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"You're funny this morning," said I, utterly at a loss to guess what he was driving at. "So will you be funny when you get transported for stealing!" "What do you mean?" asked Smith, solemnly. "Mean; why, I mean my collar-stud." A general laugh interrupted the speaker at this point, which did not tend to improve his spirits.
His room's next to yours, said The Infant, nursing a cobwebbed bottle of Burgundy. Then I found Lieutenant-Colonel A.L. Corkran, I.A., who borrowed a collar-stud and told me about the East and his Sikh regiment. 'And are your subalterns as good as ever? I asked. 'Amazin' simply amazin'! All I've got to do is to find 'em jobs. They keep touchin' their caps to me and askin' for more work.
He was all packed ready to go to Scotland, when his wife asked him if he could lend her a collar-stud for her flannel shirts, and he said, "Yes, but you must carry it yourself, I'm full up!" To that man Pauline, I am sure, would be very attractive.
An only collar-stud that will disappear as if by magic from between his thumb and finger and vanish apparently into thin air is a piece of good fortune sent on these occasions only to those whom the gods love.
Putchy, my housekeeper. "Please, Mrs. Putchy, send at once to the nearest hosier's and buy me a plain collar-stud, and kindly ask Mary to get back as quickly as possible. I am expecting the cab every moment." "It is at the door, sir," said Mrs. Putchy; "and I don't know, I'm sure, where Mary will be able to get a collar-stud for you to-day. This is Thursday, you know, sir, early closing day."
"I thought it had got down a hole," he said, "but you found it wonderfully." "It simply flew!" cried Judy. "Clever old thing!" she added with admiration. "I've found harder things than that," said Stumper. "It hid itself well, though bang in the open like a lost collar-stud. Thought I'd never look there!"
Meg was lying down in one of the dismantled bedrooms, and when Jan arrived she went straight to her father in his dressing-room. She found him on his knees, pursuing a refractory collar-stud under the wash-stand. "It's well you've come," he said as he got up. "I can't fasten my collar or my tie. I've had a devil of a time. My fingers are all thumbs and I'm most detestably sticky."
You get used to it after you have been in the theatre for awhile, and, except for leaving your watch and pocketbook at home when you have to pay a call on a manager and keeping your face to him so that he can't get away with your back collar-stud, you don't take any notice of it. It's all a game. If a manager swindles you, he wins the hole and takes the honor. If you foil him, you are one up.
I'll complain to the police, and let them know you know all about it, you two." "I don't know anything about it," said I, feeling it incumbent on me to make a remark, "except that I don't think a red bone collar-stud costs ten shillings." This occasioned another laugh at the expense of Mr Horncastle, who retorted, "You're a companion of thieves and blackguards, that's what you are.
'I can't decide whether to ask him here or not, said Bruce, walking up and down the room in agitation. 'Well, suppose we leave it till tomorrow. You can make up your mind then, she said good-naturedly. Edith was dressed, when she found Bruce still in the throes of an agitated toilet. Having lost his collar-stud, he sat down and gave himself up to cold despair.
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