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But as soon, as the irrepressible Wake got hold of the reins, as of course he did, the old order changed with startling rapidity. The new director made a clean sweep of Shakespeare and all his works. "What's the fun of doing Roman citizens in Eton jackets and white chokers," said he, "and sending everybody to sleep? Let's give them a change, and make them laugh."
Native assistants, in sable skins and yellowish white chokers, carrying music-scores and armed with canes, sloped through the avenues, occasionally halting to frown down some delinquent, whose body was not perfectly motionless, and whose soul was not wholly fixed upon the development of sacred time and tune. I have no doubt that they sang The sun, the moon, and all the stars, &c.
Then I'm on, old man; rather!" exclaimed the delighted Parson. "All right! Six-thirty, mind, and chokers!" said Brown, not a little relieved to have scraped up two friends for the festive occasion.
They'd been pitchin' into one another and knockin' one another's heads off, besides smashin' furnichy and chimbly crockery, but hadn't stole a thing. The fat one and the long one them two with white chokers was lyin' on the floor pootty much used up. There was another that got up-stairs and jumped out a winder.
One night at Holkham we were a large party, I daresay at least fifty at dinner the men came down in black scarfs, the women in white 'chokers. To make the contest complete, these all sat on one side of the table, and we men on the other. The battle was not renewed; both factions surrendered. But the women, as usual, got their way, and their men.
"No, he said he found a pair of shoes." "For all that you are wrong, Jenny, and he is right there were two; and, what is more, Tom Yates had got the other, threatening to blow out his brains if he moved, so down he sat on the dresser and took it quite easy and whistled a tune while we trussed the other beggar with his own bludgeon and our chokers.
With his black-walnut furniture, his jig-saw and turning-lathe methods of decoration, his lincrusta-walton and pressed terracotta, his chromos, wax flowers, hoop skirts, chokers, side whiskers and pantalettes, went a horrific revival of mock modesty inspired by the dying efforts of the old formulated religious thought.
At the ceremonies of guard mount and dress parade the country was thronged with visitors from Washington, ladies in gay gowns and scarfs, Congressmen in silk hats and chokers, apparently forgetful of their undignified role in the late affair at Bull Run even children with black mammies in scarlet turbans and white wool dresses came to watch a great army limbering up after a winter of inaction.
Glasses of wine were then produced, to sustain the drooping spirits of the family; and Miss Tox, busying herself in dispensing 'tastes' to the younger branches, bred them up to their father's business with such surprising expedition, that she made chokers of four of them in a quarter of a minute. 'You'll take a glass yourself, Sir, won't you? said Miss Tox, as Toodle appeared.
Brown, who oils his hair, and wears rings, and white chokers my eyes! such white chokers! and yet we call him the handsome snob! And so about Aunt Maria, she's very handsome and she's very finely dressed, only somehow she's not she's not the ticket, you see." "Oh, she's not the ticket," says the Colonel, much amused. "Well, what I mean is but never mind," says the boy.
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