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Updated: May 2, 2025
I should have instinctively risen from my chair and offered my aristocratic looking visitor a chair had not the keeper unconsciously brought me to a realization of my true position by remarking: "Say, Counsellor, I guess while you're talking to his nibs I'll step out into the hall and take a smoke." "Certainly," said I, glad to be rid of him, "I will be responsible for the er prisoner."
"We'll pull it off out there on the lawn where all the multitude can see you'll have to lead his nibs out and guide him to the Flopper while the hush falls and you look kind of scared you know the lay. There's no one can touch you when it comes to playing up to the house.
I will return in half an hour to lead in the prayer at the opening of the directors' meeting. Kindly inform the gentlemen when they arrive." He slammed the door as he left the offices. The telephone operator abstractedly chewed her gum as she watched his departure. "I wonder now. I ain't seen his nibs so flustered since I been on this job," she mused. "That cop must 'ave got his goat. I wonder!"
Even where the authorities were unprejudiced they were helpless to interfere; and as a rule they were as bitter against the Black Nibs as the populace themselves. Once the patriarch was running through the street with a score of the enemy at his heels, and the bailie, opening his window, shouted to them, "Stane the Black Nib oot o' the toon!"
That will do very well at other times. He expects the naval salute when you first come on board greeny!" I began to feel alarmed, and begged him to explain. "Why, you see, after touching your hat, you should have touched him lightly with your forefinger in his waistcoat, so, and asked, 'How's his nibs? you see?" "How's his nibs?" I repeated. "Exactly.
Soon nothing was seen but boys playing this game, and the more skilful acquired vast stores of nibs. But in a little while Mr. Watson made up his mind that it was a form of gambling, forbade the game, and confiscated all the nibs in the boys' possession.
"No, iv course not, but what price his nibs in the noble belltopper mentionin' it t' th' Johns, an' gettin' you seven days fer disgustin' behaviour?" Nickie smiled inscrutably, and continued his work. When the carriage returned, he made an adroit movement, and courteously opened the door. "'Low me, Jinny, my dear," he said, offering his grimy hand.
"I cannot strike," he said with awe, "there is something stays my hand." All looked at him in wonder, save Nibs, who fortunately looked at Wendy. "It is she," he cried, "the Wendy lady, see, her arm!" Nibs bent over her and listened reverently. "I think she said, 'Poor Tootles," he whispered. "She lives," Peter said briefly. Slightly cried instantly, "The Wendy lady lives."
This applied to Kitty's outfit, for she wore blue overalls, and a boy's cap, that looked better on her cropped head than could any other sort of hat, and her bare feet completed a really charming rustic picture. "Gardening, you said it!" exclaimed Kitty in pardonable slang. "That's what I have to do when 'her nibs' is in town.
The money isn't coming in yet, I admit, but we must give it time. Soon we shall be turning over hundreds a week, hundreds! I'm in touch with all the big places, Whiteley's, Harrod's, all the nibs. Here I am, I said to them, with a large chicken farm with all the modern improvements. You want eggs, old horses, I said: I supply them.
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