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Updated: June 6, 2025
In his fat hand he held a gold-headed cane, and an absolutely new silk hat for it was Friday, and Mr Levi purchased a new hat every Friday of his life, holiday times only excepted. He breathed heavily and sniffed through his nose a good deal, as though he had just performed some Herculean physical labour.
Master Jock was just about to signify, by a wave of his gold-headed cane, that the mortars were to be fired the third report was to be the signal for the race to begin when far away on the puszta a young horseman was seen approaching at full tilt, cracking his whip loudly, and galloping in the direction of the competitors.
He was a very well-groomed man, dressed in garments whose fit was evidently the product of the highest art, well buttoned up, well brushed, well cared for in every way. In his buttonhole he wore a pink carnation, and in his gloved hand he carried a straight, gold-headed cane.
The president himself couldn't have rolled that sentence off better, or that old piece of pomposity who conies to the secret meetings with the gold-headed cane." "That's Judge Hildreth. He's another deep one or I lose my guess." "Why, he's a No. I deacon in one of the uptown's swellest churches!" "Guess he's a child of darkness in between times then, for I'll bet he does lots of underground work.
Nor had he meditated many minutes till he rose, and taking up his square hat and his gold-headed cane, he said "Come, we will try what we can discover in a quarter where an end of the ravelled string ought to be found, whether complicated into a knot by the twisting power of self-interest or no."
On the Thursday afternoon preceding the ordination, a large traveling carriage, covered with dust and laden with trunks, passed slowly through our village, attracting much attention. Seated within it was a portly, gray-haired man, resting his chin upon a gold-headed cane, and looking curiously out at the people in the street, who stared as curiously at him.
Often the swiftest among them was seen to dodge from under the very nose of some pompous lawgiver or doctor who, with folded arms, was skating leisurely toward the town; or a chain of girls would suddenly break at the approach of a fat old burgomaster who, with gold-headed cane poised in air, was puffing his way to Amsterdam.
No sound but the flutter of a bird, or the moan of the breaking waves of the Frith of Forth, could there interfere with his train of thought. Away he sauntered, ever turning his gold-headed cane, and driving his head farther and farther into the deep hole where, like the ancient philosopher, he expected to find truth.
There he had seen for the first time the panorama of slanting sunshades, patent leather shoes, horses cantering in the dusty sunlight, or proudly grouped, the riders flicking the flies away with gold-headed whips. He loved the androgynous attire of the horsewomen collars, silk hats, and cravats. The Park appealed to him intensely and strangely as nothing else did.
Sometimes, if I got away early, I would find him already installed, his hat stuck on his gold-headed cane in the corner as it were, all his high authority laid aside, while he regarded with moist eyes the work-basket in which Irma kept her interminable scraplets of white things which I would not have meddled with the tip of one of my fingers, but which the Advocate turned over with an ancient familiarity, humming a tune all the while a tune, however, apt to break off suddenly with a "Humph," and an appeal to the much-enduring lid of the tortoise-shell snuffbox.
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