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Not such a beard as one might starch and curl but the beginnings an obfuscation of the chin, cheeks, and upper lip a horror of unseemly growth a landscape of the face comparable to that ominous tract which, all agree, Hides the Dark Tower in Browning's grim poem of 'Childe Roland. Then is the time to strop your favorite razor!
The dressing-room door being hastily flung open, Mr Mantalini was disclosed to view, with his shirt-collar symmetrically thrown back: putting a fine edge to a breakfast knife by means of his razor strop.
M. Putoin sat astride a chair. Renardet covered his chin with a white lather while he looked at himself in the glass. Then he sharpened his razor on the strop and continued: "The principal inhabitant of Carvelin bears the name of Joseph Renardet, mayor, a rich landowner, a rough man who beats guards and coachmen " The examining magistrate burst out laughing. "That's enough.
M. Putoin sat astride a chair. Renardet covered his chin with a white lather while he looked at himself in the glass. Then he sharpened his razor on the strop and continued: "The principal inhabitant of Carvelin bears the name of Joseph Renardet, mayor, a rich landowner, a rough man who beats guards and coachmen " The examining magistrate burst out laughing. "That's enough.
A strop of wire rope was passed completely round the hull, and to this strong belt the five cables were fastened two on each side and one at the bow. So steep was the slope of the water that it was found necessary to draw all the fires, and the steamer was thus dependent entirely upon external force.
Renardet now covered his chin with a white lather while he looked at himself in the glass; then he sharpened his razor on the strop and went on: "The principal inhabitant of Carvelin bears the name of Joseph Renardet, Mayor, a rich landowner, a rough man who beats guards and coachmen " The examining magistrate burst out laughing: "That's enough; let us pass on to the next."
"'Hand me ma strop, says MacBissing, pale but determined, and a few minutes later a passer-by micht have been arrested and even condemned to death by hearin' the sad and witchlike moans that came frae headquarters."
She was deceived, however; for just as the ale, or, to speak technically, the lamb's-wool, was fitted for drinking, and the little dingy maiden intimated that the sweetbread was ready to be eaten, the thin cracked voice of Benjamin was heard from the bottom of the stairs. "Why, Dame Ursley why, wife, I say why, dame why, love, you are wanted more than a strop for a blunt razor why, dame "
Me and Billy is the chiefs," he shouted, capering around, "and you and Frances is the squashes and got to have papooses strop' to your back." "Bennie Dick can be a papoose," suggested Billy. "I'm not going to be a Injun squash if I got to have a nigger papoose strapped to my back!" cried an indignant Frances. "You can strap him to your own back, Billy."
Well, to make a long story as short as possible, I went on at the proper time, followed by Jaques Strop. My appearance was greeted with a perfect whirlwind of applause, which lasted four or five minutes. Taking off my dilapidated beaver, I gracefully bowed my thanks and then began the part which commences thus: "Come along, comrade, put your best leg foremost. What are you afraid of?
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