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'And these idiotic open waistcoats – it's impossible!'
The young men wore long-waisted loose uniforms wide across the shoulders with white waistcoats, or else were in uniforms with black collars embroidered with laurel leaves – the emblem of the Ministry of Justice.
The chins of the other members of the jury went slowly up and down in their waistcoats in sign of approval.
The young beaux were strutting about in the pit, showing in the opening of their waistcoats their pink or applegreen cravats, and Madame Bovary from above admired them leaning on their canes with golden knobs in the open palm of their yellow gloves.
This was a tall man, extremely thin and wearing three or four waistcoats.
'Monsieur has the floor,' he said, indicating the personage with the fatherly air, who was wearing three or four waistcoats.
Julien felt that it would have been more natural to call him the gentleman with the waistcoats.
(Compare the _Gazette des Tribunaux_. )The man with the waistcoats and the fatherly air (he was a Bishop, perhaps), smiled often, and then his eyes, between their tremulous lids, assumed a strange brilliance and an expression less undecided than was his wont.
After several phrases of morality and indulgent philosophy, the man with the waistcoats said:'Noble England, guided by a great man, the immortal Pitt, spent forty thousand million francs in destroying the Revolution.
'Continue,' he said to the man with the waistcoats.
While the candles were being changed: 'Heaven knows what that fellow is going to say to the King!' the man with the waistcoats murmured to his neighbour.
'I would bet,' said the man with the waistcoats, 'that the General is running after the Minister; he is going to make his excuses for being found here, and pretend that he is our leader.'
Oh, my young friend, who else could have resisted the pleading of sixteen of our fairest sisters, and withstood their exhortations to subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket-handkerchiefs?''What's a moral pocket-ankercher?' said Sam; 'I never see one o' them articles o' furniter.'
Both gentlemen had very open waistcoats and very rolling collars, and very small boots, and very big rings, and very little watches, and very large guard-chains, and symmetrical inexpressibles, and scented pocket-handkerchiefs.'I never bet half a dozen!' said the other gentleman.
"But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble."
Gradually we had been obliged to throw aside our coats and waistcoats, the lightest covering became uncomfortable and even painful.
Within, a week St. James's Street and the Mall will be full of nankeen waistcoats.
It is seven-and-forty years since I looked upon that circle of dandies, and where, now, are their dainty little hats, their wonderful waistcoats, and their boots, in which one could arrange one's cravat?
The engineer's condition would, therefore, have been bad enough, if his companions had not carefully covered him with their coats and waistcoats.
He found young men's costumes of days long gone by, frock coats with high velvet collars, dainty waistcoats cut very open, interminable white cravats, and patent-leather shoes dating from the beginning of the century.
Upon these views I began to consider about putting the few rags I had, which I called clothes, into some order; I had worn out all the waistcoats I had, and my business was now to try if I could not make jackets out of the great watch-coats which I had by me, and with such other materials as I had; so I set to work, tailoring, or rather, indeed, botching, for I made most piteous work of it.
However, I made shift to make two or three new waistcoats, which I hoped would serve me a great while: as for breeches or drawers, I made but a very sorry shift indeed till afterwards.
I'll be married in this lilac gingham: you may make a dressing-gown for yourself out of the pearl-grey silk, and an infinite series of waistcoats out of the black satin."