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It is very unfortunate, very." By this time he had untied his parcel, and flattening the paper on his knees began to put the contents on the table. There were some field-glasses, a breast pin, and a few other such things; when he had put them all out he felt in his waistcoat-pocket for his watch. "They would fetch a trifle," he said, regarding the row a little proudly. "Those?"
At length, when the cathedral clock had finished striking through first four and then eleven strokes, as German clocks are wont to do an hour before twelve, De Wette Number Two manifested signs of retiring to rest, took out his watch, the identical large gold one the other Doctor in the other chamber felt sure was at that moment safe in his waistcoat-pocket, and wound it up, removed a portion of his clothing, came to the window, closed the curtains, and in a few moments the light disappeared.
Burnet, or Leonard, or Mr. Burnet's butler, or Mrs. Bosher's brother. "Or perhaps by all of us!" said Leonard laughing. These plans and hours being clearly understood, and Leonard having advanced Mitchell a sovereign to help pay for the move, he took his leave, his scarf-pin safe in his waistcoat-pocket.
Ezra, to satisfy her, poured out and drank a cup of coffee, and then walked out into the street, bending his steps in the direction of Rachel's cottage. Twice on the way he paused and half drew from his waistcoat-pocket the yellow old note which had so long lingered on its way to him, but each time he returned it without looking at it, and walked on again.
He ordered a bottle of soda-water, sank into an easy-chair, and took up the Times newspaper. But presently he threw it down impatiently, and took his watch from his waistcoat-pocket. Attached to the watch there was a locket of chased yellow gold.
Then he took his change from the tailor, counted it, and dropped the gold and silver into his waistcoat-pocket. The man's manner was as much altered as his person. He had entered the shop at eight o'clock that morning a blackguard as well as a vagabond. He left it now a gentleman; subdued in voice, easy and rather listless in gait, haughty and self-possessed in tone.
Chitling, with a very long face, as he drew half-a-crown from his waistcoat-pocket. 'I never see such a feller as you, Jack; you win everything. Even when we've good cards, Charley and I can't make nothing of 'em.
It fell upon thy shoulder and thou couldst not catch it!" said the first lover to his lady, and stuck the rose into his waistcoat-pocket. All got partners all the girls; even the children, they leaped about to their own singing out upon the bridge. Only ONE stood forlorn, Sidsel, with the grown-together eyebrows; she smiled, laughed aloud; no one would become her partner.
Captain Whalley pushed the paper into his waistcoat-pocket, took his stick from under his arm, and walked down the street. It was a recently opened and untidy thoroughfare with rudimentary side-walks and a soft layer of dust cushioning the whole width of the road.
However, Ann never meditated in earnest, taking the indentures; indeed, the desk was always locked it held other documents more valuable than hers and Samuel Wales carried the key in his waistcoat-pocket. She went to a dame's school, three months every year. Samuel Wales carted half a cord of wood to pay for her schooling, and she learned to write and read in the New England Primer.
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