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Jonathan Crane, a little long-nosed old city wine-merchant, a member of the Surrey Hunt, being announced and presented, Mrs. Jorrocks declared herself faint from the heat of the room, and begged to be excused for a few minutes. Nimrod, all politeness, was about to offer her his arm, but Mr. Jorrocks pulled him back, whispering, "Let her go, let her go."
He could worm with a smile quite his own the humour out of men possessing any; and even under rigorous law, and it could not be disputed that there was rigour in the beneficent laws imposed upon him by his wife, his genius for humour and passion for sly independence came up and curled away like the smoke of the illicit still, wherein the fanciful discern fine sprites indulging in luxurious grimaces at a government long-nosed to no purpose.
Charley sought. The unknown murmured weakly. "I'd better give him a little hot milk, if he can drink it, hadn't I?" proffered Mrs. Adams; she poured a few inches into the glass and held it to his bearded lips. He tried to sip did sip, greedily, and sank back. Charley started off with the coat, to hang it over a chair. "Here, you!" objected the long-nosed man. "What are you going to do?
A long-nosed young preacher who sits opposite me looks as if he had spent all his life in some kind of a field. He has a terrible attack of religion; I never saw anybody take it any harder. He told me that he was engaged to be married and for three days he had been consulting the Lord about what kind of a ring he should buy! Sunday I went to church and heard my first English sermon in two years.
Half that coat's mine, remember. I helped fetch him in. Half the plunder comes to me." "That's no way to talk, sir," reproved Mr. Adams, sternly. "Would you rob a helpless stranger? Not in this house, sir!" "He's not dead. He's only fainted," informed Mrs. Adams, indignant. "But he gave the stuff away, didn't he?" demanded the long-nosed man. "Sure he did.
The little public-house was still lighted, but closed, and one or two men were standing talking on the kerb. Oleron noticed that a sudden silence fell on them as he passed, and he noticed further that the long-nosed Barrett, whom he passed a little lower down, did not return his good-night.
You can't expect the men who dominate this country who make its wealth, and are responsible for its prosperity, to be at the mercy of a lot of long-nosed reformers who don't know how to cash their own checks." How little this rich man knew of the world about him! How circumscribed was his vision!
At heart "The President" was not at all a bad fellow, and on many an occasion in the past season we had sipped "manhattans" together at Ciro's. Thus more than a week passed a week of grave apprehension and constant wonderment during which time the long-nosed stranger seemed to turn up everywhere in a manner quite unaccountable.
He is a singular character, a young man with much of wild, original nature still remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, though courteous, manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior.
I was arranging rugs; the chauffeur was pouring some libation from a long-nosed tin upon the altar of his goddess when our master appeared, wearing such an "I haven't stolen the cream or eaten the canary" expression that we knew at once something new was in the wind. He coughed, and floundered into explanations. "The waiter, who can speak some English, has been frightening her ladyship," said he.
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