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Pendyce looked out of the window, but there was nothing to see save the ha-ha, the coverts, the village spire, the cottage roofs, which for so long had been her world. "George won't come down here," she said. "George will do what I tell him." Again Mrs. Pendyce shook her head, knowing by instinct that she was right. Mr. Pendyce stopped putting on his waist-coat.
Exclamations in Portuguese, expressive of surprise and admiration, wore mingled with English oaths and Irish ejaculations, while high above all rose other sounds, the cries of some one in pain and suffering; forcing my way through the dense group, I at length reached the interior of the crowd when, to my astonishment, I perceived a short, fat, punchy-looking man, stripped of his coat and waist-coat, and with his shirt-sleeves rolled up to his shoulder, busily employed in operating upon a wounded soldier.
Kenneth, having adjusted his stock and white roll-over collar to suit his most exacting eye, slipped his arms into the coat Zachariah was holding for him, settled the shoulders with a shrug or two and a pull at the flaring lapels, smoothed his yellow brocaded waist-coat carefully, and then, spreading his long, shapely legs and at the same time the tails of his coat, took a commanding position with his back to the blazing logs.
To match the coat there was a velvet waist-coat of very ample size, and formerly embroidered with foliage that had been as brightly golden as the maple-leaves in October, but which had now quite vanished out of the substance of the velvet.
Whoever had been strutting about there to-day in his silken stockings, proudly displaying the nodding feathers in his hat, his rich waist-coat and mantle, and boasting a little too loud before some other gallant of his love adventures, ran great danger like all those whose demeanour in St.
The men hesitated, but did not seem quite disposed to submit without another struggle. "It's a shame to let them take him," cried the smith. "So it is. I vote for a rescue," cried Joe Dumsby. "Hooray! so does I," cried O'Connor, stripping off his waist-coat, and for once in his life agreeing with Joe.
He took a little ivory foot-rule from his waist-coat pocket, and gave it to the inspector, who fell on his knees and measured the footprint with the greatest care. "I must take a careful look at that house they're building. I shall find a good many traces there, to a dead certainty," said M. Formery. The inspector entered the measurements of the footprint in his note-book.
Do you think about it; and then some day speak to me again." Jeffrey, as he left his cousin with a cheque for £500 in his waist-coat pocket, thought that the interview which had at one time taken important dimensions, had not been concluded altogether satisfactorily. A seat in Parliament! Yes, indeed!
It was a few moments later, as they moved slowly towards the Flip-Flap which had seemed to both of them a fitting climax for the evening's emotions that Arthur, fumbling in his waist-coat pocket, produced a small slip of paper. 'What's that? Maud asked. 'Read it, said Arthur. 'It's from Home Moments, in answer to a letter I sent them.
He bore no more resemblance to the popular conception of a western gambler than does a college professor to a coal passer. Mr. Hennage lived in his shirtsleeves, paid cash and hated jewelry. He had never been known to carry a derringer or a small, genteel, silver- plated revolver in his waist-coat pocket. Neither did he appear in public with a bowie knife down his bootleg.
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