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Pike's shirt-sleeved, butternut-trousers personality and he seemed but the flowering of Buck Peavey's store-clothes ambitions. The accord of it all struck Miss Wingate so forcibly that unconsciously she gave voice to the feeling. "How at home you are in all this this?" she paused and raised her eyes to his with a hint of helplessness to express herself within them.
Chance had it that the cover was off of the little used billiard table and that two men, in shirt-sleeved comfort, were playing. Both men he knew. They were Charley Bedloe and his brother, the Kid. The Bedloe boys were intent upon their game, the Kid laughing softly at a miscue Charley had made.
Shirt-sleeved householders, leaning against their door-posts smoking, exchanged ideas across the narrow space paved with cobble-stones which separated their small and ancient houses, while the matrons, more gregariously inclined, bunched in little groups and discussed subjects which in higher circles would have inundated the land with libel actions.
Richly clad pages and maids of honor, all white and gold and rouge, mingled with shirt-sleeved carpenters and scene-shifters in a hysterical rabble; chorus-masters, footmen in livery, loungers in evening dress, girls in picture hats, members of the orchestra with instruments under their arms, and even children, added variety to the throng.
A tall, broad-shouldered figure broke through the circle. "What's the trouble here?" It was Spurling's voice. His glance took in the situation. "That'll be about all," he said. "Come away, Whittington!" A bullet-headed, shirt-sleeved man bristled up defiantly. It was Jabe's father. "Guess we'll let 'em fight it out," he observed. His boy was winning. "No," said Jim. "It's gone far enough."
As soon as he had left my ship I called Falk on board by signal the tug still lying at the anchorage. He took the news with calm gravity, as though he had all along expected the stars to fight for him in their courses. I saw them once more together, and only once on the quarter-deck of the Diana. Hermann sat smoking with a shirt-sleeved elbow hooked over the back of his chair. Mrs.
She had heard traveling-men at Pemberton's and at Truax & Fein's complain of sour coffee and lumpy beds in the hotels of the smaller towns; of knives and forks that had to be wiped on the napkins before using; of shirt-sleeved proprietors who loafed within reach of the cuspidors while their wives tried to get the work done.
"Stop him!" cried the shirt-sleeved man. "He's giving it away on the wire!" But Donohue had signed his name and was putting on his coat. "You're welcome to what you can find," he said, scowling at the interloper. "If you kill anybody now, it'll be your own fault." "Arrest that man!" said Hawk to his policemen; but Kent interposed. "If you do, the force will be two men shy to-morrow.
In every caricature of Uncle Sam or Brother Jonathan we can detect the lineaments of the American frontiersman. James Russell Lowell, gentleman and scholar that he was, describes a type of man unknown to the Old World: "This brown-fisted rough, this shirt-sleeved Cid, This backwoods Charlemagne of Empires new.
A line of men, shirt-sleeved like himself and carrying spades in their hands, moved out past him. An officer led them, and another with Sapper Duffy's section officer brought up the rear, and passed along the word to halt when he reached Daffy. 'Here's the outside man of my lot, he said, 'so you'll join on beyond him. You've just come in, I hear, so I suppose your men are fresh?
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