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"Tell me about this fellow King. Every one seems very keen about him." Honor leaned back and took a serge-clad knee between two tanned hands. "Well, I don't know how to begin! He's well, he's just Jimsy King, that's all! But it's more than any other boy in the world." "You're great friends, aren't you?" "Jimsy and I? I should say we are!
Unable to endure the suspense, she straightened her bowed shoulders and turned in convulsive appeal to where she had glimpsed the flail-like rise and fall of Sister Agnetia's serge-clad arm. There was no one there! The bare, cell-like chamber was empty, save for herself.
I get nothing, then?" The serge-clad back was disappearing through the gates into the welter of sunlight without; Raleigh gathered up his feet and sprinted along the tree shaded path. He was going to understand this business. He picked up the view of the serge-clad back again, walking towards the bridge, hastened after it and slowed down to its own pace when he was still some ten yards behind.
Jack-booted, buff-coated troopers; scarlet militiamen; brown, stern-faced Tauntonians; serge-clad pikemen; wild, ragged miners; smockfrocked yokels; reckless, weather-tanned seamen; gaunt cragsmen from the northern coast all pushed and jostled each other in a thick, many-coloured crowd.
A quarter of an hour later he was in the hall-way of Sally's apartment house, gazing with ill-concealed disgust at the serge-clad back of his cousin Mr. Carmyle, who was engaged in conversation with a gentleman in overalls.
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