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"Of course," said the solicitor, rising in turn, and adjusting the troublesome pince-nez, "there was some intrigue with Leroux? So much is evident." "You will be thinking that, eh?" "My dear Inspector" Mr. Debnam, the wily, was seeking information "my dear Inspector, Leroux's own wife was absent in Paris quite a safe distance; and Mrs.
Faced by his mother's gold-rimmed pince-nez, he did not see himself insisting upon that detail: "A young lady I happened to find asleep on a moor in Brittany. And seeing it was a fine night, and there being just room in the machine. And she I mean I well, here we are."
I called in at the club this afternoon. Did you get my message?" The little secretary blinked at him through his pince-nez. "There have been so many messages about this shocking affair that really I forget ..." He sighed heavily. "Couldn't I come in and have a yarn now?" Bruce spoke cajolingly. But Mr. Jeekes wrinkled his brow fussily.
Holmes was shewn in, a tall, dark, thin, nervous woman wearing pince-nez and an austere sad-coloured garment. She apologised for disturbing me. "But," she said, sitting down on the couch, "I am in such great trouble and I could think of no one but you to advise me." "What's the matter?" I asked. "It's Randall.
Fifty things came up as she stood there before him, some of them floating in from the past, others hovering with freshness: how she used to dodge the rotary movement made by his pince-nez while he always awkwardly, and kindly, and often funnily, talked it had once hit her rather badly in the eye; how she used to pull down and straighten his waistcoat, making it set a little better, a thing of a sort her mother never did; how friendly and familiar she must have been with him for that, or else a forward little minx; how she felt almost capable of doing it again now, just to sound the right note, and how sure she was of the way he would take it if she did; how much nicer he had clearly been, all the while, poor dear man, than his wife and the court had made it possible for him publicly to appear; how much younger, too, he now looked, in spite of his rather melancholy, his mildly jaundiced, humorously determined sallowness and his careless assumption, everywhere, from his forehead to his exposed and relaxed blue socks, almost sky-blue, as in past days, of creases and folds and furrows that would have been perhaps tragic if they hadn't seemed rather to show, like his whimsical black eyebrows, the vague, interrogative arch.
The general frowned at the interruption, and, after a moment's silence, took the card, put on his pince-nez and, groaning from pain in his loins, rose to his full height, rubbing his benumbed fingers. "Show him into the cabinet." "Permit me, Your Excellency, to finish it myself," said the artist, rising. "I feel a presence."
Simon," he said, "you have a strong head-piece, and I heard you this morning asking the five hardest questions about this business. Well, if you will ask them again, I will answer them." Simon's pince-nez dropped from his nose in his doubt and wonder, but he answered at once.
Major Bullivant, always keen on making an early reconnaissance during a set battle, rang up at noon to say that he had been as far as a high wood, a mile and a half in front of his battery. "I got a very long view from there," he went on, "and saw no sign at all of any Boche...." The colonel, putting on his pince-nez, studied his map and asked the major for the exact position.
That is that you have shares, large and numerous, in the armaments firm of Pottle and Kett, of which Sir John Levis, your father-in-law, is chief director." Charles fixed on him a surprised stare. He put on his pince-nez, the better to look. "I do not think," he said, in his calm, smooth voice, "that I am called upon to discuss with you the sources of my income.
It was time, he said to himself, that the foot of Authority was set firmly down, and the strong right hand of Justice allowed to put in some energetic work. His comments on the team's fielding that morning were bitter and sarcastic. His eyes gleamed behind their pince-nez. The painful interview took place after breakfast. The head of the house despatched his fag in search of Mike, and waited.
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