'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans takes the knife, sticks it in his
sleeve, and goes home.
"That's a true friend!" said Helene beaming, and again touching Bilibin's
sleeve. "But I love them, you know, and don't want to distress either of them.
Hilda smiled up at him beautifully and put her hand on his
sleeve. "Oh, Bartley!
So I washed it nicely, and we fussed and planned, but it came short by half of one
sleeve. I gave it up, but Kit went to work and matched every scrap that was left so neatly that she got out the half
sleeve, put it on the under side, and no one was the wiser.
"I never seed dat ar,--it must a got caught in my
sleeve. Miss Feeley must have left it on the bed, and it got caught in the clothes, and so got in my
sleeve."
I reached for the monk's
sleeve, in considerable excitement, and asked him what day of the month it was.
"But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if--if you'd made just one of them with puffed
sleeves. Puffed
sleeves are so fashionable now.
And to think that poor old Geppetto sat at home in his shirt
sleeves, shivering with cold, having sold his coat to buy that little book for his son!
She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn
sleeves above the wrists.
"Your career of mischief is at an end," said the Retraction, drawing his club, rolling up his
sleeves, and spitting on his hands.
If ancestry is worth anything it should at least teach us to go about without pinning our hearts upon our
sleeves."
Pip," said he, with his hands still in the
sleeves, "I have probably done the most I can do; but if I can ever do more - from a Walworth point of view, and in a strictly private and personal capacity - I shall be glad to do it.
He insisted on taking Philip into a room on the first floor, where a man in shirt
sleeves, a blousy woman, and three children were having their Sunday dinner.
Drop the hooks." He shook each arm, and from under each of the fluffy lace cuffs fell out an iron hook fast to a thin cable of steel that evidently ran up her
sleeves. "Not that way!
"That'll give you two more dresses, with plenty for new
sleeves, and to patch and let down with, an' be more economical."
