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Updated: May 3, 2025
A gold watch-chain with a locket extended partly across the visible portion of the envelope of the globe. He had very large feet which were carefully encased in soft calfskin boots.
The Colonel shook his head, and withdrew from his breast pocket a leather case, from which he extracted a gigantic regalia; this he lighted from a gold match-box in the shape of a locket attached to his watch-chain, and took two or three preliminary puffs, with his head thrown back and his eyes meditatively intent upon the ceiling.
The fire had burned down to a red glow. Presently he got up, walked to the window, and drew aside the curtain. "The first snow," he said, half aloud. It was coming down gently, through the darkness. He could just see the white rim on the stone sill outside. "I can do no more to-night," he said, and he bent to lock his despatch-box with the key on his watch-chain. The door suddenly opened.
The bull-fighter is remarkable also for the diamond rings which decorate his fingers and the massive gold, the ponderous seals, of his watch-chain. Who can wonder then that maidens fair, their hearts turning to thoughts of love, should cast favourable glances upon this hero of a hundred fights?
He took the nearest chair, winding his watch-chain about his finger to convey the air that he was at ease. "Did Jack send you to see me?" she asked then. "No." "You've no message from him?" "No." "Then, why do you come here?" She wanted to put the question firmly, but in her ears it sounded wavering; in his, touched only with surprise.
I had passed the order to stop all talking except when necessary, as it would only add to thirst. We ran along in silence. We had no compass save the one hanging to my watch-chain, as big as my thumb-nail, but I managed to make a pretty straight course for all that. The wind freshened and was quite cool.
They were single-barreled and silver-mounted, and very dainty and pretty. I was not able to speak for emotion. I silently hung one of them on my watch-chain, and returned the other. My companion in crime now unrolled a postage-stamp containing several cartridges, and gave me one of them. I asked if he meant to signify by this that our men were to be allowed but one shot apiece.
I know very well that you will not value it one-thousandth part as much as I do your likeness here on my watch-chain; but perhaps it will remind you of me sometimes. How I shall want to see you before I come home! You know you belong to me. Uncle gave you to me, and when I come back from Europe we will be married. We are both very young, I know; but it has been settled so long.
"No." "Why is it that if you pull one hair it hurts, but if you pull a lot at once it doesn't hurt a bit? Ha, ha! And, you know, it's a pity you don't have whiskers. Here ought to be shaved . . . but here at the sides the hair ought to be left. . . ." The boy nestled up to Belyaev and began playing with his watch-chain. "When I go to the high-school," he said, "mother is going to buy me a watch.
I'm going to hunt eggs." "I'd go with you, it's rare fun to hunt eggs, only I haven't seen Linnet yet." "And you must see Linnet yet," laughed Linnet, "Hollis, what a big boy you've grown to be!" she exclaimed regarding him critically; the new suit, the black onyx watch-chain, the blonde moustache, the full height, and last of all the friendly brown eyes with the merry light in them.
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