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"I think a drive in the moonlight with a 'brute of a saint' in shirt-sleeves, with arms like those, might be interesting," mused the guest, indicating invisible patterns on the porch with the toe of a white slipper. "He would probably talk cars and engines every mile in the most matter-of-fact way," Winifred Chester assured her.
The whole thing was nice enough to look back upon afterwards like something gone through with, and not to happen again for a little while. Pelle stood at the stable door into the yard with a consequential air, with bristling hair and clean shirt-sleeves, his hands buried in his trouser pockets.
"'Come along, I shouted to him. "We charged, the seven of us, up to the chart-room. All was over. There stood the old man with his sea-boots still drawn up to the hips and in shirt-sleeves got warm thinking it out, I suppose. Bun Hin's dandy clerk at his elbow, as dirty as a sweep, was still green in the face. I could see directly I was in for something.
Much did I know about sighting or firing them! However, I knew enough to keep my place. I remember tying up a man's arm with my own shirt-sleeves, by way of showing I was not frightened, as in truth I was. And I remember going down to the cockpit with a poor wretch who was awfully burned with powder, and the sight there was so much worse than it was at my gun that I was glad to get back again.
"Nay, I predict," I replied calmly. And I went down the steps and out of the gate, he looking after me. Before I had turned the corner of Freshwater Lane, he was in the seat, and fanning himself with his hat. I went straight to Mr. Swain's chambers in the Circle, where I found the good barrister and Captain Daniel in their shirt-sleeves, seated between the windows in the back room. Mr.
Rough, bearded men, in Mexican sombreros and coarse attire many in shirt-sleeves and with their pantaloons tucked in their boots watched the new arrivals with interest. "You needn't feel ashamed of your clothes, Joe," said Folsom, with a smile. "You are better dressed than the majority of those we see." Joe looked puzzled. "They don't look as if they had made their fortunes," he said.
We had, of course, frequently seen a couple of soldiers trudging along with sloped muskets, and that cruel glitter of steel which no one of us could look upon quite unmoved; but in such cases, the deserter walking between them in his shirt-sleeves, his pinioned hands covered from public gaze by the loose folds of his great-coat, explained everything.
Yet here beside them was the motion-picture camera, clicking steadily away and operated by a man in his shirt-sleeves who watched the scene with sharp eyes, now frowning and now nodding approval.
The general, who was in his shirt-sleeves and collarless, rose, and putting his hands behind him, backed to the radiator to warm them. "But, father father," exclaimed the boy, "how can I? What I learned was in confidence. How can I?" The father saw the anguish in his son's face, and did not reply at once. "Is it crooked, Neal?"
Her heart beat fast as she ascended the narrow stone steps of Del Ferice's lodging, and stopped upon the landing before the small green door, whereon she read his name. She pulled the bell, and Temistocle appeared in his shirt-sleeves. "Does Count Del Ferice live here?" asked Donna Tullia, peering over the man's shoulder into the dark and narrow passage within.
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