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Updated: May 4, 2025
Too true. It was indeed most unfortunate. In my neighbourhood all the shops close at two o'clock Thursdays, and it would have been as easy to buy a collar-stud as an elephant at Kensington just then. What was to be done? A sudden inspiration struck me.
Therefore did he vanish into a diminutive and rather stuffy smoking-room, under the stairs, unfasten his nankeen waistcoat, unfasten his collar-stud, doze and finally, a little anxiously, sleep. Whatever Marshall Wace's diffidence in ordinary intercourse, it effectually disappeared so soon as he began to declaim or to recite. The histrionic in him declared itself, rising dominant.
On the second, having evidently decided to treat us to all the resources of his wardrobe as soon as possible, he appeared in more or less ordinary evening attire. He wore a small white satin bow-tie, attached to his collar-stud by a brass clip.
We were very thankful to have found the boy again, and within three weeks we were happily home once more, and the adventure with the Magic Carpet was a thing of the past. The carpet itself was left floating out at sea, and from that day to this I have not heard of it again. It all began with the collar-stud at least I put it down at that.
"A sound mind in a sound body!"... He was rather vain of his neat shoes, too, and doubtless stunted his feet; and she had seen the little spot on his neck caused by the chafing of his collar-stud.... No, she did not want him to touch her, just now at any rate.
I am sure Oswald was as quick as anyone could have been, but long ere the tyre was thoroughly blowed Albert's uncle appeared, with a collar-stud and tie and blazer, and his hair tidy, and wrenching the unoffending machine from Oswald's surprised fingers.
He advanced up to Smith with a face as red as the collar-stud he had lost, and cried, "Say that again, and I'll knock you down." "You're a fool," quietly repeated Jack. Horncastle didn't knock him down, or attempt to do so. He turned on his heel and said, "We'll see if we're to be robbed by shop-boy cads, or any of your young thieving friends.
With his head high he walked ahead of them, trod on a lady's dress, blushed, heard his father say: "Look where you're going, my boy," heard May giggle, frowned indignantly, and was conscious of the horrid pressure of his collar-stud against his throat; arrived, hot, confused, and very proud, in the dark splendour of the box. The first play of his life, and how magnificent a play it was!
Tasker's head was seen wrestling fiercely with its back collar-stud. "Mr. Tredgold!" said a sharp voice from above. Mr. Tredgold sprang to his feet, overturning the chair in his haste, and gazed aloft. "Miss Drewitt!" he cried, in accents of intense surprise. "I am coming down," said the voice. "Pray be careful," said Mr. Tredgold, anxiously; "it is very dark. Can I help you?"
Jack Fenleigh a bone collar-stud, while a boy named Hamond promised what was vaguely described as "part of a musical box," and which afterwards turned out to be the small revolving barrel, the only fragment of the instrument which remained.
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