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The thick socks were peeled from his patent-leathers, the ragged trousers stripped from an evening pair, bloodstains and Newgate fringe removed at the water's edge, and the whole sepulchre whited in less time than the thing takes to tell. Nor was that enough for Raffles, but he must alter me as well, by wearing my overcoat under his cape, and putting his Zingari scarf about my neck.
In the mean time the young man in the tasselled cap and the patent-leathers had strolled leisurely in the opposite direction to that the earl had taken, and in a little while still followed by the valet, who bore his painting tools had climbed into a field knee-deep in grass which was ready for the scythe.
And then John was led to the bootmaker's, and there measured for his first pair of patent-leathers. The Caterpillar was so exhausted by these labours that a protracted visit to the Creameries became imperative. "You've always looked like a gentleman," said the Caterpillar, after his "dringer," "and it's a comfort to me to think that now you'll be dressed like one."
His tall hat, frock coat with a carnation in the lapel, the precise crease of his trousers, the spickness of his patent-leathers and his graceful confidence of manner, proclaimed his mind to be free from all but the pleasant things of life. He greeted Uncle Peter airily. "Come down to see how we do it, eh, Mr. Bines? It's vastly engrossing, on my word.
"We ain't anything but the rounds of the ladder for Norman Lloyd to climb by, and he only sees and feels us with the soles of his patent-leathers," one of the turbulent spirits in his factory said. Mrs. Norman Lloyd would not have believed her ears had she heard him. Mrs. Lloyd had not sat long before Cynthia's fire that evening before she opened on the subject of the lost child.
Then he got his notes and sat down and began to check off, for first purchase, the luxuries which he should earliest wish to secure. "Horse buggy cutter lap-robe patent-leathers dog plug-hat church-pew stem-winder new teeth SAY, Aleck!" "Well?" "Ciphering away, aren't you? That's right. Have you got the twenty thousand invested yet?"
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