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The blotter reads, in heavy simple fist, "disorderly conduct," a phrase which is almost as embracing as the word diplomacy, or society, or respectability. So far as my knowledge goes, there is no such a person as James Osborne.
The husband was already looking over his blotter. "April 26, 1872," he said. "26, here it is: 'Two leather trunks, patent safety-locks: Mme. Zelie Cadelle, 49 Rue du Cirque." Without too much affectation, M. de Tregars had drawn near to the shopkeeper, and was looking over his shoulder. "What is that," he asked, "written there, below the address?"
I'll fix it up all right. But I don't vant my place down on de blotter. Who vas it Jimmie?" The girl began to cry, and gulped the glass of whiskey on the table as she finally yielded to the tug of the sergeant. "Yes, it's Jimmie. An' he wasn't doin' a ting. Dese rookies is always makin' trouble fer me." She sobbed hysterically as the sergeant walked her out.
When the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was crumbling away.
Quite unconsciously Lidgerwood picked up a pencil and began adding more squares to the miniature checker-board on his desk blotter.
His only answer was a vacant stare at the pit of my stomach, followed by a slow scratch-scratching on the police blotter. In fact our arrest on that occasion was rather a Jack Rose affair; that is to say, it started by our being invited to headquarters, suspicious but not certain of our status until we finally landed behind the iron doors.
He indicated by a little gesture three bundles of envelopes, bound by rubber bands, on the corner of his blotter. "Hodder," he said, "see what a lot of trouble you have made for me in my old age! All those are about you." The rector's expression could not have been deemed stern, but it had met the bishop's look unflinchingly.
I imagine we will have an interesting half-hour when they find out that the deal is off." The formalities of payment were soon over with, and the moment they were completed, Hedin despatched a messenger with a telegram to his employer. When John McNabb received the message he grinned broadly, and for several minutes sat at his desk and stabbed at his blotter with his pencil point.
"How did you find out he had written the cheque?" "I suspected something after he'd gone and looked for his cheque-book. He'd torn out a form, but hadn't filled up the tab. Bob's silly when he's cunning and didn't think about his blotter. The top sheet was nearly clean and I read what he'd written, in a looking-glass." "Why did he give Wilkinson the money?"
"Not if their poverty is pretence." "Oh, but mine isn't. Really. See. Here is my purse. Look for yourself. That's all I shall have till the first of the month." She gave Peter her purse. He was still sitting at his desk, and he very deliberately proceeded to empty the contents out on his blotter. He handled each article.
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