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Men might swear at the Hamilton Burton who kept them twiddling their thumbs until he came, yet when he came it seemed that the sunlight came with him and the mists of impatience were dissipated. A half-hour later he bowed them out, and they went smiling and telling one another as they left, "Remarkable fellow, Burton! Absolutely surmounts ordinary rules and ordinary difficulties.

It's a minute or two to two-two! Two-two-two-two-two!" Archie's concern increased. He seemed to be twiddling at this voluble man across seas of misunderstanding. Nothing is harder to interpret to a nicety than a twiddle, and Archie's idea of the language of twiddles and the high-priest's idea did not coincide by a mile.

Grant Allen's ideal man, he was not constitutionally a lover; indeed, he seemed not to like the ordinary girl at all found her either too clever or too shallow, lacking a something. I don't think he knew quite what it was. Neither do I it is a case for extended hand and twiddling fingers. Moreover, I don't think the ordinary girl took to Dunstone very much.

"No, the boy is too lazy; for whole weeks he sits twiddling with bits of red wax, and nothing comes of it. Why, he spends all his days at the Louvre and the Library, looking at prints and sketching things. He is an idler!"

"You see," resumed Mont, twiddling his straw hat, while his hair, ears, eyebrows, all seemed to stand up from excitement, "when you've been through the War you can't help being in a hurry." "To get married; and unmarried afterward," said Soames slowly. "Not from Fleur, sir. Imagine, if you were me!" Soames cleared his throat. That way of putting it was forcible enough.

I wondered whether they would discover me, and they did, though I think it was more by accident than by intention. Nevertheless a half-dozen ants appeared on the foot-strands, nervously twiddling their antennæ in my direction. Their appraisal was brief; with no more than a second's delay they started toward me.

"And there speaks the Norlaminian physicist, and not my old and reckless playmate Richard Seaton." "Oh, I don't know I told you I was getting timid as a mouse. But let's not sit here twiddling our thumbs let's go places and do things. Whither away? I want a destination a good ways off, not something in our own back yard."

I don't give much for that kind of cleverness; and what's the good of you, minister or not minister, if you can't keep consistent and stick to your own side." The chorus was so strong that the echo of it moved Tozer, who was a kind of arch-deacon and leading member too, in his way, where he sat twiddling his thumbs in his little room.

The ante-room was quite full and visitors were still arriving, but it was possible to hear oneself speak occasionally. Trivett and Eames, in sack and sash, sat side by side on a table, their hats at a ravishing angle, coquettishly twiddling their tied feet. In the intervals of singing 'Put Me Among the Girls, they sipped whisky-and-soda held to their lips by, I regret to say, a Major.

He wept for a kiss with his fingers twiddling on the hilt of his stiletto. Dear heart, these Italians!" "I should like to meet his countship," said I energetically. "Yes, he was a count, with a pedigree as long as the Rialto, and he had not two silver piastres to rub against each other. He was the handsomest man I have even seen.