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Updated: May 4, 2025
It would please me a heap if you would' and he handed me half a dozen scarfpins stuck in a flannel rag some of them of great value. "I didn't know what to say at first. I couldn't get mad. I saw he was in dead earnest, and I saw, too, that it was pure gratitude on his part that prompted him to do it. That's a kind of human feeling you don't want to crush out in a man.
Wound round his neck was a snake which had tied itself in front into a knot with two bright yellow spots; the spots were its ears, and its eyes shone like diamonds. "Show auntie your scarfpins, little pet," said the pilot, gently scratching its head, and the snake opened its mouth and disclosed two sharp, pointed teeth right in the middle of it.
"There's my gold watch and chain, worth fifty guineas, a gold cigarette-case studded with brilliants, five diamond rings, three diamond scarfpins, about five hundred pounds in English and American bank-notes a whole heap of things are missin', but I'm not goin' ter worry about 'em now. The list can wait." "But you want t' catch an' punish the thief, don't you?" urged Isa.
The officer obeyed, while the others crowded around the Chief. The stolen things had been tossed carelessly into the box, a few still wrapped in squares of tissue paper but the most rattling together indiscriminately. There were watches and scarfpins and brooches and studs and watch charms and several bracelets and one platinum and gold chain.
Lucky Lefthindfoot and I live in Lettuceville, corner of Carrot and Lettuce streets," and then he tried to take off his hat, but he couldn't, for it was tied down tight, you remember, with his blue polka-dot handkerchief. And after that the mermaid asked them to visit her coral island, where she and her sisters sold coral beads and scarfpins.
"I've lovely gifts for my dearest friends I've something for each of you, I've coral beads for the girls so fair, I've scarfpins, dear boys, for you. And always we will remember this, That a gift has a value true, But better far, than the finest gift Is the love that we give to you." "Oh, Sprite, dear Sprite!" they cried, as they thronged around her to accept the beautiful coral.
""Doc," he began, 'I was thinking to-night of what you done for me and how you did it, and how decent you've been about it always, and I thought maybe you wouldn't feel offended if I brought you this bunch of scarfpins to take your pick from' and he unwrapped the bundle. 'There's a pearl one that might please you and here's another that sparkles take your pick, "Doc."
I held the cab door for him. He spoke exactly as if he had been a collector who had been roaming the world for curios. 'Take 'em both, "Doc" or all of 'em I mean it. "I laid the bundle on the table and said: 'Well, that's very kind of you and I don't want you to think I don't appreciate it but you see I don't wear scarfpins, and if I did I don't think I ought to take these.
His name was called several times and he received the very things he did not want; sleeve buttons, scarfpins, cologne, and paper. He says, "thank you," each time more faintly, whilst his mother's eyes twinkle. At last Santa Claus tried to lift a big bundle; he puffed and panted and called Pete to help him.
At nineteen he had won and lost the small fortune of thirty-three hundred dollars at a third-class gambling resort where he came in time to be croupier. He dressed flashily, wore soft collars, was constantly swapping sporty scarfpins for sportier ones, and was inevitably the center, seldom part, of a group.
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