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Updated: June 12, 2025
They did not fail to abscond with M. Colonna's pet terrier and with the steward's potatoes: no surveillance can keep this long-fingered lot from picking and stealing. It is a political as well as a social mistake to take negro first-class passengers.
A hand stole forth from beneath her veils, slender, long-fingered with nails like rosy pearls; above the wrist was coiled a golden dragon with wicked little crimson eyes. The slender white hand touched Ruth's head, turned it until the strange, flecked orbs looked directly into the misty ones of blue. Long they gazed and deep.
At dusk he sent us home, each with a bar of brown barley sugar smelling to the blue of opium which he fished out of one of his numerous jumpers with his long-fingered, sensitive hands.
There was no mention of music, and at last Mrs. Mansfield got up to go. As they said good-night she looked at Heath and remarked: "We shall meet again?" He clasped her hand, and answered, slightly reddening: "Oh, I hope so! I do hope so!" That was all. All that was unnecessary. Charmian touched a long-fingered hand and uttered a cold little "Good-night."
He stared at her again, studying her poor garb, noticing the gloveless hands, appraising the worn garments she wore. He was rubbing thin long-fingered hands together and shaking his head, in slow assent. "We have to be very careful," his voice quavered. "We have to know the people." "Then I'll go, of course," she answered swiftly, "because you don't know me."
Captain Carroll had actually a look of offence. "I hope as I hain't done nothin' that ain't reg'lar," he stammered. Captain Carroll stepped close to him. He laid one white long-fingered hand on the barber's white jacket-sleeve. He whispered with slyest confidence, although no one was within hearing: "You keep that money a little while longer," he whispered.
And as he stood looking up at his tall visitors, head on one side, he reminded them of nothing so much as a sleek cock-robin who had just dined to his taste. He seemed to be in his late thirties. David would have smiled at any other time. "Why, this," he thought unkindly, "is a mere comic valentine." The comic valentine smiled, a little shyly it seemed, and put out a slender long-fingered hand.
He was abed, and had his head propped high on pillows; his face was wasted and colorless, his deep-sunken eyes were shut; his hand, lying on his breast, was talon- like, it was so bony and long-fingered. The widow began her introduction of me.
"Come in," he said, and with one of his long-fingered hands he made a gesture toward the opposite side of the room and spoke my name and that of another. She was there! I had never seen her before. She was there. I had no thought of her ancestry, her wealth, or her position.
But the hands were those of a man of letters bony and long-fingered, but refined, touching things with care and gentleness, like one accustomed to the small tools of the writer. At last the Rector threw himself back in his chair, while some of the litter on his lap fell to the floor, temporarily dislodging one of the terriers, who sat up and looked at him with reproach.
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