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Don't you see she is whispering to Petrokoff now and looking at us through her pince-nez?" "So she is, the vixen, the miserable gossip! Slip out towards the door quietly, Kaya, while they are talking. I will follow directly. Wait at the back of the stable by the hay loft." The gypsey stood up suddenly and approached the little group of ladies, bowing to them and to Petrokoff.
Neither of the young men took off his hat, and one of them put a pince-nez on his nose. In the crowd there was a murmur, vague but unfriendly. The dandy with the pince-nez took out of his purse, which was stuffed full of bank-notes, a copper farthing and flung it into the dish. Both laughed, and, talking loudly, went back to their carriage.
Over the absinthe tripping commentary Aspasia sinks from the Chasusée d'Antin to the porter's lodge. A little crévé taps his teeth with the end of his cane, blinks his tired, wicked eyes, like a monkey in the sun, through his pince-nez, and opines, with a sharp relish, that Aspasia is destined to sweep her five stories well. Pah!
The doctor readjusted his pince-nez, and seated himself with some deliberation on the foot of the bed. "The instinct to assist a hunted fellow-creature," he observed, "is almost universal." Then he paused. "I take it, Mr. Lyndon, that you are not particularly anxious to rejoin your friends in Princetown?" I shook my head. "Not if there is a more pleasant alternative." Savaroff grunted.
Spence slowly moistened his lips with his tongue, and removing his pince-nez, took a long hard look at Millner. "I don't understand. What other guarantee have I got?" "That I mean what I say?" Millner glanced past the banker's figure at his rich densely coloured background of Spanish leather and mahogany. He remembered that it was from this very threshold that he had first seen Mr. Spence's son.
This usher was an honest man, and had a university education, but could not keep a place for any length of time, as he was subject to fits of drunkenness. Three months before a certain countess, who patronised his wife, had found him this place, and he was very pleased to have kept it so long. "Well, sirs, is everybody here?" he asked, putting his pince-nez on his nose, and looking round.
He pulled his wig down firmly over his ears, took out a pair of pince-nez and rose to cross-examine. It was the cross-examination which was to make him famous, the cross-examination which is now given as a model in every legal text-book. "Mr Jobson," he began suavely, "you say that you saw the accused steal these various articles, and that they were afterwards found upon her?" "Yes."
He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug chamber."
'Don't you think a little music would be nice, says Miss Appleby, 'nothing enlivens one so much on a wet day. 'Let us have some by all means, says Helmdon. 'I say Tommy, I'm sure you'll honour us with a song, eh, what? Tommy is a very juvenile young man, with light hair parted down the middle, a red face, and pince-nez. 'Anything you like, he responds gaily.
Canon Ebley put on his pince-nez and gave the newcomer the benefit of a keen scrutiny. "I could not say with certainty, my dear. A northerner evidently but whether Swedish or Danish it would be difficult to determine," he announced. "He does not appear to know he is funny-looking," Stella Rawson said, timidly.
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