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Then he looked at his own watch and settled back in his chair, a somewhat dogged compression about his jaws. He was not the man to be thwarted. "You certainly have a cosy little place here. King," he remarked after a moment or two. "We like it," said King, twiddling his fingers behind his back. "Humble but homelike." "Mrs. Blithers has been planning to come over for some time, Mrs. King.
"But, d it, man, I am not! I take a deal more interest in the young lady than you seem to, and have scoured half this precious planet of yours on her account, and will be hanged if I sit idly twiddling my thumbs while her pretty skin is in danger." But Hath was lost in contemplation of his shoe-strings. "Come, sir," I said, shaking his majesty by the shoulder, "don't be down on your luck.
"I am told that you are going away to Brussels." "Mamma is going on a visit to her brother-in-law." "And you with her?" "Of course I shall go with mamma." All this had been said apart, while a fair-haired, lackadaisical young gentleman was standing twiddling his thumbs waiting to dance with Florence. At last the little book from her waist was brought forth, and Harry's name was duly inscribed.
Both, very much frightened, then took to their heels and rushed into the city, while Menelaus, after shaking Paris's shield, in defiance, at the walls, retired to the Grecian camp. Then came the preparations for battle. The Trojans leaned over their paper battlements, with their fingers to their noses, twiddling them in scorn, while the Greeks shook their fists back at them.
I don't believe it's the best thing for either of us for me to go on bein' a kind of an evergreen money-bush. And a man that's earnin' his own livin' don't have to ask odds of anybody. Don't you think you better bundle up your courage and get to work, Henry?" Henry was twiddling his watch-chain. "It hasn't been a matter of courage, exactly " "Oh, I know that.
Mr Dragwell was the curate of the parish; a little fat man with bow-legs, who always sat upon the edge of the chair, leaning against the back, and twiddling his thumbs before him. He was facetious and good-tempered, but was very dilatory in every thing.
He would have all the money, he said, or keep my poor monstre in prison. Paddington came in, too, drawling and lisping and twiddling his hair; so did Champignac, and his chef everybody with foison of compliments and pretty speeches plaguing poor me, who longed to be rid of them, and was thinking every moment of the time of mon pauvre prisonnier.
He waited a moment, twiddling his hat; his face was overcast, his mood hung between spite and pity. At last, 'Well, 'tisn't my fault, he said; and then relenting again, 'But there, I know what women are vapours one day, kissing the next. I'll try again, my lady. I am not proud. She flung him a gesture that meant assent, dissent, dismissal, as he pleased to interpret it.
The bishop was sitting in his easy chair twiddling his thumbs, turning his eyes now to his wife, and now to his chaplain, as each took up the cudgels.
The whole man aching, sore, with impatience; reason utterly fled, intellect bemused and baffled; a healthy, competent citizen of nigh middle age set all at once in the corner, crowned with a fool's cap, twiddling his thumbs in nervous fury. Dolorous spectacle, and laughable withal. He waited four-and-twenty hours, then clutched at Alma's reply. 'Dear Mr.
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