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Updated: June 18, 2025
It was De Wette himself! the scholar, author, professor, his height, size, figure, stoop, his head, his face, his features, eyes, mouth, nose, chin, every one, skullcap, study-gown, neck-tie, all, everything: there was no mistaking him, no deception whatever: there stood Dr. De Wette in his own library, and he out in the street: why, he must be somebody else!
You see Gilbert has come home quite alive enough for mischief. 'Ah! I thought I might be excused. Mamma was so uneasy though I know you don't admit visitors my just coming to see We've been always so anxious about Gilbert. Gibbie dear, where is that flannel I gave you for your throat? She advanced to put her finger within his neck-tie and feel for it.
His broken arm was causing him considerable suffering, and having acquired during my knock-about life some rude knowledge of surgery, I put the fracture together, and made a sling with my neck-tie. I explained my situation to Chung as well as I was able; he translated to his countryman, who knew no English, and we held a council as to future proceedings.
He turned his eyes again to the rising sun, and his heart silently chanted its love and pride and sadness in the phrases of Beethoven, of Schubert and of Brahms, and from time to time, softly, he muttered to himself, this stout young German Jew with the red neck-tie and the strange round hat: "Süsses Kind! Unglückliches Kind! Oh der schöne Tag!"
"Ah that's what I wanted from you in so many clear-cut golden words though I won't in the least of course pretend that I've felt I literally need it. I don't literally need the big turquoise in my neck-tie; which incidentally means, by the way, that if you should admire it you're quite welcome to it. Such words that's my point are like such jewels: the pride, you see, of one's heart.
The nearest person was a young man of eighteen, or perhaps more, with an incipient, straw-colored mustache, and a shock of hair of tow-color. This young man wore a variegated neck-tie, a stiff standing-collar, and a suit of clothes in the extreme of fashion. Phil looked at him hesitatingly. The young man observed the look, and asked condescendingly: "What can I do for you, my son?"
To the utter amazement of Tara, and of the enemy, he silently sprang at the bigger boy; grabbed him unscientifically by the knot of his superior neck-tie and hit out, with more fury than precision, at cheeks and eyes and nose For a few exciting seconds he had it all his own way. Then the enemy recovered from the first shock of surprise spluttered wrathfully and hit out in return.
I lost sight of 'im for a while, and then one evening he turned up on furlough and come to see me. O' course, by this time 'e was tired of soldiering, but wot upset 'im more than anything was always 'aving to be dressed the same and not being able to wear a collar and neck-tie. He said that if it wasn't for the sake of good old England, and the chance o' getting six months, he'd desert.
The two ruffians lounging against the wall had justified, horribly justified, my worst suspicions of them. On the arrival of Mrs. Gootheridge and her brother, we carried him up to his room. We laid him on the bed, with his neck-tie off, and his throat free, and the air blowing over him from the open window. He showed no sign yet of coming to his senses. But still the pulse went faintly on.
Pa want so sociable after that, and he went back in the woods with his knife; with nothing on but a linen duster and a neck-tie, while his pants were drying on a tree, to cut a switch, and we hollered to him that a party of picnicers from Lake Side were coming ashore right where his pants were, to pic-nic, and Pa he run into the woods.
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