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This Victorian gilt is at present not over-scarce, and as it is not as yet much in demand collectors have an exceptional opportunity of securing interesting specimens at moderate cost. Old Ivories. Much might be written about old ivories. Ivory has been a much-valued material for ornamental decoration from quite early times.
Immediately the ivories of the darkie became visible, and with a not ungraceful bow, he answered, "Jest tolable, thankee;" while his eyes wandered up the road, as if in quest of something they evidently did not find, for bending forward helooked curiously behind Edith, saying by way of apology, "I'se huntin' for yer little black boy; whar is he?"
Yes, he is right; it is a low neighbourhood and the air is poisonous, but I've managed to get what I wanted," and she held up a pocket handkerchief bulging with ivories. "I won't have to come again for ages and ages."
"By Jove, that's lucky," said Brackenbury, "for I'll be hanged if I haven't got old Lady 's false dinner-set of ivories in my waistcoat pocket, which I should have forgot if you hadn't mentioned t'other things, and then the old lady would have lost her blow-out this Christmas.
'Have you heard from him lately? 'Not for more than a year, but father hears of him through his London agent, and we know he is well. He sent us all lovely presents last Christmas Indian shawls, prayer-rugs, ivories, carved sandalwood boxes. The Vicarage is glorified by his gifts. The gong began booming and buzzing as Bessie pinned a big yellow rose among the folds of her Madras fichu, and Mrs.
Whether she exported her other peculiar productions, her transparent and colored glass, her exquisite metal bowls, plates, and dishes, her beautifully carved ivories, we cannot say. They have not hitherto been found in any place beyond her dominion, so that it would rather seem that she produced them only for home consumption.
If, therefore, he could keep out of the way until that anger had cooled, he had no further cause for worry. One day, seeking safety in flight with his father behind him, he dashed into the Wolf's kennel, and his grizzly chum thus unceremoniously awakened turned to the door, displayed a double row of ivories, and plainly said to the father: "Don't you dare to touch him."
I placed myself before the statue to criticise, you know. Well, it didn't seem to me that he needed to have turned up his nose at my ivories, for I didn't think much of his statue except that it was a great, lumping, extraordinary piece of work. It had an outstretched arm that, I remember thinking, was absolutely misshapen disproportioned, big enough for a giant, ridiculously out of drawing.
Putting the gum, which she had no idea was loaded, into her mouth, she mashed it between her ivories and rolled it as a sweet morsel under her tongue. It is said by those who happened to be behind the scenes, that when the tobacco began to get in its work there was the worst transformation scene that ever appeared on the stage.
A half-naked negro gave me some slight help in the "grooming" process all the while exhibiting his ivories and the whites of his eyes in an expression of ill-concealed astonishment, produced apparently by the presence of my uniform coat to the "darkey," no doubt, an uncommon apparition.
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