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"Mamma, I have something to to tell you." Mrs. Maitland signed her name, put her pen behind her ear, flung a blotter down on the heavily written page, and rubbed her fist over it. "Well?" she said cheerfully; and glanced up at her stepdaughter over her steel-rimmed spectacles, with kind eyes; "what are you awake for, at this hour?"
He had a habit of coming to my study in the morning, sitting quietly by my side or on the table for hours, watching the pen run over the paper, occasionally swinging his tail round for a blotter, and then going to sleep among the papers by the inkstand. Or, more rarely, he would watch the writing from a perch on my shoulder.
There was a table covered with reviews and magazines in neat piles, and a lamp so shaded as to throw its light only on the white blotter of the pad. Two easy chairs, covered with flowered chintz, were ranged before the fire, in one of which I sank, much bewildered, upon being urged to do so. I utterly failed to recognize "Alonzo" in this new atmosphere.
I to tell the truth if I had not rigorously drilled her she might have become a trifle tiresome; I don't mean precisely frumpy but one of those earnest young things whose intellectual conversation becomes a visitation one of the wants-to-know-for-the-sake-of-knowledge sort a dreadful human blotter!
What I had to take while he had me 'hands up' is more than I'll take from any living man again." As in other moments of stress and perplexity, Lidgerwood was absently marking little pencil squares on his desk blotter. "I wouldn't get down to the desert level, if I were you, Mac," he said thoughtfully. "I'm down there right now, in self-defence," was the sober rejoinder.
O' course we know what your father would have done if he hadn't been drinking. He's straight as a string, even if he does go off like powder. But when a man's making a blue blotter of himself, things don't look the same to him. Anyhow he went in." "He didn't. I can prove he didn't," burst from Melissy's lips. "Be glad to hear your proof later. He ce'tainly planned the hold-up.
No price list, no price list, a price-list, a price and list and so collected, so collected pipe, all one cooler, a little apple needs a hose a little nose is colored, a little apple and a chest, a pig is in the sneezing, no blotter, raised ahead. I promise that there is that. The hour when the seal up shows slobber. Does this mean goat. It does yes.
Marianne walked direct to the table on which the paper was symmetrically arranged in a stationery rack, and quickly seating herself, she laid her muff down, half-raised her little veil, and beat a tattoo with her tiny hand on the little black leather blotter before her, then taking off her gloves, she took at random some sheets of paper and some envelopes bearing the address of the establishment on the corners.
She was more dirty and bedraggled than she had ever been, but the charm of her manner was unchanged and, suspended about her neck, she wore a policeman's button. "One of the men brought her in here at ten o'clock last night," the man behind the blotter informed Miss Bailey, while Mrs. Aaronsohn showered abuse and caress upon the wanderer.
"I thought of a blotter," said Patty, "but I know it would only be left lying about in the surgery. Father has a stylo. pen, and hardly ever needs blotting-paper. The little ones give him useful things boxes of matches, and railway guides, and cakes of soap." "Cakes of soap!" laughed Muriel. "Yes, why not? They can't think of anything else to buy. But I wanted something nicer.
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