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There was a certain strained look in the Boston woman's face and a suspicious redness near the bridge of her little nose. As she had not yet acquired the Boston habit of wearing glasses, whether she needed them or not, the irritation could hardly be attributed to tight pince nez.
But a tear came from his eye, and he blew his nose vigorously on a large white silk handkerchief, and began to polish his pince nez. Then he turned, and they all bundled out of the room. The doctor took his departure. Mrs. Sisson went almost immediately upstairs, and Millicent shortly crept after her.
His own services to the firm were of such a nature that he had no misgiving whatever as to his employer's desire for a private interview. "It is about the Marston Rise estate," Mr. Dowling explained, arranging his pince nez. "I believe that the time is coming when some sort of overtures should be made. You know what has been in my mind for a very considerable time." Tavernake nodded.
Terah, like all others of his exalted rank, had attained to the honor of being a Pince by serving a hard apprenticeship to suffering and privation in his early youth.
The light was dusky yellow from the smelter smoke; and loafers round the transcontinental railroad station across the street chose the shady side of the building, where they sat swinging their legs from the platform and aiming tobacco juice with regularity and precision in the exact centre of the gray dusty road. The Senator wore a pair of pince nez glasses.
It is a great pity, for we have several such treatises, and how interesting an account of indoor games and riddles might have been we may guess from a passage in the Ménagier's version of the story of Lucrece, when he describes the Roman ladies 'some gossiping, others playing at bric, others at qui féry, others at pince merille, others at cards or other games of pleasure with their neighbours; others, who had supped together, were singing songs and telling fables and stories and wagers; others were in the street with their neighbours, playing at blind man's buff or at bric and at several other games of the kind. In those days, before the invention of printing had made books plentiful, medieval ladies were largely dependent for amusement upon telling and listening to stories, asking riddles, and playing games, which we have long ago banished to the nursery; and a plentiful repertoire of such amusements was very desirable in a hostess.
"Sleepin'! Oh, no," replied Jemmy; "I'd give the wide world for one wink of asy sleep." "Well, aroon, here's fifteen pince for you, that we skham Will I tell him how we cot it?" "No, don't," replied his neighbors; "the boy's given to devotion, and maybe might scruple to take it." "Here's fifteen pince, avourneen, on the shovel, that we're givin' you for God's sake.
"Oh, Miss Robin, you naughty child!" cried Andrews, with pathos. "Your poor Andrews that takes such care of you!" "Horrid little thing!" Feather pettishly exclaimed. "Take her upstairs, Andrews. She shall not come down again." Harrowby, settling his pince nez a little excitedly in the spurred novelty of his interest, murmured, "If she doesn't want to go, she will begin to shriek.
He was standing not far from the door with a businesslike-looking envelop in one hand and a pince- nez in the other, with which Tembarom saw he was rather fretfully tapping the envelop as he looked about him. He was plainly taking in the characteristics of the room, and was not leniently disposed toward them.
Pat Finnerty 0 3 4 "I'm not sure if it is 8s. 4d. or 3s. 4d., for the figure is blotted but I believe it is 8s. 4d." "It was three and four pince I gave your reverence," said Pat from the crowd. "Well, Pat, as I said eight and four pence you must not let me go back o' my word, so bring me five shillings next week." "Sure you wouldn't have me pay for a blot, sir?"
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