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Jack, having got himself out of his wraps, and run his bristles backwards with a pocket-comb, was ready for presentation. 'What name shall I enounce? asked Mr. Spigot, fearful of committing himself before the ladies. 'MISTER SPRAGGON, to be sure, exclaimed Jack, thinking, because he knew who he was, that everybody else ought to know too. Spigot then led the way to the music-room.
Haldean was much more remarkable. Rising from her chair, she leaned on the table and stared at Thorndyke with an expression of awe even of terror; and as he finished she sank back into her chair, with her hands clasped, and turned to Mrs. Hanshaw. "Jane!" she gasped, "it is Percy my brother-in-law! He has described him exactly, even to his stick and his pocket-comb.
You find the shawl, and hand it out, and by this time another one has come back and thinks she will have hers too, and they take Mary's on chance, and Mary does not want it, so they bring it back and have a pocket-comb instead. It is about twenty minutes before they get off again, and, at the next corner, they see a cow, and you have to leave the boat to chivy the cow out of their way.
"You must pay a pin apiece, or you can't see the show," said Stuffy, who stood by the wheelbarrow in which sat the band, consisting of a pocket-comb blown upon by Ned, and a toy drum beaten spasmodically by Rob. "He's company, so I'll pay for both," said Nat, handsomely, as he stuck two crooked pins in the dried mushroom which served as money-box.
The sheriff removed the handcuffs, dived into his own pocket, brought out a pocket-comb and glass, and handed them to the thief; then he placed the lantern in front of him, and said: "Fix yourself up a little. Your hat's a miz'able one I'll swap with you. You've got to make up some cock-and-bull story now, for the old man'll want to know everything.
Substituting it for the gold ring, he wore it to school that afternoon; and a little negotiation, after school was dismissed, settled the business the coveted dog-collar was his! Indeed, so craftily did he conduct the bargain, that he made the other boy throw in a pretty ivory pocket-comb to boot!
His days were passed chiefly in attendance upon Lady Fareham singing and playing, fetching and carrying combing her favourite spaniel with the same ivory pocket-comb that arranged his own waterfall curls; or reading a French romance to her, or teaching her the newest game of cards, or the last dancing-step imported from Fontainebleau or St.
He wore a magnificent gold watch and chain, and jewelled rings flashed from his white fingers as he, in absent moments, daintily passed a small pocket-comb through the meshes of his lustrous brown side-whiskers. Little Bean knew that he did something on a board in Chicago; that he "operated" on the Board of Trade was the accustomed phrasing.
By a similar contrivance, the Captain converted the little dressing-table into a species of altar, on which he set forth two silver teaspoons, a flower-pot, a telescope, his celebrated watch, a pocket-comb, and a song-book, as a small collection of rarities, that made a choice appearance.
Unfortunately, as it was the end of the half, none of them had any store of pocket-money remaining; so one proposed offering him a penknife, and another a pocket-comb, and a third an inkstand; indeed, there was no end of the number of small gifts which Monsieur Malin had pressed upon him. He was in a dilemma about the matter.
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