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He looked at it for a moment, hesitated, touched the inner corner of his right eye with the pulp of his middle finger, looked at the face of the watch, said it was getting into the forenoon, then opened the watch and handed me the loose outside case without a word. The watch-paper had been pink once, and had a faint tinge still, as if all its tender life had not yet quite faded out.
The old gentleman took the watch-paper carefully from her, replaced it, turned away and walked out, holding the watch in his hand. I saw him pass the window a moment after with that foolish white hat on his head; he couldn't have been thinking what he was about when he put it on. So the schoolmistress and I were left alone.
Two little birds, a flower, and, in small school-girl letters, a date, 17 . . no matter. Before I was thirteen years old, said the old gentleman. I don't know what was in that young schoolmistress's head, nor why she should have done it; but she took out the watch-paper and put it softly to her lips, as if she were kissing the poor thing that made it so long ago.
Miss Jane Campbell has allowed me to question her on the delicate subject of avoirdupois equivalents; and the armless fair one, whose embrace no monarch could hope to win, has wrought me a watch-paper with those despised digits which have been degraded from gloves to boots in our evolution from the condition of quadrumana.
Two little birds, a flower, and, in small school-girl letters, a date, 17... no matter. Before I was thirteen years old, said the old gentleman. I don't know what was in that young schoolmistress's head, nor why she should have done it; but she took out the watch-paper and put it softly to her lips, as if she were kissing the poor thing that made it so long ago.
Miss Jane Campbell has allowed me to question her on the delicate subject of avoirdupois equivalents; and the armless fair one, whose embrace no monarch could hope to win, has wrought me a watch-paper with those despised digits which have been degraded from gloves to boots in our evolution from the condition of quadrumana.
Well, the roof leaked, and presto! when I rose I found my watch swimming in water your watch-paper all soaked and torn that is to say, my fingers tore it; and a dozen minuets I had bought for you shared the same fate, not to mention my jemmy-worked garters! My ill luck was complete me miserum!" "Was it at college?" "Oh no," said Sir Asinus; "you know I am temporarily absent from the Alma Mater."
I should not have cared much for this, but something worse attended it; the subtle particles of the water with which the case was filled, had by their penetration so overcome the cohesion of the particles of paper, of which my dear picture and watch-paper were composed, that in attempting to take them out to dry them, my cursed fingers gave them such a rent as I fear I never shall get over!
Two little birds, a flower, and, in small school-girl letters, a date, 17 . . no matter. Before I was thirteen years old, said the old gentleman. I don't know what was in that young schoolmistress's head, nor why she should have done it; but she took out the watch-paper and put it softly to her lips, as if she were kissing the poor thing that made it so long ago.
He looked at it for a moment, hesitated, touched the inner corner of his right eye with the pulp of his middle finger, looked at the face of the watch, said it was getting into the forenoon, then opened the watch and handed me the loose outside case without a word. The watch-paper had been pink once, and had a faint tinge still, as if all its tender life had not yet quite faded out.
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