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"I've not seen it yet," Peter said rather timidly. "It sounds very nice." Miss Barnett gave him a rather contemptuous look through her pince-nez and turned to Hilary. "Lor!" whispered Mrs. Johnson to Peter. "They do get so excited about pictures. Just like that they go on all day, squabblin' and peckin' each other.
Old Van's possible confidant, instead of immediately answering, again assumed the pince-nez. "Is that what you call him?" "In general, I think for shortness." "And also" the speaker hesitated "for esteem?" Mitchy laughed out. "For veneration!
Moreover, Khem Singh was old, and anise-seed brandy was scarce, and he had left his silver cooking-pots in Fort Amara with his nice warm bedding, and the gentleman with the gold pince-nez was told by those who had employed him that Khem Singh as a popular leader was not worth the money paid. 'Great is the mercy of these fools of English! said Khem Singh when the situation was put before him.
The solicitor greeted Jimmy, if not warmly, at least sincerely; then sat down and slowly took stock of the returned wanderer. "You look better than I expected from what May told me you had said in your last letter. Yes, you look decidedly better. Still, you have changed a great deal, changed in many ways." He adjusted his gold-rimmed pince-nez, in order to make a closer scrutiny. Jimmy laughed.
All this the new assistant readily gathered as Salter steered him in the direction of the manager's sanctum. Here he found the head of the firm, a tall individual, with grizzled hair covering a fine square head, a hard, clean-shaven face, and a pince-nez which pince-nez he invariably removed when about to make a disagreeable remark.
"You will take your orders from me as before," he said quietly. Behrend adjusted his pince-nez. "No. 13 is perfectly right," he remarked, "he knows his territory, and he should be allowed to work there." "You, too," Mortimer observed in the same calm tone as before, "will take your orders from me!" With a quick gesture the young man dashed his long black hair out of his eyes.
We must get away from here quick!" He was at the bonnet cranking up the car. But the engine, chilled by the cold air, refused to start. As he was straining at the handle, a man dashed suddenly into the yard by the office door. It was Jeekes. The little secretary was a changed man. He still wore his pince-nez. But his mild air had utterly forsaken him.
Now and then the boy's eyes had wandered to the other faces, to the young clergyman's opposite downcast and motionless, with a sort of apprehensive look and a determination not to give way to the three-quarter profiles of the two women, and the gleam of the pince-nez below Lady Laura's frizzed hair.
"I really think you entertain some antagonism against Paul," she declared, "yet he's such a good fellow." The novelist's eyes sparkled through his pince-nez as he replied: "He's very good-looking, I admit, and, no doubt, a perfect cavalier." "You suspect me of flirtations with him, of course," she pouted. "Well, you're not the first man who has chaffed me about that." "No, no," he laughed.
A pair of pince-nez sat crookedly on his nose and two fat volumes under his arm completed the picture. Fisher, who was an observer of some discernment, noticed under the overcoat a creased blue suit, large black boots and a pair of pearl studs. The newcomer glared round at the valet. "Take these!" he ordered peremptorily, pointing to the books under his arm.
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