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There is not the slightest doubt," he added, looking belligerently over the top of his pince nez at Seaman, who was seated at the opposite side of the table, "that before long we shall find ourselves and in a shocking state of unpreparedness, mind you at war with Germany." Lady Maddeley, the wife of the Lord Lieutenant, who sat at his side, seemed a little startled.
Even if Angers has never been one of the most important cities of France, it seems always to have been a place of moderate consequence, as it still is. There are a few good private houses dating several centuries back, the most pretentious of these being the Hôtel de Pincé, a charming Renaissance building, standing in the heart of the town and now used as a museum of antiquities and objets d'art.
He arranged his pince nez, and taking the catalogue, applied himself to it. G. Selden's soul warmed within him. To be listened to like this. To be treated as a gentleman by a gentleman by "a fine old swell like this Hully gee!" "This isn't what I'm used to," he said with genuine enjoyment. "It doesn't matter, your not being ready to buy now.
"Now give it to the rest of 'em, Tommy!" chuckled the Major. And the song continued: "And along wid 'Hank' is Mick Maharr, And Barney Pince, at 'The Shamrock' bar There's Barney Pinch, wid his heart so true; And the Andrews Brothers they'll go too." "Hold on, Tommy!" chipped in one of the Andrews; "you must give 'the Andrews Brothers' a better advertisement than that!
Portheris fixed her pince nez upon him in suspicious inquiry. "I can even swallow the whale now," he faltered, "like Jonah." After two days of the most humid civility Mrs. Portheris had brought momma round.
"She's no right then!" exclaimed the old woman angrily; "she'll get no luck to be grudging her pince that way. 'Tis hard work anny priest would have to kape the likes of hersilf from being haythens altogether." There was a nine per cent. annual dividend declared at the directors' meeting the next week, with considerable applause from the board and sincere congratulations to the agent.
My tobacconist was in his house-boat on the Thames. I met only one or two acquaintances, who seemed so sorry for themselves that their depression was only heightened by recognizing me. The streets were given over to a strangely clad crowd of pilgrims from other lands, American women with short coats, pince nez, and Baedekers, dragging along their mankind in neat suits and outrageous hats.
"She gets them from Helene," said a long thin young man with a rather good-looking narrow face and dark eyes, peering through pince nez, "But I couldn't." In places where entertainment as a means of existence proceed so to speak, fast and furiously, questions of taste are not dwelt upon at leisure.
And think you that he would not scorn to live when honor is gone I Go' he added more gently, as he saw the sorrow that dimmed her eye 'go, and tell Jyanough to meet me at the Sachem's lodge. Terah may yet be saved this victim comes at s happy moment, and surely Mahneto demands his life as at offering for that of the venerable Pince. Oriana shuddered at what she saw to be her father's meaning.
We leaned over the barrier and watched the luggage being handed out of the vans and thrown on to the low wooden platforms. By my side a dark young man, with sallow features and pince nez, was apparently passing his time in the same manner. My companion, who was restless all the time, glanced at him frequently, or I should scarcely have noticed his existence.
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