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The woman displayed them, announcing in a loud, harsh voice: "I am his mother!" This mother was as unpleasant to behold as her son was the contrary, thought Wilhelmine. She was a stout, vulgar, clumsy creature, enveloped in a large shawl of many colours which did not hide her obesity. The old termagant's face seemed all paint and large gold-rimmed spectacles, and peering eyes.
'A property that has been in the family why, since 'My great-grandfather the stay-maker's time, Sir George answered flippantly, as he emptied his glass. 'You know Selwyn's last upon that? It came by bones, and it is going by bones. 'God forbid! said the physician, rubbing his gold-rimmed glasses with an air of kindly vexation, not unmixed with perplexity.
When I had got over the surprise of doing business with and trying to give orders to a young woman of coldly, clerkly aspect intrenched behind gold-rimmed spectacles, I made inquiries concerning the pleasures of this independence. They liked it indeed they did. 'Twas the natural fate of almost all girls the recognized custom in America and I was a barbarian not to see it in that light.
"Yesterday, Doctor Ingenhauz, physician to the Emperor of Austria, came to consult him regarding the vaccination of the royal family of France. "In the evening, M. Robespierre, a slim, dark-skinned, studious young attorney from Arras, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, came for information regarding lightning rods, he having doubts of their legality.
Gledware snapped, as if just rousing himself from a kind of stupor. "'Well, what kind of pin? That was Kimball's question. "Then Mr. Gledware described the pin. He said it was a smooth-faced gold-rimmed pin of onyx set with pearls. And Kimball said boastingly that he would produce that pin, as he was a living man. And Mr. Gledware told him if he did, he'd go to witness against Brick Willock.
He took the little gold-rimmed cup she held out to him. "If you are going to be gone until next fall, I shall sell Rose," he announced gruffly. "But why? You might look a long time before you found another like her." "I shall sell her, anyhow. The horses, of course, are Father's; he paid for them. If you clear out, he may want to rent this place.
Peter, with whitened hair, gold-rimmed spectacles, a slouch hat and a fur coat, passed easily enough for an English maker of electrical instruments; while Sogrange, shabbier, and in ready-made American clothes, was transformed into a Canadian having some connection with the theatrical business. They plunged into the heart of New York life, and found the whole thing like a tonic.
Bax looked straight out to sea through her gold-rimmed spectacles, and went on "That must have been about all you had among the lot of you. I don't want to jaw, but I think you're a set of little bricks, and I must say so or expire on the sandy spot." There was a painful silence. H.O. looked, "There, what did I tell you?" at the rest of us. Then Alice said, "We others had nothing to do with it.
Ross's chief drawing-room they passed into an antedrawing-room, which was partly a passage and partly a conservatory. On the window side were some rows of Cape heaths, on the wall side some rows of blue and white plates; and it was one of the latter that was engaging the attention of two persons in this anteroom Colonel Ross himself, and a little old gentleman in gold-rimmed spectacles.
"A little one, sir, with a fancy face and two letters cut in a round spot on the back." "What letters were they?" said the General. "A Hee and a B, sir." "Eliezer Burr," said the Doctor loudly. "Hah!" and he took off his gold-rimmed spectacles, rubbed them, and began to beam. "Should you " began my uncle. "No, no, no, Seaborough; allow me," said the General. "My turn. I was coming to that.
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