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My father, as I have said, was quite a consequential individual, his very white, and very stiff, and very shining shirt-front insinuated as much; his satiny black broadcloth confirmed it, and even the little silk guard, that rested consciously upon his immaculate linen, sustained the presumption.
It was but too plain that Albert was not convinced. "A little black cat with white shirt-front," babbled George perseveringly. "She's usually either here or there, or or somewhere. Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!" The cupid's bow of Albert's mouth parted. He uttered one word. "Swank!" There was a tense silence. What Albert was thinking one cannot say. The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts.
Oswald Morfey said in that simple, half-lisping tone and with that wide-open child-like glance that characterised most of his remarks: "A very prosperous little affair here!" Having said this, he let his eyeglass fall into the full silkiness of his shirt-front, and turned and smiled very amicably and agreeably on Mr.
He put it carefully into his side-pocket, and once more repeating 'In an hour! made towards the door; but turning sharply back, ran up to Sanin, seized his hand, and pressing it to his shirt-front, cried, with his eyes to the ceiling: 'Noble youth! Great heart! Sanin looked after him ... took up the newspaper and tried to read. But his eyes wandered in vain over the lines: he understood nothing.
He was now a haughty man of no particular age, fine majestic nose, a lordly bearing, displaying a large shirt-front of immaculate linen crackling beneath the continual effort of the chest to throw itself forward, and bulging itself out each time with a noise like that made by a white turkey when it struts in anger, or by a peacock when he spreads his tail. His name of Monpavon suited him well.
"Cecilia Osborne," said I. "What did you think of her, Elspie?" The iron went up and down the Vicar's shirt-front, and I saw a curious gathering together of old Elspie's lips still she did not speak. At last Sophy said, "Couldn't you make up your mind about her, Elspie?" "I had nae mickle fash about that, Mrs Sophy," said Elspeth, setting down her iron on the stand with something like a bang.
Men and women, inclined to be hilarious, thronged the pavements under the strong lights. Birds of prey, male and female, prowled alertly. A jingling hansom swung from Piccadilly Circus into the Quadrant. Its occupants were a short, Jewish-looking man with a big diamond in his shirt-front, and a woman who leaned forward more prominently than her companion.
She said off-hand: "C'est un chat du mois de juin." She seems to know what month well-behaved cats ought to be born. So far as I know, they might be born in any old month. He was like a little tiger, with a white face and shirt-front, white paws and lovely green eyes.
He must go home and study Paley or perhaps Butler's Analogy he owed the church something, and ought to be able to strike a blow for her. Or would not Leighton be better? Or a more modern writer say Neander, or Coleridge, or perhaps Dr. Liddon? There were thousands able to fit him out for the silencing of such foolish men as this Bascombe of the shirt-front!
He looked at the weeping boy, then at the woman who stood there holding the boy's hand in hers. "But that will be for to-morrow," he muttered, fingering his shirt-front and looking down. "That will be for to-morrow." As he went out he added: "Signora, do not remain in your wet clothes." "I oh, thank you. They do not matter." She did not follow him into the next room.
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