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The war-knowledgeable brain, looking out through spectacled eyes, would droop tired in its physical limber until it was brought on a level with the less scientific but more practical weapon of the polo-playing, cricketing, footballing British officer.
It is true she lay with closed eyes, apparently apathetic, but you never know with persons of that age. Experience teaches not to trust them. They shut their eyes, and yet seem, later on, to have seen; they apparently sleep, and afterwards are heard asking their spectacled American friend what people do on a ship, a place of so much gustiness, if their hair gets blown off into the sea.
'Do you know, Wilf, your tendency is to stoutness; in a few years you will be portly, if you live too sedentary a life. He looked annoyed, and by so doing gratified her. She proceeded. 'What do you think I overheard one of our spectacled friends say this morning "Sehen Sie mal," you were walking at a little distance "da haben Sie das Muster des englischen Aristokraten.
For hours at night he lay awake, listening to the frequent rain on the roof or the wind whining Teutonically in the leaves of his linden. In his initial troubles and anxieties he went to a German doctor. This spectacled wise man prescribed more beer. German physicians seemed to be in league with the brewers. Gard was of the kind who would suffer rather than complain. So he worried along.
And there, in the low cases along the walls, were the rows of his precious books, his one hobby and extravagance. He had grown to love the room. Would he ever come back to it? A step sounded in the hall, a knock, and the well-known gaunt form and spectacled face of McCrae appeared in the doorway. "Ye wished to see me?" he asked. "McCrae," said the rector, "I am going off for a while."
Ditmar halted in his steps at the sight of the tall, spectacled figure of the superintendent on the threshold. Orcutt hesitated, looking from one to the other. "I've been waiting for you," he said, after a moment, "the rest of that lot didn't come in this morning. I've telephoned to the freight agent." Ditmar stared at him uncomprehendingly. Orcutt repeated the information.
His spectacled eyes peered everywhere, and his shrewd sense judged instantly of a thing's value. He approved of the tobacco-shed as a store for arms, for he could reach it from the river by a little-used road through the woods. It was easy so to arrange, the contents that a passing visitor could guess nothing, and no one ever penetrated to its recesses but Faulkner and myself.
We don't mind being called immoral, we're above a bit flattered when London newspapers come out with shocking details of debauchery in the Five Towns, but we pride ourselves on our manners. I say, Aked! His voice rose commandingly, threateningly, to an old bent, spectacled man who was ascending a broad white staircase in front of us. 'Sir! The man turned.
Carstairs, as to your movements and absence from the surgery between 7.30 and 7.49 is that correct?" Wellesley drew himself to his full height, and spoke with emphasis: "Absolutely!" "And the evidence of the young woman, your housemaid? Is she correct in what she told us?" "Quite!" The Coroner looked down at his papers, his spectacled eyes wandering about them as if in search of something.
The editor of the "menacing periodical, not a Petersburg one," who was dancing with the cudgel in his hands, felt utterly unable to endure the spectacled gaze of "honest Russian thought," and not knowing how to escape it, suddenly in the last figure advanced to meet him standing on his head, which was meant, by the way, to typify the continual turning upside down of common sense by the menacing non-Petersburg gazette.
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