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The twinkle was slowly coming back to Diana's eyes, and the dimples to the corners of her mouth. The effect was like sunshine bursting through a rain-cloud. "I guess I'll try if I can remember anything to startle you, if you're out for sensations. It's a kind of literary society, isn't it? Can you lend me a pencil, please, and some waste paper? I don't know what I've done with my blotter. Thanks!
She doesn't play many games and I don't see very much of her, but you remember I told you how clever she was as Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night. She acts awfully well and she just loves doing it. And she's always getting frightfully fond of somebody and feeling badly if they don't like her." Judith sat rolling her pen absent-mindedly up and down her blotter as the picture of Genevieve filled her mind.
Any one who had taken the trouble to consult the station house blotter would have found that there was less violence that summer than ever before and this while twenty thousand men were out of work, and with nothing to do all day but brood upon bitter wrongs.
Who knows but that, like sergeants, the blotter may be sometimes mistaken? "To-morrow it will come," Godfrey Krueger had said that night to his landlord. "To-morrow it will surely come, and then I shall have money. Soon I shall be rich, richer than you can think."
Although," he continued, gazing at the blotter before him, "I could have wished that this criticism might have been made first to me, rather than have reached me indirectly, I am grateful for it at any time and welcome this opportunity for discussing it." The air had become electrified.
I insist upon absolute silence. You understand?" She nodded. "And one thing more," Mr. Clarke added. "I forbid any further communication between you and Mac. He is not coming home at Christmas, and we are thinking of sending him abroad in June. I propose to keep him away from here for the next two or three years." Nance fingered the blotter on the table absently.
Her pen went scratching in a mad zigzag across the neat page and deposited a big tear of red ink where it suddenly stopped. "Oh, I'm sorry," exclaimed Bea repentantly, for she was indeed the culprit; "it's horrid to be heedless on purpose. I didn't know it would really do any harm." Berta glanced up quickly from her blotter.
Reilly, a huge lout of a fellow with a lowering countenance, ventured to expostulate. "Ye want to be careful of him. He's quicker'n chain lightning." His chief exploded with low-voiced fury. "When I ask your advice, give it, you fat-brained son of a brand blotter. Until then padlock that mouth of yours. Vamos."
Perhaps you have seen the blotter we got out, with a flash-light interior of the spring-house on it, and me handing the old doctor a glass of mineral water, and wearing the embroidered linen waist that Miss Patty Jennings gave me that winter. The blotters were a great success.
Then he set down the pen upon a blotter, went to his door, and opened it, looking out at her as she came. "Well, dearie, you seem to be feeling pretty good," he said. "What you been doing?" "Just sitting out on the front steps, papa." "All alone, I suppose." "No. Mr. Russell called." "Oh, he did?" Adams pretended to be surprised.
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