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And a young man threw a piece of it in her face, and " The lady nodded and Oswald began. He told the story from the very beginning, as he has always been taught to, though he hated to lay bare the family honour's wound before a stranger, however judgelike and gimlet-eyed He told all not concealing the pudding-throwing, nor what the young man said about soap.
My sympathy for the poor old scout was too deep for words. I kept away from the studio for some time after that, because it didn't seem right to me to intrude on the poor chappie's sorrow. Besides, I'm bound to say that nurse intimidated me. She reminded me so infernally of Aunt Agatha. She was the same gimlet-eyed type. But one afternoon Corky called me on the 'phone. "Bertie." "Halloa?"
Who would have dreamt that there were any mutual admiration societies in co-educational colleges? I am amazed. What won't these investigators discover next? Why, one of them is just as likely as not to get wise to the fact that there is a hired-girl problem. You can't keep anything away from these gimlet-eyed scientists. Oh, sure!
'D n her gooseberry wig! said the corporal, when she was out of hearing. 'That gimlet-eyed jade mother adjutant, as we call her is a greater plague to the regiment than prevot-marshal, sergeant-major, and old Hubble-de-Shuff the colonel into the bargain. The vivacity of this good lady, as it helped Edward out of this scrape, was like to have drawn him into one or two others.
'D n her gooseberry wig, said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade mother adjutant, as we call her is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, sergeant-major, and old Hubble-de-Shuff, the colonel, into the bargain. The vivacity of this good lady, as it helped Edward out of this scrape, was like to have drawn him into one or two others.
But I will be quite frank I know when I am dealing with gentlemen and I am almost certain, if you leave the matter in my hands, my client would relieve you of the bargain, so as you would lose " he consulted our faces with gimlet-eyed calculation "nothing," he added shrilly. And here Pinkerton amazed me. "That's a little too thin," said he. "I have the wreck.
"As far as that will carry us," said Clifford. "It is no great matter. We are riding for pleasure merely." "You choose a strange day for it, sir!" remarked a gimlet-eyed old gentleman on the other side of the car, looking at Clifford and his companion, as if curious to make them out.
Also it evidently impressed the men, for as they drew rein in front of the store, with its dust-dry shelves and haunting silence, all asked quick questions of the proprietor, a little wizened, gimlet-eyed Mexican who was leaning in the doorway. After glancing over their accoutrements with a nod of understanding, he answered, explaining the reason for the agitation.
Now, let us go back into the drawing-room, and my daughter will give us some tea." When Nicol Hendry left "The Wilderness" that afternoon he was about the most mystified man in London. After he had gone, Franklin Marmion said to Nitocris: "Well, Niti, what do you think of our gimlet-eyed friend? Will he do?" "Yes, Dad; I like his manner, and he seems very clever in his own way.
I hadn't had more'n a glimpse of her for weeks now, and while I might not feel like givin' her complete details of all that had happened to me recent, I thought I might drop an illuminatin' hint or so. Was I goin' to let a gimlet-eyed old dame with an acetic acid disposition block me off as easy as that? "Herman," says I, "you can just drop me on Madison-ave. as we go down.
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