CHAPTER XXVIII Bruce Returns 'Never, Edith!' exclaimed Vincy, fixing his eyeglass in his eye, and opening his mouth in astonishment.

The messenger from the legation was a youngish man, with waxed moustache and wearing an eyeglass.

He had studied various details with a peculiar care, suffered a barber to take summary measures with his overlong black hair, had accustomed himself to the use of an eyeglass, which hung around his neck by a thin, black ribbon.

"Private theatricals," the lively Lizzie called this "taking off," as Becky strutted and minced, with her chin up, her dress lifted in one hand, while with the other she held a pair of scissors for an eyeglass, and peered through the bows at a piece of cloth, which she picked and pecked and commented upon in fine-lady fashion,"just like the swells," Lizzie declared.

" "Do you know," observed Carr, twirling his eyeglass and twisting his mustache, "that I'm beginning not to care what my family think!...

Mr. Carr nodded, shuddered, dashed the unmanly moisture from his eyeglass.

A watch and chainthe small pocket articles which every man carrieskeys, a monocle eyeglass, a purse full of gold, loose silver, a note-case containing a considerable sum in bank-notes, some English, some foreign, letters and papers, a pocket diarythese were all.

" He replaced the eyeglass, and walked up and down the room for a few moments, as though he were pacing a quarter-deck.

Psmith was regarding Adair through his eyeglass with pain and surprise.

Jones's eyeglass would drop out of his eye because he would know it only made him look foolish, Brown would see the ugliness of his cant, and Robinson would sorry that he had been born a bully and as prickly as a hedgehog.

Most of us, too, I think, will agree that, if vanity is to be taxed, the wearing of an eyeglass cannot be overlooked.

There are some people, it is true, who wear an eyeglass naturally and unaffectedly, as though they were really born with it and had forgotten that it was there.

I saw a lady in a bus the other day who used an eyeglass and yet carried it so well, with such simple propriety and naturalness, that you could not feel that there was any vanity in the matter.

His remark, when Chamberlain made his first appearance in the House, that "at least he wore his eyeglass like a gentleman," showed that he knew that, in general, it was an affectation.

I hope Sir Edward Clarke will agree that £5 is a reasonable tariff for an eyeglass.

He carried a jaunty sort of a stick, with a large pair of rusty tassels to it; and an eyeglass hung outside his coatfor ornament, I afterwards found, as he very seldom looked through it, and couldn't see anything when he did. Arrived at his house in Windsor Terracewhich, I noticed, was shabby, like himself, but also, like himself, made all the show it couldhe presented me to Mrs. Micawber, a thin and faded lady, not at all young.

In the better light he could see no resemblance between the wood carver and this gentleman with his smart clothes, his glossy silk hat, and his haughty eyeglass.

She had a way of looking at me through her eyeglass till she put me out of countenance, and then smiling in a sweet, satisfied manner, and laying down her glass.

Lord Deppingham, a slow and cumbersome young man, stood by nervously fingering his eyeglass.

" "I say, Browne," burst out Deppingham, irrelevantly, his eyeglass clenched in the tight grasp of a perplexed frown, "would you mind telling me that story about the bishop and the door bell again?" Britt laughed hoarsely, his chubby figure shivering with emotion.

" Deppingham put his eyeglass in more firmly and stared at his companion, not knowing whether to take the remark as a jest or to begin to look for signs of mental collapse.

Resting the photograph on the poor hand half paralyzed, he put on his eyeglass with the right, and then holding the likeness at a longer or shorter distance he began to say: "But for certain details, the face is like one of those Ary-Schaeffer liked to paint.

" Here he fumbled with his eyeglass, and then added: "Judging by the face, or rather by the photograph (sometimes one makes mistakes, but I have had some practice), hers is a thoroughly loyal nature.

Then Old Age said again, Come, let us walk down the street together,and offered me a cane, an eyeglass, a tippet, and a pair of over-shoes.

" "I am sure you gave him good counsel," said the Duke, screwing his eyeglass which he wore on a long black ribbon into his whimsical old blue eye.