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"Same to you, my lad. Good day." Then the old gentleman in the top hat and white spats moved slowly away, passed down the tree-shaded walk, passed the romping children, passed the Princess Louise's statue of Queen Victoria, and, after a moment, vanished. Ten minutes later, when Narkom and Sir Henry returned to the waiting motor, they found him seated within it awaiting them, as he had promised.
'Have you nothing else? The professor of drawing pondered for a moment, and then brightened; 'I have a pair of low-necked shirts, he said, 'that I used to wear in Paris as a student. They are rather loud. 'The very thing! ejaculated Michael. 'You'll look perfectly beastly. Here are spats, too, he continued, drawing forth a pair of those offensive little gaiters. 'Must have spats!
"Good afternoon, Miss Braithwaite," he said in the amiably precise voice which matched so admirably his beautifully precise movements and his immaculate gray spats. "Yes. In the language of our young friend here, 'I am the guy." Phyllis giggled before she thought. Some people in the world always make your spirits go up with a bound, and the De Guenther pair invariably had that effect on her.
I remembered what Professor Lesard had said about blue stockings but Miss Dorothy Van Twiller's were gray, turned over at the tops, and disappearing into canvas spats buckled across a pair of slim shooting-boots. "Welcome," said I, attempting to restrain a too violent cordiality. "Welcome, Professor Van Twiller, to the Hudson Mountains."
The more two love, the more they are aggrieved by each other's faults; of which these spats are but the correction." "Love-spats instead of being universal, they are consequent on imperfect love, and only aggravate, never correct errors. Sexual storms never improve, whereas love obviates faults by praising the opposite virtues.
He wore a suit of navy serge fitting close to his figure, black tie, and grey spats. In fact, he was as immaculate as a young diplomat should always be.
So possess yourself in patience and act always with foresight as well as with discretion." I chanced to raise my eyes at that moment, when I noticed that a well-dressed, black-mustached Frenchman, who wore white spats, while passing along the terrace of the fine al fresco restaurant had halted a second to peer into Madame's face, no doubt struck by her handsome features.
A moment later a voice was heard from the anteroom, saying: "If any one telephones, I'm not in the club any one at all. Do you hear?" Then Towsey, the decorator, appeared at the letterboxes in spats, militant checks, high collar and a choker tie, which, yearning toward his ears, gave him the appearance of one who had floundered up out of his clothes for the third and last time.
This bird's bit me in the finger, and 'ere's the finger, if you don't believe me and I'm going to twist 'is ruddy neck, if all the perishers with white spats in London come messing abart and mucking around, so you I take them white spats of yours 'ome and give 'em to the old woman to cook for your Sunday dinner!"
But she is littler. And you mustn't spend much money. Mother said I spent too much for my rab-yit. That I ought to save it for Our Men. And you mustn't eat what you yike we've got a card in the window, and there wasn't any bacon for bref-fus." "Breakfast." "Yes. An' we had puffed rice and prunes " Nurse, coming up, was immediately on the job. "You are getting mud on Mr. Derry's spats, Teddy.
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