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Updated: May 11, 2025
A third traveller was “pushing” a collar-button that plied as many trades as Figaro, combining the functions of cravat-holder, stud, and scarf-pin.
The heroine was described as having a wonderful complexion, as fair, as pink and white, as perfect in coloring as a sea-shell. "Of course!" said Ida, "and that's the sort I wish I had." Her eyes strayed from the story of the beautiful heroine to the advertising column. "Raise mushrooms," read one advertisement, next: "Try our patent collar-button," then: "Write poems for us."
William's broken collar-button was really the only collar-button in the house, except such as were engaged in serving his male guests below. At first he did not realize the extent of his misfortune. How could he? Fate is always expected to deal its great blows in the grand manner. But our expectations are fustian spangled with pinchbeck; we look for tragedy to be theatrical.
The clerks in the store were all interested, and two or three cash-boys followed us round and stood, open-mouthed, staring at us. Neither Aggie nor I knew anything about masculine attire, and Tufik's idea was a suit, with nothing underneath, a shirt-front and collar of celluloid, and a green necktie already tied and hooking on to his collar-button.
But both the Lieutenant's eyes must have been wandering for he don't seem to notice my friendly play. "Ha-ar-r-r yuh," he rumbles from somewhere below his collar-button, and with great effort he manages to focus on me with his good lamp. For a single-barreled look-over, it's a keen one, too like bein' stabbed with a cheese-tester.
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