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Updated: May 1, 2025
This individual combined two distinct trades. On the ground floor he sold second-hand books; in the cellar he bought jewels and gave money on the same to needy people. In the shop, pale youths, untidy, abstracted old men, spectacled girls, and all varieties of the pundit caste were to be seen poring over ancient volumes or exchanging words with the proprietor.
Peggy, with a perfectly grave face, indicated Miss Prescott's tent, from between the flaps of which that New England lady's spectacled countenance was peering. "Come out, auntie," she added. "Oh, Peggy, is it perfectly safe?" queried Miss Prescott anxiously. "Safe, mum!" exclaimed Bud expansively. "If it was any safer you'd hav ter send fer ther perlice.
Here was this disrupter of society, this man of the red flag here he was with his mild spectacled eyes and his furry ears wagging as he walked. It was unbelievable! and the sun shining on him quite as impartially as it shone on me. Coming at last to a pleasant bit of woodland, where a stream ran under the roadway, I said: "Stranger, let's sit down and have a bite of luncheon."
Without difficulty he found the small stationer's shop next to the synagogue in the Calle de Madrid, and bade the stationer a spectacled individual with upright hair and the air of seeking something in the world which is not usually behind a counter take his card to Senor Larralde.
A woman attendant was bending over the still senseless woman as the spectacled medico seized Alan Hawke's arm. "Has your wife ever had a previous heart attack?" he gravely asked, as he opened his lancet case. Major Hawke shook his head, and gazed pityingly upon the beautiful pallid face before him.
"I cal'late," said a rustic member of his vestry, "th' never was as pretty a weddin' so simple, nor as simple a weddin' so pretty!" Because he said it to Leonard Byington he ended with a manly laugh, for by the anxious glance of his spectacled daughter he knew he had slipped somewhere in his English.
The Vicar was in full career; the harsh creaking voice came to her from the distance. What an awkward unhandsome figure, with his long, lank countenance, his large ears and spectacled eyes! Yet an apostle, she admitted, in his way a whole-hearted, single-minded gentleman. But the barn he should not have. She watched him depart, and then slowly emerged from her hiding-place.
Bishop was not on the bench in the hall where visitors were appointed to wait. Only one man was on the bench, a spectacled, red-faced person. Mr. Prohack glanced about. Then the page-girl pointed to the spectacled person, who jumped up and approached Mr. Prohack somewhat effusively. "How d'ye do, Prohack?" "Well, Bishop!" Mr. Prohack responded. "It's you!"
In the last week of July they were visited by their daughter Lulu Lulu the fair, Lulu the spectacled, Lulu the lily wife of Harris Hartwig, the up-to-date druggist of Saserkopee, New York.
For himself, he did not find the occasion interesting, save as a means of social success. Most of the men were dull, and the women prim and proper: there were not more than two pretty girls in the whole party. "That's the heiress, I suppose," thought Sydney, hearing a spectacled, sandy-haired young woman who looked about five-and-twenty addressed as Miss Pynsent. "Plain, as I thought.
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