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Lord Newmarket's old home is mortgaged, mortgaged everywhere. His house is mortgaged, his park is mortgaged, his stud is mortgaged, his tie-pin is mortgaged; yet he wants to marry Lady Angela. How can he restore his old home to its earlier glories? There is only one chance.
You wouldn't have suspected me of spending a hundred pounds on a tie-pin, would you?" "Uncle John was very kind to us," said Aunt Laura. "There were six of us, but he never came to the house without bringing us each a little present." "He was always dressed in black and wore a tie-wig," said Aunt Ellen. "Our dear father and he were very dissimilar, but our father relied on his judgment.
Three times that afternoon he had dressed himself in a tail-coat, and three times he had discarded it for an old dressing-gown; three times he had placed his pearl tie-pin in position, and three times he had removed it again, the little looking-glass in his room being the witness of these changes of mind. The question was, which would Katharine prefer on this particular afternoon in December?
Once or twice his head dropped forward rather suddenly, so that his clean-shaven chin touched his tie-pin, and this without a feeling of sleepiness warranting the relaxation of the spinal column. He sat up suddenly on each occasion and threw back his shoulders. "Almost seems," he muttered once, "as if I were getting to be an old man."
This was one of the many little inventions of his own. Mr. Tedder describes him as a man of great and subtle intellect and very urbane. "He had an athletic appearance and a military carriage, and yet more the look of a literary man than of a soldier." In summer as usual he wore white clothes, the shabby old beaver, and the tie-pin shaped like a sword. Mr.
His watch, of course, was gone, but not, I am glad to say, his chain, which hung dangling, though in his flurry he had not noticed it. It made him look a trifle ridiculous. As he wore no tie-pin he had not lost that, and beyond his temper he had indeed lost nothing further save, possibly, a textbook upon Thermodynamics.
Out of doors, in summer, Burton wore a spotlessly white suit, a tie-pin shaped like a sword, a pair of fashionable, sharply-pointed shoes, and the shabbiest old white beaver hat that he could lay his hands upon. On his finger glittered a gold ring, engraved with the word "Tanganyika." In appearance, indeed, he was a compound of the dandy, the swash-buckler and the literary man. He led Mr.
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."
In due course he halted before the inebriated one with the glittering tie-pin in the smoking compartment of the parlor car. "Ticket, please," said Hawkeye. "Too busy to buysh ticket," the man informed him, with heavy confidence. "Whash fare Loon Dam to Big Cloud?" "One-fifty," said Hawkeye curtly. The man produced a roll of bills, and from the roll extracted a two-dollar note.
There had also vanished a twisted gold tie-pin, and a large mourning ring, both gifts of former employers. When people are living near that deep pit which divides the secure from the insecure when they see themselves creeping closer and closer to its dread edge they are apt, however loquacious by nature, to fall into long silences. Bunting had always been a talker, but now he talked no more.
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