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The hippopotamus clothed in black did not take off his skullcap this time, to the child's great regret, for he wished to assure himself if the degrees of latitude and longitude were checked off in squares on M. Batifol's cranium as they were on the terrestrial globe. He conducted his pupil to his class at once and presented him to the master. "Here is a new day scholar, Monsieur Tavernier.
The festival of Saturnus himself occurred on December 17th, and was a barbarous and joyous harvest-home, a time of absolute relaxation and unrestrained merriment, when distinctions of rank were forgotten, and crowds thronged the streets crying, Io Saturnalia! even slaves wearing the pileus or skullcap, emblem of liberty, and all throwing off the dignified toga for the easy and comfortable synthesis, perhaps a sort of tunic.
He acted the words as he read, modulating his voice to suit the various characters, stamping and storming, and to adjust his black skullcap it would tumble off at the pathetic parts dealing himself a succession of sounding slaps on the crown of his head. This sacred drama, in which no woman appeared, was to be played by the pupils of the Institution at a forthcoming function.
He had a close-fitting skullcap on his head, of white, embroidered linen. He was Hamoud-bin-Said. She passed him without a second glance, and found herself face to face with the physician, who was just starting back to town. Dr.
The water had sleeked down his hair to a satin skullcap on his full head. "This is a wet night, madame and mesdemoiselles," he observed. "Oh, Monsieur Zhone," lamented Madame Saucier, "how can you laugh? We are all ruined." "No, madame. There is no such word as 'ruin' in the Territory." "And I must take my two little children, and leave Angélique here in the midst of this water."
On seeing the young man enter by the private door, the messenger rose, dropped his newspaper on the armchair, hastily raised his velvet skullcap, tried to smile, and made two steps forward. "Good-morning, old Felix," said the young man, in a friendly tone to the messenger. "Is my aunt within?"
He is one of the ablest of Shans, and would willingly place his little principality under the protection of England. He is thirty-five years of age, dresses in full Chinese costume, with pigtail and skullcap, is pock-marked, and has incipient goitre. He is polite and refined, chews betel nut "to stimulate his meditative faculties," and expectorates on the floor with easy freedom.
They mostn't go and feel themselfs petter than those boor millionairss that hadt to steal their money." March smiled indulgently at his old friend's violence. "Oh, there are fagots and fagots, you know, Lindau; perhaps not all the millionaires are so guilty." "Let us speak German!" cried Lindau, in his own tongue, pushing his book aside, and thrusting his skullcap back from his forehead.
I had expected to see an elderly lady, but not quite so venerable a one as Mrs. Jameson proved to be; a rather short, round, and massive personage, of benign and agreeable aspect, with a sort of black skullcap on her head, beneath which appeared her hair, which seemed once to have been fair, and was now almost white. I should take her to be about seventy years old.
Next evening, therefore, he returned from the Syssite early, exchanged his helmet for a skullcap, and, wrapping himself in his cloak, made his way to the house from which he had seen the men come forth. It stood at the corner of the street. Thick hangings hung across the openings for the windows, and prevented even a ray of light from finding its way out.
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