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I have known a judge shed tears about it, which he is not bound to do unless he has the black cap on that always set him going like an onion. Why, I've seen even an attorney use his pocket-handkerchief because of a pretty face in trouble; but then she was his client, to be sure. Talking of attorneys, you'll have Weasel, of course?" Richard nodded an affirmative. "Quite right.
Her father had ceased his efforts; he was rubbing his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief, but behind him, with rigid arms outstretched, his glowing eyes fastened on her face, stood Jacob Meyer. By an effort she sprang to her feet, shaking her head as a dog does. "Have done with this nonsense," she said. "It tires me," and snatching one of the lamps she ran swiftly down the place.
Even the king jumped out of bed, tied up his crown in his pocket-handkerchief, and ran for his life in his dressing-gown, while two lords in waiting, or gentlemen of the bedchamber, rushed after him with the royal mantle of ermine, and the scepter and golden ball.
I guessed he must have weighed eleven score, he had a half-ruddy, half-tallowy face, brown hair, and rather thin whiskers. He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty-white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face.
"Yes. Frederica, your hand with the pocket-handkerchief, it is not quite the thing." "Why not?" "You hold it like a New York lady." "How should I hold it?" "Like a French queen, whose Austrian fingers may hold anything any way." This was Hamilton's dictum. "But how do I hold it?" "You have picked it up in the middle, and show all the flower work in the corners."
The latter raised her head gently and wiped away the tears with her lace pocket-handkerchief. "Come, my child! all this deluge means nothing. You must make up your mind. I can understand your hiding anything from your husband, but not from me! What is your lover's name?" This question so simply put, threw a faint light on Jeanne's troubled brain. She saw the danger she was running.
Acton wrote the telegram, and then it appeared that the boat had been picked up empty, with Armine's pocket-handkerchief full of shells in it, and the boys had been given up for lost, it having been concluded that, if they had been seen, the boat also would have been taken in tow, and not cast loose to tell the tale.
Jeekes took his pince-nez from his nose, gave the glasses a hasty rub with his pocket-handkerchief, and replaced them. He slanted a long narrow look at the young man. Then, "What letter do you mean?" he asked composedly. "A letter which lay on H.P.'s desk in the library at Harkings when they found the body ..." "There was a letter there then ...?" "Haven't you got it?" Jeekes shook his head.
There is a man in our church who is apt to be taken with one of these fits just as the contribution box comes to him, and cannot seem to get his breath again till he hears the pennies rattling in the box behind him. Cough by all means, but put on the brakes when you come to the down grade, or send the racket through at least one fold of your pocket-handkerchief.
"Well, really," said the other, looking up at the cloudless blue sky, and wiping his face with a gaudy red silk pocket-handkerchief, "it is rather hot, you know, and " Mrs. Hableton did not give him time to finish, but walking to the gate, opened it with a jerk.
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