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"Its paws are white really, but I think it's been in the coal-hole." This seemed very likely, for not only its paws but the smart ribbon Ruth had tied round its neck was grimy and black. "It's not exactually pretty," she continued, "but it's a very nice cat. You can't think how well it knows me generally." Mr. Lorimer studied the long lean form of the cat curiously through his eye-glass.
During the first weeks of its life he sat for hours at a time beside the gilt cradle, staring thoughtfully through his eye-glass at the future Wendelin XVII. Soon this occupation ceased to interest him, and he drifted along once more on the sluggish waves of his former existence, from minute to minute, from hour to hour.
"My dearest coz, I'm awfully glad to see you again, and looking so uncommonly well too." He puts up his eye-glass to make sure of this fact, then drops it "Uncommonly well," he repeats; "give you my word I never saw you looking half a quarter so handsome before in my life. Ah! why can't we all be Moorish princesses, and wear purple silks and yellow roses?"
At the end of the first day she struck for one-and six, and got it. We now pass to my boyhood. At an early age, I was sent to Eton, everybody predicting a bright career for me. But," said Psmith solemnly, fixing an owl-like gaze on Mike through the eye-glass, "it was not to be." "No?" said Mike. "No. I was superannuated last term." "Bad luck." "For Eton, yes. But what Eton loses, Sedleigh gains."
We're all here to see the fisherwoman from the wilds of Norway, the creature Sir Philip Errington married last year. I conclude she'll give us fits all round, don't yew?" Lord Masherville, at this, appears to hesitate. His eye-glass troubles him, and he fidgets with its black string.
Going on faster than we are." "Why, yes," said the Rector, taking up the newspaper. "Here is the 'Trumpet' accusing you of lagging behind did you see?" "Eh? no," said Mr. Brooke, dropping his gloves into his hat and hastily adjusting his eye-glass. But Mr. Cadwallader kept the paper in his hand, saying, with a smile in his eyes
Therefore he did not see that Miss Palliser, who had been watching the scene from a balcony on the front, had come down and joined the group; neither did he hear her cheerful replies to a volley of inquiries. "Yes; I've seen her. Nice day isn't it? What? No, I wouldn't if I were you. I say, what a swagger eye-glass! Jolly, those long stems, aren't they?
But now he began to see light. 'Great Scott, Smith, he said, 'did you tell him you'd send those speeches to the papers if he sacked me? Psmith looked at him through his eye-glass, and helped himself to another piece of toast.
On the next evening when the company were assembled again chez Madame la Présidente, she told them with much regret that Baron Euchar had written to say that he was unexpectedly obliged to start immediately on a journey, and must postpone the continuation of his story till he came back. Ludwig happened to be passing at the time, and naturally he had a look at the arrivals through his eye-glass.
"That's not Signor Brunoni!" said Miss Pole decidedly; and so audibly that I am sure he heard, for he glanced down over his flowing beard at our party with an air of mute reproach. "Signor Brunoni had no beard but perhaps he'll come soon." So she lulled herself into patience. Meanwhile, Miss Matty had reconnoitred through her eye-glass, wiped it, and looked again.
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