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So he crammed a great silver watch into his fob, and drew on a patchwork morning-gown of an ancient fashion.
His vest was of figured Marseilles stuff, and gaiters of the same material partly covered his shoes; and his heavy seal, with his coat of arms upon it, fell from a pale ribbon at his fob.
It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value the description applied to both.
He knew, too, that those who sought the windows and let themselves down by ropes and warps would lose their presence of mind, and probably fall mangled and broken on the flag floor of the yard, sixty or seventy feet below. All this passed through his mind ere the old watch in his fob had marked the lapse of five seconds. In a moment his resolve was taken.
I wet the chronometer by this accedent which I had placed in my fob as I conceived for greater security. I now joined the party and we proceeded with the indians about 3 Ms. to a small Creek and encamped at sunset.
"No, if I went into burglary and kindred industries, I could never find such easy marks to practice on as dear old Uncle Ike," and the boy put his arms around the old man and asked him what time it was, and the Uncle grabbed his fob as though he was not sure whether it was there or not.
How comes it, then, that he could so often fob us off with languid, inarticulate twaddle? It seems to me that the explanation is to be found in the very quality of his surprising merits. As his books are play to the reader, so were they play to him. He was a great day-dreamer, a seer of fit and beautiful and humorous visions, but hardly a great artist.
For a while he held it in his hand, as loth to part from the tangible possession of his treasure; but manual contact could not last all day, and, as he neared his scene of labour he came late after all, by the by, and lost the quarter-day, but it mattered little now he began to cogitate a place of safety; and carefully put it in his fob.
We were sitting in the old-fashioned office, then, one snowy night in January, the Doctor leaning back in his chair, his meerschaum pipe in his mouth the one with the gold cap that a long-ago patient gave him when he straightened his back and tugged at his fob, bringing to the surface a small gold watch one I had not seen before. "Where's the silver one?"
The coach could have been driven into the Park itself, but this could not be done without the King's permission. Two men got out and walked rapidly to the pond. "A quarter past seven," said one drawing his watch from his fob. "The time of meeting, Rofflash, you say was seven." "Aye, and they'll be punctual to the minute, I'll swear." "Then we ought to find the turtle doves billing and cooing.
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