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Updated: July 10, 2025
'There! that's to pay your expenses to Russia and back. I hope you'll find your pupils obedient. To his surprise, and rather to his discomfiture, Cynthia threw her arms round his neck and kissed him. 'You are the kindest person I know, said she; 'and I don't know how to thank you in words. 'If you tumble my shirt-collars again in that way, I'll charge you for the washing.
Coggs and Coker welcomed him with open arms as an equal, while Siggers, a short, slight, sharp-featured boy, with a very fashionable hat and shirt-collars, and a horse-shoe pin, drawled, "How are you, old boy?" with the languor of a confirmed man about town.
They hung around each other, loth yet desirous to part; they followed each other through the three rooms, buttoning their braces and shirt-collars. He had to fetch ink or cigarettes. But he was always detained, if not by friends, by the beauty of the gardens or the river.
On a nearer approach, one discovered in the said pumpkin a pair of red, ferrety eyes, an excrescence for a nose, and a hole into which his whistle fitted for a mouth, and on either side of it, on a Sunday morning, two very high shirt-collars, they towards the end of the week gaining a darker hue and an outward curve.
He remembered it as the emblem of low-down show business, and associated it with end-men and blackened faces and grotesque shirt-collars. "It's all the rage," Mela shouted, in answer for all. "Everybody plays it. Mr. Beaton borrowed this from a lady friend of his." "Humph! Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos. "A banjo would have been cheaper."
He walked outside, that his meditation might be undisturbed, but in an instant he was back, crying: "Lady comin'!" Shirt-sleeves and trowsers-legs were hurriedly rolled down, shirt-collars were buttoned, hats were dusted, and then each man went leisurely out, with the air of having merely happened to leave the saloon an air which imposed upon no disinterested observer.
When he sang, he did not forget them; and the poor fools who turned down their shirt-collars, and imitated his songs, and thought they were inspired by his winged genius, had under them only a pair of halting, clubbed feet. There is a class of unfortunate men and women in the world to whom the boy and the bard have introduced us.
"Master's just stepped out, down the street," said James. "Why don't you answer my question, sir?" said Moulder, becoming redder and still more red about his shirt-collars. "The gent said as how he was 'mercial," said the poor man. "Was I to go to contradict a gent and tell him he wasn't when he said as how he was?" "If you please," said Mr.
Some of the old men who come from inland are particularly noticeable, forming vivid pictures and artistic groups, with their long, snowy hair flowing freely about face and neck in patriarchal fashion. They wear red worsted caps, open shirt-collars, and knee-breeches, together with jackets and vests decked by a profusion of silver buttons.
Greatly delighted to have encountered so near a witness and so minute a chronicler of the disasters of the town, I invited the professor to accompany me in exploring it, my interest having vastly increased during his recital; but he pleaded business, and, shaking both my hands and smiling upon me out of a sort of moulding formed around his face by his shirt-collars, dismissed me.
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