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O'Riley's admirers gave him a solitaire diamond pin of the size of a filbert, in imitation of the liberality of Mr. Weed's friends, and then Mr. O'Riley retired from active service and amused himself with buying real estate at enormous figures and holding it in other people's names. The newspapers clamored, and the courts proceeded to try the new legislators for their small irregularities.
The State: "I mean, you saw him without his being aware of the fact that you were looking at him for the purpose of identification?" Witness. "Yes, sir." The State: "I will now ask you to look about this court room and tell the jury whether you see the man known to you as Filbert Morton?" Witness, pointing to Smilk: "That's him over there."
Filbert, whom I really owed a bread-and-butter visit, and who, I knew, would not mind my coming in the evening. The general, she said, had been telling her of our pleasant chat in the car, and would be glad to smoke his after-dinner cigar with me, and why wouldn't I come into the library? "We were so very jolly together, all three, that I made light of my misadventure about the picture.
It was well that Velvet-paw was as swift afoot as she was soft, for one of these great owls had very nearly caught her, while she was eating a filbert that she had found in a cleft branch, where a nuthatch had fixed it, while she pecked a hole in the shell.
The ravines and grass-green benches into which they were broken, with here and there a garden hut enclosed in a patch of filbert bushes for Pera was not then the city it now is were of no interest to the Prince; dropping his eyes to the water, they took in a medley of shipping, then involuntarily turned to the cold gray face of the wall he was leaving.
She pressed the catch of the locket and opened it, and from the small receptacle revealed within, where a miniature might once have been, she took forth a tightly folded half sheet of yellow parchment paper, which had it been wadded into a ball would have made a sphere about the size of the kernel of a fair-sized filbert.
Her dress and her toupet were black, relieved by silver sequins and a silver mounted tiara. High lights in keeping with the scheme were supplied by other jewels on her fingers, her glittering filbert nails and a diamond pendant that sparkled on the white and bony ridge of her breastbone.
Why not say on arrival: 'My dear Archdeacon, your sermon and your mutton the same evening c'est trop! I cannot so impose upon your generosity. I have come for the mutton!" Thus was Captain Laura Filbert superseded, as doubtless often before, by an orthodox consideration.
Moreover, his suggestion appeared to my conceptions to be both timely and effective, carrying with it, as it did, a thought of the opening of the burs, of the descent of autumn on the vernal forest, of the rich meatiness of the kernel; a thought of the delectable filbert, the luscious pecan and the succulent walnut the latter, however, having a tendency to produce cramping sensations when partaken of to excess.
"Do take a chair. It will be even more soothing to see you comfortable." Captain Filbert spoke again to Alicia, as she obeyed. "Miss Howe is more thoughtful for others than some of our converted ones," she said, with vast kindness. "I have often told her so. I have had a long day."
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