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"There'll be a small game at the Fountain Club," he said, with a grin which creased his cheeks until his retreating chin almost disappeared under the thick lower lip. Orchil twiddled his long, crinkly, pointed moustache and glanced interrogatively at Harmon; then he yawned, stretched his arms, and rose, pocketing the check, which Ruthven passed to him, with a careless nod of thanks.
A half dozen boxes of matches were passed out to him in the twinkling of an eye, and I shudder to think what might have happened if there had been a hot water faucet handy, they were so eager to please. "Mr. Brewster gone out yet?" demanded this important guest, pocketing all of the matches. He didn't? He was to let me know whether he could play golf with eh? Playing with Logan, eh?
Hoper ascertained, by putting the watch to his ear, that this was the case; then pocketing it, he continued his researches. He likewise secured a note-book, on examining which he found several bank-notes, and some other papers.
"Quite easy in mind as to that," said the colonel, getting up to open a window and let out the smoke of their two cigars. "I was on the point," continued Maxime, "of pocketing both daughter and dot, when there fell from the skies, or rather there rose from the nether regions, a Left candidate, the stone-cutter, as you call him, a man with two names, in short, a natural son "
Once in this gully, between the pocketing nets along the upper edge of its sides, no boar could scramble out, the lower meshes of the pocketing nets were too fine for any hare to squeeze through; no doe, no stag even, could leap such nets at the top of such banks. I could just spy a part of the heaviest net across the gully at the end of the pocket.
"Rather fortunate that I supped in, my dear Newland; now there are £20 saved. By-the-bye, I'm short of cash. You've no objection to let me have this? I shall never pay you, you know." "I do know you never will pay me, Major; nevertheless, as I should have paid it to the landlord had you not interfered, I will lend it to you." "You are a good fellow, Newland," said the Major, pocketing the money.
After some years, when all but one had had judgment given against them, that one was awarded the estate, which he asked his Attorney to have appraised. "There is nothing to appraise," said the Attorney, pocketing his last fee. "Then," said the Successful Claimant, "what good has all this litigation done me?"
If the business does not pay enough to allow this, it has no right to exist; if the owners are pocketing large salaries, or giving dividends to stockholders, this money should be used first for a proper payment of the workers.
He put John from his way, chose a stout knife among the supper things, and with surprising quickness broke into his father's drawer. 'There's nothing easier when you come to try, he observed, pocketing the money. 'I wish you had not done that, said Flora. 'You will never hear the last of it. 'Oh, I don't know, returned the young man; 'the governor is human after all.
"You have," said the man, with brazen frankness, pocketing the half-dollar given him on his tale of a picked pocket and a remittance that had gone wrong. Keith laughed and passed on. Meantime, Keith was making some discoveries. He did not at first call on Norman Wentworth. He had a feeling that it might appear as if he were using his friendship for a commercial purpose.
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