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His school overcoat, his cap, his snowboots, and the hair on his temples were all white with frost, and his whole figure from head to foot diffused such a pleasant, fresh smell of the snow that the very sight of him made one want to shiver and say "brrr!" His mother and aunt ran to kiss and hug him.
Gray shook his curly head. "Go ask, if you like, but Morton's in no shape to help you " "Has he been drinking, sir?" said the sergeant-major, in surprise. "I never knew him " "Oh, it isn't that," said Gray hastily, "only he's he's got other matters on his mind! Bring me his overcoat.
He saw it and slunk along the walls, his hat on his brows, uneasily aware of the glances of women which usually warmed him like wine. At a secondhand dealer's, a dark den with coats and trousers hanging in layers about the entrance, he bought a suit of clothes and an overcoat. Carrying these in a bundle he went back to his room and put them on. The transformation was now complete.
"No matter," Tom answered cheerily. "I've been doing bench work so long in here that I need exercise. I can run over all the stuff." After Reade had pulled on his overcoat and buttoned it he fastened a belt around his waist. Through this he thrust a geologist's hammer. "Don't go to sleep, Harry, old fellow, until you've cooled and weighed the button. Then you may just as well take a nap as not."
As the story goes, it appears that 'Old Nick, as he was familiarly called, invested in an overcoat of this material, and took great pride in wearing it, much to the annoyance of the women folks. It happened that one cold, stormy night the faithful family coachman was at the house without an overcoat, and Mrs.
By this time the colonel had got on his overcoat and gloves, and had his hat in one hand, and was leaning over his wife, resting the other hand on the back of the chair in which she sat warming the toes of her slippers at the draft of the stove. She popped him a cheery little kiss on his mustache, and gave him a small push: "Stay as long as you like, Ned. I shall not be in the least lonesome.
"The system won't accept destruction on any othah tomes," said Miss Woodburn, demurely. At the reception, where two men in livery stood aside to let him pass up the outside steps of the house, and two more helped him off with his overcoat indoors, and a fifth miscalled his name into the drawing-room, the Syracuse stone-cutter's son met the niece of Mrs.
Larcher obeyed, and as soon as the old man's overcoat was off, and the old man ready for conversation, plunged into his subject. "Do you know what's become of my friend Davenport?" he asked, in a low tone. "No. Hope he's well and all right. What makes you ask like that?" "Haven't you read of his disappearance?" "Disappearance? The devil! Not a word! I been too busy to read the papers.
He leisurely took off his shawl and overcoat, laid them on a shelf of rock, and moved away to collect the dry stuff which lay to hand. The three young people exchanged glances. "What's this new mystery?" asked Audrey. "All bluff! some deep game of his own," growled Copplestone. "He's the most consummate old liar I ever " "You're wrong this time, old chap!" interrupted Vickers.
"What's the meaning of this?" he asked in a stern tone. "Tut! Silliness. He's always like that." Sophia Antonovna was obviously vexed. But she dropped the information, "Necator," from her lips just loud enough to be heard by Razumov. The abrupt squeaks of the fat man seemed to proceed from that thing like a balloon he carried under his overcoat.
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