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Updated: June 18, 2025
But these people I am up against know your face as well as they know mine. If my secretary is known in certain quarters to have crossed to Paris at this time and to have interviewed certain people and that would be known as soon as it happened then the game is up. He threw away his cigar-end and looked at me questioningly.
"I shall," said the major, puffing away at his bit of cigar. "If we don't soon have food I shall either kill and eat the monkey or Master Mark here! I must have something. By the way, don't throw your cigar-end down save it. Tobacco may grow scarce."
The General, the Chancellor, and the doctor, knew the signal for retirement, and rose simultaneously with the discharge of his cigar-end in sparks on the unlit logwood pile. My father and Mr. Peterborough kept their chairs. There was, I felt with relief, no plot, for nothing had been definitely assented to by me.
I was just going to turn off to this as a more promising field for exploration, when I heard a window open ahead of me in my original building. I am afraid I am getting obscure, so I append a rough sketch of the scene, as I partly saw and chiefly imagined it. From it I could just distinguish through the fog a hand protrude, and throw something out cigar-end?
They took their boat and idled about the waters inside the point, dozing under an awning, smoking, gaping, and wishing that headaches were out of fashion, while the taciturn and tarry skipper instructed the dignified and urbane Thomas in the science of trolling for blue-fish. At length Ned tossed his cigar-end overboard and braced himself for an effort.
While I stood watching the red cigar-end promenading up and down, the mate suddenly stopped and gave an order, and the men sprang to obey it. It was not much, only something about hoisting one of the sails a little higher up on the mast.
Now, do as I bid you directly." "When a man is told by the girl he loves to do anythink, he is bound to do it even if it wor the sheddin' of his blood. Susan, your word is law." He turned and tossed the cigar-end out of the window. Susan laughingly stooped, kissed the urchin's forehead, and called him a good boy. "Now," said she, "what do you mean by sayin' that this is a curious world?
I rose and bade him good-night, with a last impression of him leaning back in his dressing-gown, a sodden cigar-end in the corner of his mouth, his beard all slopped with whisky, and his half-glazed eyes looking sideways after me with the leer of a satyr. I had to go into the street and walk up and down for half-an-hour before I felt clean enough to go to bed.
I buried it in the front garden." A vague smile passed on his face like a pale gleam of light over water on a cloudy day. "Wiggleswick is deaf. He couldn't hear it." "He's a lazy scoundrel," said Sypher. "I wonder you don't sack him." Septimus licked a hanging strip of cigar-end into position he could never smoke a cigar properly and lit it for the third time.
The tale held Harvey almost breathless, his head a little cocked to one side, his eyes fixed on his father's face, as the twilight deepened and the red cigar-end lit up the furrowed cheeks and heavy eyebrows.
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