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Updated: June 6, 2025
I caught her looking at me suspiciously, once or twice, over her gold-bowed reading-glasses. Once she inquired if I was ill, or felt feverish. My cheeks did burn. "Oh, no," I said, "but I guess I'll go to bed. It's almost midnight." Esther took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes. "One gets tired, sometimes, climbing," she observed. I waited.
He drew out and adjusted his round tortoise-shell-rimmed reading-glasses and read it. "That's a miraculously new Doggie," said he. Peggy clutched the edges of his coat. "I've never heard you call him that before." "It has never been worth while," said the Dean. At the Savoy, during the first stupefaction of his misery, Doggie had not noticed particularly the prevalence of khaki.
I wrote him all myself!" Never before had it fallen to my lot to play father confessor to a lady in love difficulties, but the editorial mind is equal to any emergency, so I let my oars slide and adjusted my reading-glasses to peruse Mary's precious epistle. When I had read on to the signature. "Your devoted lover 'Tom," Mary's face was radiant. "Aint he smart?
Langhope's stick slipped to the floor with the sudden displacement of his whole lounging person, and Mr. Tredegar, removing his tortoise-shell reading-glasses, put them hastily into their case, as though to declare for instant departure. "My dear Maria " Mr. Langhope gasped, while she rose and restored his stick.
Taking up a pen and drawing a sheet of paper towards him, he said with what command of his voice he could: 'What am I to write? The old lady took from her basket a folded sheet of notepaper, and, putting on her reading-glasses, said as she smoothed it out: 'I think it would be well to say something like this "I, Leonard Everard, of Brindehow, in the Parish of Normanstand, in the County of Norcester, hereby acknowledge the receipt from Miss Laetitia Rowly of nine hundred pounds sterling lent to me in accordance with my request, the same being to clear me of a pressing debt due by me.
From the Exchange I took a coach, and went to Turlington, the great spectacle-maker, for advice, who dissuades me from using old spectacles, but rather young ones, and do tell me that nothing can wrong my eyes more than for me to use reading-glasses, which do magnify much.
How can he have heard about what's happened? He couldn't know. It's it's it isn't possible!" "He doesn't know. It has nothing to do with that." "But . . ." Uncle Chris stooped to where the note lay. "May I . . . ?" "Yes, you can read it if you like." Uncle Chris produced a pair of reading-glasses, and glared through them at the sheet of paper as though it were some loathsome insect. "The hound!
I want you to come and meet me at Victoria at one o'clock and we shall lunch together before I go on to my hotel. My chief business is to see friend Medhurst about my eyes. I fear my present reading-glasses no longer suit me. By the way, I've some splendid ideas for you to work out. It's quite clear to me now from whom you inherited your genius. Mind you are in time. Your dad, Archibald D.
So the Liberry Teacher braced herself severely, and put on her reading-glasses with a view to looking older and more firm. "Liberry Teacher," it might be well to explain, was not her official title. Her description on the pay-roll ran "Assistant for the Children's Department, Greenway Branch, City Public Library." Grown-up people, when she happened to run across them, called her Miss Braithwaite.
She had a sense of fitness; and such a name belonged back in an old New England parsonage garden full of pink roses and nice green caterpillars and girl-dreams, and the days before she was eighteen: not in a smutty city library, attached to a twenty-five-year-old young woman with reading-glasses and fine discipline and a woolen shirt-waist!
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