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"Oh, all right," he cried, and he held out his hand and shook mine, brightening up the next moment, and looking as pleased as if he had just got a great trouble off his mind. "You needn't be in such a jolly hurry to forgive him," said Smith in a remonstrant tone; "he has been a cheeky little beggar, and deserved all he got." "But it isn't nice to be wigged, all the same," said Barkins sharply.
The clear right being there, and now also the clear might, why take refuge in diplomatic wiggeries, in Assiento Treaties, and Arrangements which are NOT analogous to the facts; which are but wigged mendacities, therefore; and will but aggravate in quantity and in quality the fighting yet needed? "The Assiento Treaty being fixed upon, the English ought to have kept it.
The latter and Gilbert Penny were conversing amicably in the lower room at the right of the stairway a chamber with a bed that, nevertheless, was used for informal assemblage. Mr. Winscombe wore an enveloping banian of russet brocade with deep furred cuffs, and a turban of vermilion silk comfortably replacing a wigged formality. Under that brilliant colour his face was as yellow as an orange.
Before these receptions, however, and in the month of November, I presented my letters of credence as Ambassador to the Emperor. This presentation is quite a ceremony. Three coaches were sent for me and my staff, coaches like that in which Cinderella goes to her ball, mostly glass, with white wigged coachmen, outriders in white wigs and standing footmen holding on to the back part of the coach.
The only clear idea in the heads of the robed and wigged wiseacres was, that the case, Napier versus Napier, was a puzzle which no man could read or solve.
Among sundry telegrams received was one composed regardless of cost and signed 'Turnbull. He could not discover who Turnbull might be until John Orgreave had reminded him of the wigged, brown, conversational gentleman whom he had met, on one occasion only, at Adela's. His mother's great sprawling letter had pleased him better than any save one. The exception was his stepfather's.
Wearing a hat beribboned like a fairing and plumed like the head-piece of a Representative on mission, the citoyenne Rochemaure was wigged, painted, patched and scented.
Lord Methuselah, though you know his age by the peerage though he is old, wigged, gouty, rouged, wicked, has lighted up a pure flame in that gentle bosom. "Why are you so late, Edward?" says she. Dear artless child! Her mother looks on with tender satisfaction. One can appreciate the joys of such an admirable parent! "Look at them!" says Miss Toady.
They were a sad debauched-looking set, some of them scarcely out of their teens, with pallid cheeks, trembling hands, sunken eyes, and all the symptoms of premature decay. Others the sock-and-buskin ones were a made-up, wigged, and padded set. Bugles was resplendent. He carried his whip in the arm's-length-way of a circus master following a horse.
"Magnanimous I can by no means call Friedrich to his allies and neighbors, nor even superstitiously veracious, in this business: but he thoroughly understands, he alone, what just thing he wants out of it, and what an enormous wigged mendacity it is he has got to deal with.
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