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Nor is the landlord much behind her in his finery, being attired in a smart blue jacket, like a ship's steward, with a thick gold ring upon his little finger, and round his neck a gleaming golden watch-guard. How glad he is to see us! What will we please to call for? A dance? It shall be done directly, sir: 'a regular break-down.
He did not believe that the storm had taken him far out of his course, but of this he could not be sure. All that he knew with certainty was that to the eastward lay the land, and eastward, therefore, they pulled, a little compass attached to the captain's watch-guard being their only guide.
"Oh, an ordinary sort of watch-guard." "I mean, was it a chain or a ribbon or a strap?" "A chain, I think or perhaps a ribbon or it might have been a strap." His lordship flattened his eyelids, but made no further sign, and Mr. Loram continued: "Did you or did you not notice what kind of watch-guard Mr. Bellingham was wearing?" "I did not. Why should I? It was no business of mine."
"I should think, ma'am," put in Nanny, with the quiet simplicity of her nature as well as of her habits, "that the gentleman must have bought his boots in Paris, for they seem to pinch his feet, and all the Paris boots and shoes pinch one's feet, at least, all mine did." "The watch-guard is stamped 'Geneva," continued Eve. "The coat comes from Frankfort: c'est une equivoque."
A man was listening in the dingiest of all the offices on the ground floor of a big building on the side away from the street a man in a drab silk suit, who twisted a leather watch-guard around his thumb and untwisted it incessantly. There was a telephone beside him, and a fair-sized pile of telegraph forms, but beyond that not much to show what his particular business might be.
Studs, sleeve-links, watch-guard, all carefully selected to go with the sapphire, had to be changed, the emerald which I chose as a compromise requiring more florid accompaniments of a deeper tone of gold; and the dinner hour struck as I replaced my jewel case, the one relic left me of a once handsome fortune, in my fireproof safe. The emerald looked very well that evening, however.
Here, the more timid or respectable portion of the crowd shroud themselves from the notice of the remainder, and patiently wait until the gentleman behind the counter, with the curly black hair, diamond ring, and double silver watch-guard, shall feel disposed to favour them with his notice—a consummation which depends considerably on the temper of the aforesaid gentleman for the time being.
He had gold links in his white shirt-cuffs, and a gold watch-guard chosen with a gentleman's taste. 'I am at your service, he said, with an approach to gaiety. 'Direct me. Shall we go quickly some distance, or only just a little quicker than the tide would float us? 'Which you like. To row much would make you too hot. 'You would like to go some distance I see. 'No, no.
The ladies were employed in needlework, or watch-guard making, or knitting, or reading novels; the gentlemen were reading newspapers and magazines; the children were digging holes in the sand with wooden spades, and collecting water therein; the nursemaids, with their youngest charges in their arms, were running in after the waves, and then running back with the waves after them; and, now and then, a little sailing-boat either departed with a gay and talkative cargo of passengers, or returned with a very silent and particularly uncomfortable-looking one.
It is the legacy which goes with this house and one which no inheritor as yet has refused either to receive or to transmit. Listen. You have often noted the gold filigree ball which I wear on my watch-guard. This ball is the talisman of our house, of this house. But that part must help me now to the whole. I have seen the filigree ball many times; Veronica has it now.
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