Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 24, 2025
And when I go down to my country place for the summer, you can come there whenever your business is urgent. I'll settle all expenses with you." "Thank you, Sir Francis. Good-day!" "Good-day! A pleasant holiday to you!" Benson bowed his respectful thanks again, and retired. Sir Francis Vesey, left alone, took his hat and gazed abstractedly into its silk-lined crown before putting it on his head.
May was announced, and they were in a silk-lined boudoir, where a little slender figure in black started up, and came forward with outstretched hand. "Norman!" she cried, "how are you? Are you come on your way to Oxford?" "Has not Flora had Mary's letter?" "Yes, she said she had one. She was keeping it till she had time to read it."
One of them stood on the topmost steps, lighting a cigarette: he carried his silk-lined Inverness over his arm so sultry the night was and the ladies wore but the slightest of wraps over their bright frocks and jewels. One of them as we passed stepped forward, and I saw her dismissing her brougham.
And as he spoke, he somehow flung his arms straight out behind him, and let the dust-coat slip off, which it easily did, the sleeves being new and smoothly silk-lined. The suddenness of the movement threw me completely off my guard, and off my legs as well. I was clinging to the coat and holding him.
"As if one sees anything nowadays but silk-lined clothes!" "By Jove! What do they soak you for a coat like that?" And Milde feels the goods appraisingly. "Oh, I don't remember; I never can remember figures; that is out of my line. I put all my tailor bills away; I come across them whenever I move." "Ha, ha, ha! that is certainly a rational system, most practical.
I never got farther than the office myself, but even there he had a lot of costly things, books and papers, silver things for the writing-table, gilt instruments and things; a light overcoat, silk-lined, hung on the wall. Evidently a rich man, and a person of importance in the place. The local photographer had a large-sized photograph of him in the show-case outside.
The twentieth century was stamped across his brow, and on his lips was ever the word "Service." Silent, courteous, watchful, alert, he listened, while you talked. His method, in turn, made that of the silk-lined salesman sound like the hoarse hoots of the ballyhoo man at a county fair. Blithely he accepted five hundred thousand dollars and gave in return a promise.
The man in the silk-lined, London-made overcoat, holding his hat firmly on his head lest the January wind send its expensive perfection into the gutter, paused to ask his way of the man with no overcoat, his hands shoved into his ragged pockets, his shapeless headgear crowded down over his eyes, red and bleary with the piercing wind. "Burns?" repeated the second man to the question of the first.
The touch of that silk-lined tube caused the proper reaction, and she backed quickly into it and disappeared. Just what natural enemy the trap-door spider has I do not know. I never saw a nest that had been broken into or in any way disturbed, except those which we had disturbed in our observations.
Pearl put her hands in the silk-lined pockets of her coat, and thought about what she had just seen. "Life is like this," she said at last, "human nature is full of mischief. It loves to start trouble and fan a fire into a destructive mood; and there's only one way to stop it plough a fire-guard.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking