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"Stepping-stones lie low, as my reverend friend suggests; impudence ascends; merit and refinement scorn such dirty paths," with a mournful remembrance of the last dime in his waistcoat-pocket. "But do you," exclaimed the farmer, with sudden solemnity, "do you understand this scheme of Knowles's?
So George Fairfax put the bauble in his waistcoat-pocket, and whatever sentimental pleasure might be derived from such a talisman was his. There are those among our disciples of modern magic who believe there is a subtle animal magnetism in such things; that the mere possession of such a token constitutes a kind of spiritual link between two beings. Mr.
Two or three attempts or, perchance, half a dozen are requisite before the board can be rearranged to his satisfaction. If he have received a silver coin, he waits till the purchaser is out of sight, then examines it closely, and tries to bend it with his finger and thumb: finally he puts it into his waistcoat-pocket with seemingly a gentle sigh.
No intonation could have expressed greater doubt. "I am certain of it; and when two people like one another, all goes easily." "Well, not always," said the Captain, whose position made him less optimistic. The Count felt in his waistcoat-pocket. Dieppe sat looking down towards the floor with a frown on his face.
My proposal to die for you was made in as playful a spirit as my proposal to marry you. And it is really for me to ask forgiveness of you. One thing especially," he murmured, fingering in his waistcoat-pocket the ear-rings she had given him, "pricks my conscience. I do feel that I ought not to have let you give me these two pearls at any rate, not the one which went into premature mourning for me.
"One must do at Rome as Rome does," Pen said, in a dandified manner, jingling some sovereigns in his waistcoat-pocket. "A little quiet play at ecarte can't hurt a man who plays pretty well I came away fourteen sovereigns richer from Ringwood's supper, and, gad! I wanted the money."
On this one bright gift of Time to the particular victim of his now before us the new-comer's eyes were fixed; meanwhile the fingers of his right hand mechanically played over something sticking up from his waistcoat-pocket the bows of a pair of scissors, whose polish made them feebly responsive to the light within.
I don't like to send it by any one else it is so much;" and she took from under her pillows a velvet bag, so heavy, that it weighed down her slender white hand. "What, he has given you the care of his money?" said Ethel. "Yes; I saw him turning something out of his waistcoat-pocket into the drawer of the looking-glass, and sighing in that very sad way.
The double long-off was at such a distance that, he being a small man, I could only just see him through the field-glass which I kept in my waistcoat-pocket.
A faint light dawned through the dirty window on the morning succeeding the little event with which we opened our story, when Mary rose softly from her humble couch, and stepping lightly to where her father's clothes lay on a chair, at the foot of his bed, she put her hand into his waistcoat-pocket, and, extracting therefrom the guinea which had been found in the gruel the preceding evening, she transferred it to her own.
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