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Updated: June 3, 2025
Take this ring and give it to her, and my scarf-pin, which in her sweet, childish fancy she used so to admire. Tell her that I died I have told her in my letter but repeat it to her, with my heart full, O so full! of love for her." There was now a rude bustling at the door; the rusty key was plied, and with a harsh scream the bolt flew back.
For that Señor De Gex sent me a letter of thanks, and the scarf-pin which you see I wear." The pin he indicated consisted of a single black pearl with the base surrounded by diamonds, an expensive piece of jewellery.
The turn-down Collar was four inches high, and he wore a navy-blue Cravat with a copper Butterfly for a Scarf-Pin. Furthermore, he had a Suit of Clothes that was intended for a gentle Brakeman. On his Lapel he had a Button Photograph of the Girl who worked in the Millinery Store. "Are you made up for a Masquerade or is this the regular Costume?" asked his Father.
"Now, a pin and a watch were missed while Ripley was not attending school." "I know it, sir," Dick nodded. "As to those two articles I cannot offer even the ghost of an explanation." "I don't like to accuse you of taking Ripley's scarf-pin, nor do I like to suspect him of putting up such a contemptible trick," explained Dr. Thornton, thoughtfully.
Both men spoke in the dead, restrained tones that go with their callings. "What's her name?" "Chester, I think. Why? Look good to you, Kid?" Although the other neither spoke nor made sign, the bartender construed his silence as acquiescence and continued, with a conscious glance at his own reflection while he adjusted his diamond scarf-pin: "Well, she can have ME! I've got it fixed to meet her."
"And the ace how many times did it win?" inquired Trinidad. "Four times," was the case-keeper's answer. All this time a full-blooded Indian with long, blue-black hair, very thick and oily, had been watching the game with excited eyes. His dress was part Indian and part American, and he wore all kinds of imitation jewelry including a huge scarf-pin which flashed from his vivid red tie.
His plaid cap was tilted carelessly down toward his right ear, the tilt being balanced by the upward cock of his cigar toward his left ear. The light-colored topcoat with the soiled collar was open sufficiently at the throat to show its wearer's chins and a tasty section of tie and cameo scarf-pin below them. And from the corner of Mr.
He 'ad got on a gold watch-chain as thick as a rope, and a scarf-pin the size of a large walnut, and he had 'ad a few words with the barmaid on 'is own account. He seemed to take a fancy to Rupert from the fust, and in a few minutes he 'ad given 'im a big cigar out of a sealskin case and ordered 'im a glass of sherry wine.
Then he drove to a hatter's and a shoe house. His next errand was at Tiffany's, where he selected silver mounted brushes and a scarf-pin. He would not wait to have his silver marked, he said. Lastly, he stopped at a trunk shop on Broadway, and had his purchases packed into various travelling bags.
The flashy gentleman with the diamond scarf-pin and the dirty cuffs, who made a tower out of his dirty dishes and then sucked his teeth! O God! And the loathsome food! For seven years I have had my nose stamped into this mud, and all in vain; I can still starve, but I can not eat what is not clean.
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