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"I dare say," I answer, absently; then, in a low tone to myself, "why does not he smoke? it would be so easy then a smoking-cap, a tobacco-pouch, a cigar-holder, a hundred things!" "Is it quite settled about Loschwitz?" asks the young man, with an air of indifference. "Quite," say I, still not thinking of what I am saying. "That is, no not quite nearly a bag is useful, you know."
He tied his slippers on his feet, put on his smoking-cap, crept unseen from the house, and took the direction, of the Abbey.
He was a singularly handsome man, very dark, with glittering black eyes, and hair falling on his shoulders. On his head was a red velvet smoking-cap. "They have brought something to show you, Clément," she went on, as slowly as if counting her words "something that you have missed for many years." She opened the box and flashed the earrings before his eyes.
And it would continue: "A captain of one of our ships told me lately that he recognized Pedrito the Guerrillero, arrayed in purple slippers and a velvet smoking-cap with a gold tassel, keeping a disorderly house in one of the southern ports." "Abominable Pedrito!
His tasselled Turkish smoking-cap had fallen to the floor, and the hemisphere of his bald head glittered under the gas. 'Maud, I forbid you! And Harold put a hand on the glass. 'It's a matter of life and death. You must have misunderstood uncle. 'It was you who misunderstood uncle, said Maud. 'Of course, if you mean to prevent me by brute force
And I saw Chestermarke in a front room the blinds were not drawn and he was in a smoking-cap and jacket, so I reckoned he was safe for the night. But I can watch the house all night if you think it's necessary, you know, Mr. Starmidge." "No!" answered Starmidge. "Not at all. But I'll tell you what you be about there first thing tomorrow morning. Can you hang about without attracting attention?"
Homes think that I could help him in his trouble?" "Because of your knowledge of Eastern diseases." "But why should he think that this disease which he has contracted is Eastern?" "Because, in some professional inquiry, he has been working among Chinese sailors down in the docks." Mr. Culverton Smith smiled pleasantly and picked up his smoking-cap. "Oh, that's it is it?" said he.
The old clerk in the smoking-cap looked down over the rim of his spectacles. "Good-morning," he said, kindly and impressively. "You want the letters for the Spiral department, Thomas?"
My host came in, in the midst of these meditations, bringing a great flowered dressing-gown, lined with flannel, and the embroidered smoking-cap which he evidently considered as belonging to this Indian-looking robe. They had been his father's, he told me; and as he helped me to dress, he went on with his communications on small family matters.
"I went down to Acacia road on Thursday evening, and dimly perceived Fred across an opaque cloud of tobacco smoke. He and some kindred spirits were talking art jargon in this thick atmosphere. "Fred looked a Bohemian of Bohemians in his gaudy dressing-gown and velvet smoking-cap. His hair is longer than ever, and he has become aesthetic in his tastes.
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