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One of those women who are all shirt and collar and nattiness, with a gold fox for a tie-pin and a hunting-crop under the arm. She was killed schooling a horse in Mexico after making Ulford shy and uncomfortable for fifteen years. Lady Cardington and a Texas cowboy would have been as well suited to one another. Ulford's been like a wistful ghost, they tell me, ever since her death.
The all conquering light had gone out of his eye. His boots were a little dusty and he wore no tie-pin. He had, I suppose, become rich beyond the symptoms of prosperity. "Well," I smiled at him to reassure him. "It has all been very surprising, hasn't it?" he said with an embarrassed expression. I didn't know whether to say "yes" or "no," that I was glad or that I was sorry.
Immediately everyone except Benson stood up. "I am, sir." "But you can't all be the senior." "Yes, sir; we are," was the unanimous answer. "You see, sir," Gordon explained, "I am the cleverest and should be the senior, but Mansell there, that dolt with the tie-pin, has been longer in the school, and he's got his Seconds, and rather fancies himself.
And Jolly, tinkling his teaspoon, was musing: 'His tie-pin and his waistcoat and his drawl and his betting good Lord! And Val, finishing his bun, was thinking: 'He's rather a young beast! "I suppose you'll be meeting your people?" he said, getting up. "I wish you'd tell them I should like to show them over B.N.C. not that there's anything much there if they'd care to come."
This station-master was even more unemotional than the last. He asked me if I knew anybody who could vouch for me I mentioned Herbert diffidently. He had never even heard of Herbert. I showed him my gold watch, my silver cigarette case, and my emerald and diamond tie-pin that was the sort of man I was.
The five minutes threatened to become ten, for, in adjusting his tie-pin it slipped from his fingers, struck the floor and vanished, as though an evil fate had gobbled it. He searched for it frenziedly, cursing lowly, but none the less viciously.
"I recollect," said Aunt Ellen in a slow, careful voice, "when our Uncle John used to come down to Kencote by the four-horse coach, and post from Bathgate." "Ah," said Lord Meadshire sympathetically, "I never saw my Uncle John, to my knowledge, though he left me a hundred pounds in his will. I recollect I spent it on a tie-pin. I was an extravagant young dog in those days, my dear.
Childers also said, 'By Jove, old Fitz knocks spots out of 'em every time, but I don't know what he meant. I'm trying to learn to talk like Childers. When I can do that, I shall buy a tie-pin like Fitzmaurice's, only mine will be paste. Streater's is paste; he's another nice man." "He certainly is. In fact, Margery, you really are not particular enough about the company you keep.
As well, thought Paul, picture the late Cardinal Newman sharpening knife on steel outside a butcher's shop, and crying, "buy, buy," in lusty invitation. Then Paul noticed that he was oddly apparelled. He wore the black frock-coat suit of a Methodist preacher at the same time as the rainbow tie, diamond tie-pin, heavy gold watch-chain, diamond ring and natty spats of a professional bookmaker.
What a motley crowd we were: clerks in bowler hats; "knuts" in brown suits, brown ties, brown shoes, and a horse-shoe tie-pin; tramp-like looking men in rags and tatters and smelling of dirt and beer and rank twist. Old soldiers trying to "chuck a chest"; lanky lads from the country gaping at the houses, shops and people.
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