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Updated: June 13, 2025
Let me tell you I can pull a good oar still. If only I had had my flannels! You seem to think I'm fit for nothing." Colonel Faversham astonished Carrissima by rising from his chair and taking off his coat. Removing the links from his shirt-cuff, he solemnly turned back the sleeve, then clenching his fist, slowly raised his forearm, looking the while so red in the face that she grew quite alarmed.
And then, with sudden passion: "Bertie, what does a little scorch like that matter when you when you " She broke off, fighting with herself, and pointed a shaking finger at his wrist. It had been blistered by the flame, and his shirt-cuff was charred; but the injury was slight, remarkably so in consideration of the utter recklessness he had displayed.
In one corner a belated critic endeavoured to scratch hasty impressions on his shirt-cuff or the margin of a little square catalogue; in another an interested dealer used his best endeavours to rivet a patron's attention on the merits of his speculative purchase.
"That magnificent place on the Grand Canal? Very much." "Meet me there to-morrow afternoon," said Kitty. "Four o'clock." "Delighted!" said Lord Magellan, making a note on his shirt-cuff. "And who lives there?" "My mother," said Kitty, abruptly, and walked away. Ashe followed her in discomfort.
Then he continued in a lighter key: "However, I don't refuse; you take me too literally. It was the last bitter cry of my spleen. I have put myself in Mosenthal's hands; I've sold him two pictures." "In that case, then, why am I not to be glad?" "Oh, it's success!" said Oswyn. He glanced contemptuously at his frayed shirt-cuff, with the broad stains of paint upon it.
We are too much afraid of letting ourselves go and of giving ourselves away. We are heavy-handed and heavy-minded. 'If we can't produce the monuments, we can produce the men who deserve them, said Maude, and Frank wrote the aphorism down upon his shirt-cuff. 'We are too severe both in sculpture and architecture, said he.
They even smiled, and, in their conversation, which assumed a lighter tone, I caught and recorded in pencil on my shirt-cuff, for future explanation, words which sounded like aiskistos aneer, farmakos, catharma, and Thargeelyah. Finally the aged priest hobbled back into his temple, and the chief, beckoning me to follow, passed within the courtyard of his house.
It was swift indeed, almost immediate, in its effect perfectly painless, and when taken in the form of a gelatine capsule, the mode recommended by Sir Mathew, not by any means unpalatable. He accordingly made a note, upon his shirt-cuff, of the amount necessary for a fatal dose, put the books back in their places, and strolled up St. James's Street, to Pestle and Humbey's, the great chemists. Mr.
I saw my uncle pointing to the houses in Park Lane and showing a frayed shirt-cuff as he did so. I heard my aunt: "I'm to ride in my carriage then. So he old says." My feelings towards my uncle were extraordinarily mixed.
The words had hardly left his lips when there came the sound of a chair being quickly pushed back, and Oliver stood beside Margaret. His eyes were flashing; his right shirt-cuff was rolled back, the bit of charcoal still between his fingers. Every muscle of his body was tense with anger. Margaret's quick instinct took in the situation at a glance. She saw Oliver's wrath and she knew its cause.
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