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He had been told the day before that his neck-tie was growing unfit to be seen, he did not choose to ask any one to get one for him, and it was against his will that he was obliged to take Marian to secure him from buying "any thing awful," as he expressed it.
The strange sight of him with his hair cut short or in a new neck-tie affected her in a similar manner. "Clara, go and put your pinafore on this instant!" said Maggie. "You know you oughtn't to leave it off." "You needn't be so hoity-toity, miss," Clara retorted. But she moved to obey. When she reached the door she turned again and gleefully taunted Edwin.
His white neck-tie proclaimed him a parson, and the grey mud with which his boots were bespattered told of his long walk. 'You are quite right, Lizzie, you are quite right, he said; 'I shouldn't have done it. Had I known what a state the roads were in, I wouldn't have attempted it. 'If you don't know what these roads are like in winter by this time, you never will.
He seemed but little larger than a red squirrel, and precisely that color. Sorrel hair, sorrel eyebrows, sorrel freckles, light sorrel mustache, thin aggressive nose, receding chin, and black, attentive, prominent eyes. He approached, and I gave him my ticket, which is as long as a neck-tie, and has my height, the color of my eyes and hair, and my general description, punched in the margin.
Gabbitas's kitchen, or at my North Shore lodging. And then the figure of my host, lounging at table in the rosy light, a cigarette between the shapely fingers of his right hand I had not before seen any one smoke at the dinner-table his brown velvet coat, his languidly graceful gestures, the delicate hue of his flowing neck-tie, the costly sort of negligence of his whole dress and deportment all these trifling matters were alike rare and exquisite in my eyes.
Before Ben had time for more than a grateful look, a tumbled head appeared at an upper window, and a sleepy voice drawled out, "Celia! I can't find a bit of a shoe-string, and I wish you'd come and do my neck-tie." "Lazy boy, come down here, and bring one of your black ties with you.
His eyes dilated, somewhat as might those of a child about to "dress up" for a charade; and already, in his impatience, he had undone his neck-tie. One after another, he unlocked and threw open the black tin boxes, snatching out greedily their great good splendours of crimson and white and royal blue and gold.
For this the head-covering should be studied, that it may afford shelter and shade from heat and light, and keep on, against the wind, without pressure on the temples or forehead. For this the neck-tie should he studied, and the cut of the coat-chest and sleeve, when coats must be worn: and every man must have some sort of overcoat, for chilly and damp hours of duty.
Spurgeon, gownless and guiltless of white neck-tie, or other clerical insignia, unceremoniously walked on to the platform which serves him for pulpit, there was not a foot of vacant space in the vast area looked down upon from the galleries, for even the aisles were thronged.
"Did you shoot it, Prescott?" asked Derwent, the man who had just been relieved on number four. "No; he lassoed it with his neck-tie," jeered another man of the guard. "Wonder if the prisoner is hungry!" pursued Derwent. "Prescott, the prisoner is yours. Attend to his feeding. And the poor fellow should have some proper bedding, too, a chilly night like this."
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