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Updated: June 21, 2025
There emerged, first a gaunt woman, with her sleeves rolled up, in a faded pink gown, and little boots on her stockingless feet. After her came a tattered man in a red shirt and very full trousers, like a petticoat, and with overshoes. The man caught the woman at the bottom of the steps. "You shall not escape," he said laughing.
Will you do it better, Comtesse?" I bound the handkerchief as neatly as I could, and, for some unexplained reason, as once before at Harley, my heart beat in my throat. I could feel his eyes watching me, although my head was bent. I did not look up until the arm was finished. His shirt was of the finest fine. There was some subtle scent about his coat that pleased me.
But after blows enough had fallen to mark the shirt with streaks of blood, Jeph could bear it no longer. "Hold!" he said. "You will never make him speak that way. Father and mother never could. Strokes do but harden him." "The sure token of a fool," said the corporal, and prepared for another lash. "'Tis plain he knows," said one of the others. "He would never stand this if a word would save him."
Say, what was your Pa running after the doctor in his shirt sleeves for last Sunday morning? He looked scared. Was your Ma sick again?" "O, no; Ma is healthy enough, now she has got a new fur lined cloak.
As the perspiration soon began rolling from his forehead, a friend seeking to put him at his ease, suggested he open up his cloak. The gentleman addressed cast a glance over the assembled group, broadened out into a smile, and exclaimed "I can't. Only got my night shirt underneath." The hilarity was general, and the conversation presently became bright and sparkling with humorous anecdotes.
I know nothing about the shirt, only for some reason I seem drawn to it: it's stolen, and that's all I can say. Among us detectives it's come to their saying, 'Oh, Anisim has gone to shoot snipe! That means looking for stolen goods. Yes.... Anybody can steal, but it is another thing to keep! The earth is wide, but there is nowhere to hide stolen goods."
If I would sit down with my eyes closed for five minutes, Sol, that loafer would do me for my shirt. I must be on the job all the time, Sol, otherwise that feller would have me on the streets yet." For a quarter of an hour longer Abe reviled Morris, until Sol was moved to protest.
She asked Harold about it, and had for answer, 'Do you think he would, after the way you served him? Either he was affronted, or he was ashamed of her seeing his rags, or, what was not quite impossible, there was no shirt at all in the case; and he had a sturdy sort of independence about him, that made him always turn surly at any notion of anything being done for him for charity.
Nobody but Clown could make such a squeaking voice and wear such clogs as are worn by cheap actors. After a while Red Shirt appeared at the door with a lamp in his hand, and said, "Come in; it's no other than Mr. Yoshikawa." "This is good enough," I said, "it won't take long." I looked at his face which was the color of a boiled lobster. He seemed to have been drinking with Clown.
Gower's one shirt was passing through the various complexions, and had approached the Nubian on its way to negro. His natural candour checked the downward course. He mentioned to Mrs. Carthew, with incidental gravity, on a morning at breakfast, that this article of his attire 'was beginning to resemble London snow. She was amused; she promised him a change more resembling country snow.
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