and threadbare. His face was smooth-shaven, and his hair once black was now turning iron-gray. He was then about sixty years old. "A girl," said I deceitfully, "traveling afoot and alone on the prairie? Going which way?"
"The brave fellow who rescued them? Now he is the right kind of a dominie, not all white choker and starch. No fear about him, Miss Marsden. He's made of good stuff, well put together. A night's rest and a warm breakfast, and he will be himself again"; and the old doctor bustled away.
His neck was encircled by an old-fashioned silk choker. He perspired freely, and used a red silk handkerchief to remove the perspiration. His clothes fitted him, and he was as genteel-looking as any man in the audience. The slouchy appearance which he is said to have presented on other occasions was conspicuously absent here.
HIS father was a general in the Indian army nothing could be more BANAL. Then Mr. Berkeley began life as a clergyman; but now he's taken off his white choker, and wears a suit of grey tweed like any ordinary English gentleman. So delightfully unconventional, isn't it? At last, to crown it all, he not only composes delicious music, but goes and writes a comic opera such a comic opera!
He was now standing up against the fireplace, sucking a lemon. He had a large great coat on, buttoned up to the neck, and a huge choker round his throat. He was McKeon's jockey, and was to ride Playful for the forty pounds on the morrow. Bob Gayner, as he was usually called, was one of the best gentlemen riders in the country.
A most estimable young man was Muggles: a clean-shaven, spick-and-span, well-mannered young man particular as to the brushing of his hat, the tying of his scarf and the cut of his clothes; more than particular as to their puttings-on and puttings-off sack-coat and derby for mornings; top hat and frock for afternoons; bobtail and black tie for stags, and full regalia of white choker, white waistcoat and swallowtail for smart dinners and the opera.
You will have everything ready white choker, black coat and all the rest of it, and now, my dear boy, you've got to excuse me as I've got a lot of work on hand." They shook hands and Langdon's footsteps were soon echoing down the corridor. The foul insinuation that Sanderson had just made about Anna rankled in his mind. He went to the sideboard and poured himself out a good stiff drink.
"Johnnie says, it would be much the easier to do, only he is doubtful about the 'choker." Nice is broiled salmon, whitebait's also nice With bread and butter served, no shaving thinner. Entrées are good; but what is even ice Cream ice to him that's made to dress for dinner? Oh why Must swallow-tails be donned for tasting game?
"I was on'y thinkin', marm, that if you wants to befriend us poor boys they calls us waifs an' strays an' all sorts of unpurlite names you've on'y got to send a sov, or two to Miss Annie Macpherson, 'Ome of Hindustry, Commercial Street, Spitalfields, an' you'll be the means o' doin' a world o' good as I 'eard a old gen'l'm with a white choker on say the wery last time I was down there 'avin' a blow out o' bread an' soup."
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