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Prompt as he generally was, he could say nothing: he knew what was coming next. She spoke while still she stooped. "When you come again," she said, "will you kindly let me know how much I am in your debt?" As she ended she rose and stood before him, but she looked no higher than his shirt-studs. She was ashamed to speak of her indebtedness as an amount that could be reckoned.
Musadieu was tall and very thin; he wore a white waistcoat and little diamond shirt-studs; he spoke without gestures, with a correct air which allowed him to say the daring things which he took delight in uttering. He was very near-sighted, and appeared, notwithstanding his eye-glass, never to see anyone; and when he sat down his whole frame seemed to accommodate itself to the shape of the chair.
Amusing isn't it? that it should have been my pocket my pocket! Fortunately I have stacks of clothes and some good pearl shirt-studs, and I continue to present a respectable appearance. I shall always do that, I think. I don't like the idea of the pawn-shop and the dropping down one degree at a time.
He will have his window with a view of the sunset; there is his fire, his warmed linen, and his shirt-studs; his bath, his choice of a dozen things he will or will not wear; the landlord's or host's menu is up against the looking-glass, and the extremely handsome miniature likeness of his wife, who is in the madhouse, by a celebrated painter, I forget his name.
I never dine with him but I fancy he ought to be at the sideboard. Here comes that insufferable little old Smee. How do you do, Mr. Smee?" Mr. Smee smiles his sweetest smile. With his rings, diamond shirt-studs, and red velvet waistcoat, there are few more elaborate middle-aged bucks than Alfred Smee. "How do you do, my dear lord?" cries the bland one.
She said nothing of the shirt-studs, but he would understand that. As for the lock of hair doubtless it had been burned. Cecilia said but little in answer to this. She would not as yet look upon the matter as Florence looked at it, and as Theodore did also. Harry was to be back in town on Thursday morning. He could not, probably, be seen or heard of on that day, because of his visit to Lady Ongar.
"Suakim is built of madrepore," he replied to the above question; "very curious. Houses and mosques all of the same materials as these reefs we are now coming to." "Madrepore why, that is a sort of coral isn't it?" "Yes, it is coral." "That's queer though. My shirt-studs are made of coral; fancy a town built of shirt-studs!"
"Shirt-studs are quite a secondary use of the article; the principal being to help babies cut their teeth. Have you got your coral still, Green?" Green was a very young subaltern, who had not been to a public school, and was somewhat easily imposed upon. "No," he said; "at least not here. It is somewhere at home, I believe." "That is right; you will want it when you come to cut your wisdom teeth.
There were what used to be called 'dressy' Snobs: Jimmy, who might be seen at five o'clock elaborately rigged out, with a camellia in his button-hole, glazed boots, and fresh kid-gloves twice a day; Jessamy, who was conspicuous for his 'jewellery, a young donkey, glittering all over with chains, rings, and shirt-studs; Jacky, who rode every day solemnly on the Blenheim Road, in pumps and white silk stockings, with his hair curled, all three of whom flattered themselves they gave laws to the University about dress all three most odious varieties of Snobs.
She noticed his skin was faintly browned with the sun, but was otherwise as fine as a child's finer than most children's. And now she could see that three most wonderful pearls were his shirt-studs. He got out on the second floor, one beneath them, and said, "Pardon," as he passed, but not as a French word, nor yet as if it were English.
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