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You'll find my address in Plymouth at the foot." "If you'd kindly explain " "Mrs Penhaligon has the money. I've spoke to Dr Mant: who says I can be put right, an' the operation, with board and lodging, will be covered by ten pound. I've taken ten pound, as accounted for on the paper." Mr Pamphlett picked up the paper, and felt for his pince-nez. "Still I don't understand." "No, you wouldn't.
Presently he took off his pince-nez and put them into his pocket. "Where's White?" he repeated. "White isn't here. No, White isn't here," he repeated significantly. "What's wrong?" asked Pinto quickly. The colonel scratched his chin and looked up to the ceiling. "I'm settling up this Spillsbury business," he said. "White isn't in it." "Why not?" asked Pinto.
Really, it's not for Lichonin to stand at the counter and to watch that somebody shouldn't suddenly wine and dine and slip away." Lichonin looked straight at him, insolently, but only set his jaws and let it pass in silence. Simanovsky began in his measured, incontrovertible tone, toying with the glasses of his PINCE-NEZ: "Your intention is splendid, gentlemen, beyond dispute.
She met his glance, and observed that he perfectly understood the spirit which animated her, and that it was not opposition that shone from his bright hazel eyes, as he regarded her steadily through his pince-nez.
"Yes, that's very true," he said, when Alexey Alexandrovitch took off the pince-nez, without which he could not read now, and looked inquiringly at his former brother-in-law, "that's very true in particular cases, but still the principle of our day is freedom."
The hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall prisoner, marshalled his papers with the precision and method which old men display in tense moments such as these.
"At that time I told you I was looking for, and would reward, if found, the er man who had been so brave and quick-witted as to rescue you. You remember?" "Really, father, I beg you not to " "Why not, pray?" requested Flint, gazing at her through his pince-nez. "My intentions, I assure you, were most honest and philanthropic. If I had found him then I'd have given him "
On his very first day at the College, Peer had learned who Ferdinand Holm was, and had studied him with interest. He was a tall, straight-built fellow with reddish-blond hair and freckled face, and wore a dark tortoiseshell pince-nez. He did not wear the usual College cap, but a stiff grey felt hat, and he looked about four or five and twenty.
She was very long, and very thin, and very angular, and she was reading poetry out loud to herself as she trailed about in her long draperies. "'Oh, moon of my delight...." she declaimed, then her eye met William's. The eyes beneath her pince-nez were like little gimlets. "How dare you stare at me, you rude boy?" she said. William gasped.
He has been temporarily diverted from constructive to destructive industrialism. He did me the honours of his factory. He is a compact, active man in dark clothes and a bowler hat, with a pencil and notebook conveniently at hand. He talked to me in carefully easy French, and watched my face with an intelligent eye through his pince-nez for the signs of comprehension.
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