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"They found letters from Captain Brocq on her." De Loubersac's laugh had a sneer in it. "Bah!" said the old accordion player, punctuating his remark with some piercing sounds from his ancient instrument of discordant music. "It was a got-up business!" "What is that you say?" objected de Loubersac.
Only novelty was a splendid Pathan chap, got-up in English except for the conical cap and puggri. Extraordinarily like Ross-Ellison, except that he had long black Pathan hair on his shoulders. Been to England; barrister probably, and seemed the most viciously seditious of the lot.
'You were surprised, then, when you heard the story? 'Knocked off my pins, sir. I never was so much taken aback in my life. To be told that John Caldigate had married Euphemia Smith after all that I had seen, and that he had been married to her in May '73! I knew of course that it was all a got-up thing. And he's in prison? 'He is in prison, certainly. 'For bigamy? 'Indeed he is, Mr. Shand.
You are new to this place, and you have been coming the stuck-up on the strength of your father being a poor half-pay Company's colonel. Honourable East India Company indeed! Shabby set of sham soldiers got-up to look like the real." The face of the boy he addressed changed colour a little, and he drew a deep breath as he compressed his lips.
He was reminded of a Fourth of June years before, when Desmond had gone through agonies of shame because his father was not, in his eyes, properly 'got-up' for the occasion how he had disappeared in the High Street, and only joined his people again in the crowd at the fireworks. 'I recommend you to stick it, Desmond. It won't last long. I've got my part to play, and you've got yours.
It was a great moment; it was in 1880, the year in which Stanley's work in Africa was done, and Nordenskoeld had accomplished his task. When they had sung the "Te Deum" a German workman stepped forward and handed to the Italians a beautifully got-up parchment. It was a record and an appreciation of the services of the engineer-in-chief, Louis Favre.
The next minute Singh was walking quietly away by his companion's side; but his arm kept giving a sharp jerk as Slegge went on speaking more and more loudly, uttering words so that the friends might hear. "I don't care," said Slegge; "you fellows can do what you like, but I am not going to believe it. It's all a got-up thing.
There is Babbage's machine, and Bank Governor's machine, and the Yankee woman's machine, and the flyin' machine, and all sorts of machines, and galleries, and tunnels, and mesmerisers, and theatres, and flower-shows, and cattle-shows, and beast-shows, and every kind of show, and what's better nor all, beautiful got-up women, and men turned out in fust chop style, too.
One would tell some droll tale, and another would say something comical in order to make him laugh; and laugh he did, he must laugh; it would never do to let those fellows know what was passing in his mind; so he laughed loud as any of them, but what a laugh! how empty and hollow, how joyless and unreal, how unlike his former bursts of feeling! a got-up laugh, which shewed plainer than ever something was wrong.
And, moreover, he had spoken with some heat for such a good-tempered man on the shortcomings of Dorothy's laundry work. "We'd better put your collars out," said his wife. "And the shirts," said Mr. Jobson. "Nothing looks worse than a bad got-up cuff." "You're getting quite dressy," said his wife, with a laugh. Mr. Jobson eyed her seriously. "No, mother, no," he replied.
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