He was so busy that he was quite excited, and had been obliged to throw his white fur coat and cap aside, and he was at work in his red waistcoat.

Mr. Van Torp looked very bored as he said this, and he stared stonily at the pink and green waistcoat which his visitor's unfastened coat exposed to view.

The millionaire's tone did not change in the least, and he continued to admire the waistcoat.

Thereupon Mr. Van Torp turned at last from the contemplation of the waistcoat and looked out of the bay-window at the distant trees, as if he were excessively weary of Logotheti's talk.

he inquired, buttoning his coat over the wonderful waistcoat.

A man in a light grey suit, the waistcoat of which had apparently abandoned its efforts to compass his girth, with a broad, pink, good-humoured face, beardless and bland, flaxen hair streaked here and there with grey, was seated in the vacant place.

He pulled down his waistcoat, finished off a glass of wine, and leaned forward.

Presently a special quotation interested him; he wished to make a note of it, took out a pencil from his waistcoat pocket, and seeing a clean piece of paste-board on the floor, he picked it up, and scribbled on it the memorandum, which he wished to keep.

And Mr. Roundjacket, inserting one thumb into the pocket of his long waistcoat, pointed with the ruler to Verty's costume.

At last he placed the end of his ruler upon his waistcoat, and said, mysteriously: "Do you see me?" "Yes," replied Verty.

He smoothed a crease out of his waistcoat and tried again.

He staggered back with the basket, painfully conscious all the while that it was creasing his waistcoat, and dumped it down on the study floor.

" "I guessed that that was the reason, sir," sighed Psmith, replacing the eyeglass in his waistcoat pocket.

He slipped his fingers alongside her throat to test her temperature, at the same time drawing a thermometer from his waistcoat pocket.

The gobernadorcillo of the guild of mestizos, who was seated on the opposite bench, as he had bunions, and could not cross his legs on account of his obesity, spread his legs wide apart to expose a plain waistcoat adorned with a beautiful gold chain set with diamonds.

"Well?" asked the man with the soft-pleated shirt-front and white waistcoat smeared with cigarette-ash.

With him came also by the morning stage Don Sanchez, mighty fine in a new head, of the latest mode, and a figured silk coat and waistcoat.

Why don't you get on with that fancy waistcoat you are doing for me?" Before Miss Kybird could deny all knowledge of the article in question her sorely tried swain created a diversion by rising.

"That will taste very nice," said he; "but, before I take a bite, I will just finish this waistcoat."

He appeared at the first representation of Irene in a scarlet waistcoat laced with gold; and on one of his first interviews with Goldsmith he took the trouble to array himself decently, because Goldsmith was reported to have justified slovenly habits by the precedent of the leader of his craft.

West hesitated long over a blue-checked waistcoat and at length sighed and left it out.

His shoulders were hollowed by the usual droop, and his rusty black waistcoat showed the same creased concavity at the waist, the same flabby prominence below.

"Does it cost anything like that to buy your daughter's dresses?" A subterranean chuckle agitated the lower folds of Mr. Spragg's waistcoat.

Mr. Spragg heard her out in silence, pulling at his beard with one sallow wrinkled hand, while the other dragged down the armhole of his waistcoat.

He paused a moment, twisting his fingers about the heavy gold watch-chain that crossed his waistcoat.