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He looked up at the top of the Metropolitan Tower. He saw no work there. He looked across at the skyscrapers on Madison Square, but his eye detected no work in any of them. He stood on his head and looked up at the flat-iron building. Still no work in sight. All that day and the next Hezekiah looked for work. A Wall Street firm had advertised for a stenographer.
Brinley had parted a laundress armed with a flat-iron from a belligerent cook armed with an ice-pick, and twice the ministers of the law had carried certain irate women bodily forth with the direst of threats lest they should return later and remove the Brinley family from the list of the living. All of which contributed to Mrs.
His type of craft looked exactly like a flat-iron with a match stuck up in the middle; it drew five feet of water or less, carried a four-inch gun forward, which was trained by the ship, and, on account of its persistent rolling, was to live in three degrees worse than a torpedo-boat.
And going twenty miles an hour, like a train!" While Carl prepared for Gertie Cowles's party by pressing his trousers with his mother's flat-iron, while he blacked his shoes and took his weekly sponge-bath, he was perturbed by partisanship with Eddie Klemm, and a longing for the world of motors, and some anxiety as to how he could dance at the party when he could not dance.
A pang may have struck the old man's heart, realizing that Phil Marden was so splendid in his strength, and that he wore so sweet a look of invitation; but he remembered Mary's vow and was content. A great pride and peace enwrapped him when the procession halted at the Flat-Iron Lot, and the minister, lifting up his voice, explained to the townspeople why they were called upon to pause.
Then she sank down at his feet, and clasped his knees in an agony of grief. A carriage stopped at the door, and a hasty step came up the walk. "Lucy Ransom," said Mrs. Here on the piazza, and with your flat-iron! What is the matter?" "Matter enough!" said Lucy. "See! see Mr." But the sobs were too frequent. She became choked, and fell into an hysterical paroxysm. By this time Mrs.
The Flat-iron, too, seemed to rejoice in his discomfiture; and at every interruption of her progress took the occasion, in spite of Natalie's paddle, to turn about and stick her nose stupidly into the mud of the bank. Every bush in turn offered a different and more complicated obstacle than the last; in three hours they made perhaps twice three hundred yards.
I did not forget the little lady in the white beaver, even after my return to Dacrefield. It is unromantic to have to confess that it fell at last into the washhand basin, and was reduced to pulp. I brought my farthing flat-iron home with me, and it was for long a favourite plaything.
She got into the pigsty to catch a young piggy, and was taken out in a sad state of dirt. She slipped into the brook, and was half drowned; broke a window and her own head, swinging a little flat-iron on a string; dropped baby in the coal-hod; buried her doll, and spoilt her; cut off a bit of her finger, chopping wood; and broke a tooth, trying to turn heels over head on a haycock.
"Don't! Don't!" Alice soothed her. "I know. I know all you can tell me. I know because I've been through " "You don't mean to say he threatened you with the flat-iron?" "If threatening was only all!" said Alice, like a martyr. "Then he's not changed, in all these years!" wept the mother of curates. "If he has, it's for the worse," said Alice. "How was I to tell?" she faced the curates.
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