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Then, he held out his empty glass to her, and she filled it, and he sipped deliberately, saying: "I'm warm inside. I keep on perspiring so cold. Can't make it out. Look at my finger-ends, my dear. They're whitish, aren't they?" Emilia took the hand he presented, and chafed it, and put it against her bosom, half under one arm.
You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions? There is a spirituality about the face, however" she gently turned it towards the light "which the typewriter does not generate. This lady is a musician." "Yes, Mr. Holmes, I teach music." "In the country, I presume, from your complexion." "Yes, sir, near Farnham, on the borders of Surrey."
Thus the old parish, which was not by any means an ideal place to be born and bred in, had its compensations for a holiday schoolboy who had Milton, and Klopstock, and Bunyan at his finger-ends, and had hell and the plains of heaven within an easy ramble from the paternal doorstep.
It was dark: she did not see that a man had followed her, until his white-gloved hand touched her. The manager, his uncertain face growing red. "Young woman" Lot got up, pushed off her bonnet. He looked at her. "My God! No older than Susy," he said. By a gas-lamp she saw his face, the trouble in it. "Well?" biting her finger-ends again. "I'm sorry for you, I" "Why?" sharply. "There's more like me.
I had been very busy all that morning, it being holiday time, in making some fresh arrows for a purpose I had in view, and, so as to be humane, I had made the heads by cutting off the tops of some old kid gloves, ramming their finger-ends full of cotton-wool, and then tying them to the thin deal arrows, so that each bolt had a head like a little soft leather ball.
He was a pretty blade in my time, and has all the etiquette and chivalry of the business at his finger-ends. Also he likes you." "At any rate, he is ever railing upon me with that sharp tongue of his!" said I. "But did you ever hear him rail upon any of these young men that lean on rails and roll their eyes under ladies' windows?" said the Prince. "Old Leopold Dessauer is even now no weakling.
Our houses are built upon a plan that precludes the necessity of much hard labor, but requires rather careful and nice handling. A well-trained, intelligent woman, who had vitalized her finger-ends by means of a well-developed brain, could do all the work of such a house with comparatively little physical fatigue. So stands the case as regards our houses.
As no one could come into my office without my being able to give the assurance of at least some relief that would be immediately realized, that would be felt even to the finger-ends, my office became more and more a lecture-room, a school of health culture for the education of missionaries, for a friend-to-friend uplifting into higher life.
Sir George! be pleased to bring Major Querto into your assembly. And, I pray you, bid some one send me here Tom Elliott," added the King, in a more natural tone of voice. "A bientôt! Sir George." He waved his visitors out and resumed the care of his finger-ends, neglected in the excitement of the discussion. Carteret, accompanied by Major Querto, repaired to the mainland.
"But, ma'am, I shall not break my word; I shall not, not; I intend, I have resolved to keep it. I do not fatalize, let my complexion be black or white. Despite my resemblance to a high-caste malefactor of the Calcutta prison-wards . . ." "Friend! friend! you know how I chatter." He saluted her finger-ends.
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