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Updated: May 3, 2025
"I looked around, and saw a heavy-featured, dull-looking man about twenty-five, dressed in a good suit of well-cut clothes, shiny stove-pipe silk hat, high collar with a good deal of necktie, a big pearl pin, and a long gold watch-chain which went all around his neck like an eye-glass ribbon. He had a smooth-shaven face, two keen eyes, a flat nose, square jaw, and a straight line of a mouth.
That they were going in the right direction, he had the testimony of the little compass he carried at his watch-chain, and at length he saw a faint gleam before him. When at last he raised his head, wearily bent beneath the low roofs of the passages, and looked upwards, there was a star looking down at him out of the sky of day!
The black silk dress, the gold watch-chain, and huge cameo brooch did not help to reassure him. "Good-good afternoon, ma'am," said Mr. Wotton, in a thin voice. The old lady returned the greeting, and, crossing to a chair and seating herself in a very upright fashion, regarded him calmly. "We we called to see you about a dear old pal friend, I mean," continued Mr. Wotton; "one o' the best.
Their clothes look as if they had been bought ready-made at a slop-shop. The tie they prefer is a black bootlace; if not, it is bound to be of the most tasteless colour and pattern you can think of. A heavy gold watch-chain and diamond ring is de rigueur, but otherwise they do not wear much jewellery.
His gloves, his scarf-pin, his watch-chain, his mustache, his eye-glass, the crease in his nether garments, the cut of his coat-tails, the curves of his hat all uttered with one accord the final word of fashion, left nothing else to be said. The correctness of Keith Prowse's clerk was as naught to his correctness.
The brooch having been minutely described as above, and roughly sketched, Madame then wrapped up a coin attached to her watch-chain in two cigarette papers, and put it in her dress, and said that she hoped the brooch might be obtained in the course of the evening. At the close of dinner she intimated to Mr. Hume that the paper in which the coin had been wrapped was gone.
"The Blue Fire? I wish it had stayed there, all of it! Anything else?" "Yes," returned Average Jones, warming to the game. "You're an Eastern college man, I think. Anyway, your father or some older member of your family graduated from one of the older colleges." "What's the answer?" "The gold of your Phi Beta Kappa key is a different color from your watch-chain.
She remarked very honestly: 'Oh, no; doctors are not needed. 'Has she mentioned me? 'Not once. 'Why do you swing your watch-chain, ma'am? cried Beauchamp, bounding off his chair.
"Let me give you an instance of what I mean," said Elgar, again seating himself on the table and fingering his watch-chain nervously. "You have been making friends with Mrs. Travis. Now, you are certainly quite ignorant of her character. You don't know that she left home not long ago." Cecily asked in a low voice: "And why didn't you tell me this before?"
Half my Kingdom shall you have, as the saying is. I slipped a small charm compass from my watch-chain and handed it up to the priest. Good-by, said Dravot, giving me his hand cautiously. Its the last time well shake hands with an Englishman these many days. Shake hands with him, Carnehan, he cried, as the second camel passed me. Carnehan leaned down and shook hands.
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