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I worked very hard over his case, and he went off, without so much as giving me a little souvenir a pin or a ring, or a trifle of that kind seal, for instance." "What could you expect from one of those Germans, sir?" said Andrew contemptuously. "Yes, what indeed!" said the doctor, taking snuff, and looking curiously at Frank. "Bad habit this, young man. Don't you follow my example.
"I'm wondering hard enough myself," put in Tunis pointedly. "I swan!" murmured Cap'n Ira reflectively. He carefully lowered the hammer of the pistol, his cane stuck upright in the sand before him. Then he put the weapon back in the inside pocket of his coat. He tapped the knob of his cane for a pinch of snuff before he said another word.
Fancy, if public characters had to learn to snuff a practice happily abandoned because they occasionally received gifts of enamelled snuffboxes from foreign potentates! But there are subtler sides to this subject, and it is of these I fain would speak.
He replied very offhand, as was his manner at such times: "Blicke vows that Chartersea and Lewis have qualified for the College of Surgeons," says he. "They are both born anatomists. "Look you, Jack," said I, "I am not deceived. You have no right to be here, and you know it." "Tush!" answered his Lordship; "I am as well as you." And he took snuff to prove the assertion.
"I understand." "But be careful very careful." "I will." They sat down upon the bench toward which they had been headed. "I had thought of seeing Mr. Phelps to-day, and asking him to have you released." "It would be useless," he said. "I cannot go without the snuff box." "Shall I send word to our friends in Brussels?" she asked. "How can you do that?"
Last night an old man lay there and died close to me. He died of cancer, and they didn't even put a screen round him. All the time he lay there and stared at me! But in a few days I shall be able to go out. Then there'll be something to be paid otherwise the business will come before the Poor Law guardians, and then they'll begin to snuff around and I've told them fibs, Pelle!
Seltz might still have the snuff box in his possession, and the man with the satchel be merely a harmless individual who used rice powder after shaving. He almost reproached himself for having wasted so much time, and hurried along through Piccadilly Circus, in a state of considerable perplexity. As he came up to the shop, he saw Dufrenne standing before the window, his eyes glued to the pane.
Three of the American skippers had been quartered on the gunroom mess, and they were all at table. Snuff, snuff, smelled one, and another sniffled, "Gunpowder, I guess, and in a state of ignition." "Will you not send for the gunner, sir?" said the third. Splinter did not like it, I saw, and this quailed me. The captain's bell rang. "What smell of brimstone is that, steward?"
"How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's carpenter." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more developed." "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?"
"And quite right," said the doctor, taking out his box, and helping himself to a liberal pinch of snuff. "Nice job for a man like me to have to do all I can to save the life of a savage who did all he could to murder one of my greatest friends. There, run back and tell him to make his mind easy about my lord here. I won't let him die, and as soon as I can I'll come and see to his arm."
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