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"Quite happy I'm sure," said the earl. "He's prompt, isn't he?" "Yes," said Lady Nora, "he's always prompt. He doesn't lose shirt-studs, and he never dawdles." "Ah!" said the earl. "Here he comes!" exclaimed Lady Nora, and she began to wave her handkerchief. The earl turned and saw, coming from the corner by the clock-tower, a man.
Moreover, just as I had thought that it was perhaps worth while to run the risk of another illness one cannot see the Madness of Count Orlando every day there came into the room a peddler laden with some fifty volumes of fiction and a fine assortment of combs and shirt-studs. The books tempted me; I looked them through.
"They do not curse," he says, "at door-handles, and shirt-studs, and such other trifles as will draw down the meagre discharge of an Occidental, but when they do begin "I hired a promising-looking man at Calcutta, and after a month or so refused to pay his wages.
The tobacco-jar, the cigarette-holder, the three papers of shirt-studs, which were to have been the prizes of the tombola had the tombola come off, were made into a bundle with the music; the guitar was stowed into the fat guitar-case; and Elvira having thrown a thin shawl about her neck and shoulders, the pair issued from the café and set off for the Black Head.
The only thing to do is to get there ahead of them. It will be a race for the sunken treasure, and we must get there first." "What do you propose doing, captain?" asked Mr. Damon. "Bless my shirt-studs, but can't we pull their ship up on the island and leave it there?" "I'm afraid such high-handed proceedings would hardly answer," replied Mr. Swift.
So long as a man does no harm to himself or to anyone else, I for one see no objection to his supping like a Roman Emperor, on pheasants' tongues, or making shirt-studs of Koh-i-noors. "It is charity," says Mr. Greg, hurling at the system of great establishments his last and bitterest anathema "It is charity, and charity of the bastard sort charity disguised as ostentation.
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