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Updated: June 22, 2025
He montioned her to a seat with the wave of the fan he was vigorously using, and taking her letter of introduction, adjusted eye-glasses upon a ripe-colored nose, and read it with a scowl that rippled his face with furrows.
It was natural that he acquired some supplemental facts, that her eyes, under her eye-glasses, were a tender gray, and touched with the melancholy beauty of near-sightedness; that her face had a sensitive mobility beyond the mere charm of color, and like most people lacking this primitive and striking element of beauty, what was really fine about her escaped the first sight.
The white people who questioned the wisdom of starting this new school had in their minds pictures of what was called an educated Negro, with a high hat, imitation gold eye-glasses, a showy walking-stick, kid gloves, fancy boots, and what not in a word, a man who was determined to live by his wits.
She did not put on her eye-glasses; they were reserved for feminine audiences exclusively. "What do they mean by sending me this jumble of stuff?" she demanded, indicating the papers strewn on the silk coverlid. "How do they expect me to know what they are all about?" "They don't," said Quin reassuringly, coming forward; "they sent me to tell you." "And who are you, pray?" "I am Mr.
In dress and appearance he resembled very much the ordinary valet in private service, except for his eye-glasses, and that his face lacked the smooth pastiness of the class. For some reason or other my companion seemed to take a dislike to him. "Come," she said to me, "we will move over to the other side. I think we shall get in quicker."
Fledgling at one or other of the learned professions, always aggressively smooth and well-bred, a veritable paragon of polish without a single redeeming mannerism, to Morgan he represented one large swagger. There was something in the pose of the eye-glasses and in the clean-shaven upper lip that told of boundless conceit and infinite self-assurance.
She looked at him against the background of flowering magnolia. There was something curious in the sight. Perhaps it was that the heavy wax-like flowers were so smooth and inarticulate, and his face he had thrown his hat away, his hair was rumpled, he held his eye-glasses in his hand, so that a red mark appeared on either side of his nose was so worried and garrulous.
I pounced on the error, and found that she had jotted down each pint in the shilling instead of in the pence column. After Francesca had broken ground on the bill in this way, Salemina, on the next leisure evening, draws a large armchair under the lamp and puts on her eye-glasses. We perch on either arm, and, after identifying our own extras, we summon the butler to identify his.
"Wouldn't do this to everybody. But a naval man even if he is dodgin' Uncle Sam " "I'll be here," I assured him. At that time I wore a pointed beard. This I shaved. Also I was accustomed to use eye-glasses. The trouble was merely a slight astigmatism which bothered me only in reading or close inspection. I could get along perfectly well without the glasses, so I discarded them.
'Why, couldn't I go alone? said Jimmy. Miss Morton did not answer, but she put on her eye-glasses again, and looked Jimmy up and down from head to foot. 'Ring the bell, she said, and when he had rung the bell and the butler had come, Aunt Selina told him to send Hannah. Jimmy stood on the hearth-rug whilst the black cat rubbed its back against his leg wondering who Hannah might be.
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