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He then sat down before a great number of the Natives that were collected together in a large Shed or House, the rest of us, by his own desire, standing behind; he then begun a long speach or prayer, which lasted near a Quarter of an Hour, and in the Course of this Speech presented to the People two Handkerchiefs, a black silk Neckcloth, some beads, and two very small bunches of Feathers.
Among these last shone our friend Mr Pitskiver, radiant in white waistcoat and gold chains, two rings on each finger, and a cameo the size of a cheese-cake on his neckcloth.
Denner; the high neckcloth and the short-waisted, brass-buttoned coat and waistcoat showed its age, as well as the dimness of the glass and the fresh boyish face of the young man of thirty. "What what was I speaking of, Gifford?" said Mr. Denner. "You gave my aunt Ruth the picture, sir." "Oh, yes, just so, just so.
In the midshipmen's berth, outside in the steerage, the shirt without neckcloth or stock, and sometimes with its sleeves rolled up to the elbows, was the most fashionable rig.
This he said as Dolly followed him upstairs; but Dolly, wiser than her father, would say nothing about the wicked old man in the servants' hearing. In five minutes Mr. Grey came down "dressed," by the use of which word was implied the fact that he had shaken his neckcloth, washed his hands and face, and put on his slippers.
I wondered if the man Dimpdin would suggest the apportionment of flasks to soldiers, in his Evangelical report! He left me, when we regained the road, to ride with a lithe, bronchial person, in white neckcloth and coat cut close at the collar. They looked like the fox and the fiend, in the fable, and I seemed to hear the man Dimpdin's voice for three succeeding weeks.
"Oh, b'gad," cried the Captain, hoarsely, "don't you hear me, you over there? Hi! you in the neckcloth!" "Sir," said Barnabas, turning sharply and frowning again at the repetition of the word, "if you are pleased to allude to me, I would humbly inform you that my name is Beverley." "Oh!" exclaimed the Captain, "I see young Beverley, son of old Beverley and a devilish good name too!"
He wore his long riding-boots and an overcoat with the collar turned up about a neckcloth less nattily folded than usual. "I wish," he said at length, "that my boy George was clever like you. You were great friends once you remember Plymouth, hey? But I dare say you've not seen much of each other lately." Taffy shook his head. "George is a bit wild.
First went a gaudy neckcloth, with collars turned down; then a pair of spurs vanished; and lastly a diabolical instrument that he called a cane but which, by means of a running bullet, could serve as a bludgeon at one end, and concealed a dagger in the other subsided into the ordinary walking-stick adapted to our peaceable metropolis.
A cry broke from her. Here was one man frantically hitching a pair of artillery-horses to the gun and swearing fiercely in the Taal as he did so. The last time she had seen that khaki hat, long, threadbare frock-coat, huge Hessian boots and red neckcloth was at Brinkwort's Farm. The last time she had seen that malevolent face was when its owner was marched away from Brinkwort's Farm yesterday.
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