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Ned Newton, listening at the auxiliary telephone heard the man, to whom Mrs. Damon was dictating her message to her husband, utter an exclamation of impatience. "I'm afraid I can't take down any more," he called. "That is enough. Now you listen. I want you to send me those papers." "And I am willing to," went on Mrs. Damon, while Ned listened to the talk, the phonograph faithfully recording it.
When the report was completed, Laurent experienced lively joy, which penetrated his being like new life. From the moment his victim had buried his teeth in his neck, he had been as if stiffened, acting mechanically, according to a plan arranged long in advance. The instinct of self-preservation alone impelled him, dictating to him his words, affording him advice as to his gestures.
Astor flourished at that precise time when the traders and landowners, flushed with revenues, reached out for the creation and control of the highly important business of professionally dealing in money, and of dictating, personally and directly, what the supply of the people's money should be. This signalized the next step in the aggrandizement of individual fortunes.
Other men quietly arranged the completed papers in the shelves of a bookcase, partly filled with books bound in black. Notwithstanding the number of persons assembled in the room, one might have heard the movements of the wings of a fly. The only interruption to the silence was the sound of pens rapidly gliding over paper, and a shrill voice dictating, stopping every now and then to cough.
"You needn't think that your million gives you the privilege of dictating to all of your guests." "Peggy, how can you," he interjected. She went on ruthlessly. "If my conduct interferes with your highness's pleasure I can easily join the Prestons in Paris."
In the first flush of liberty he took to staying away from school, the education thus lost being only partially atoned for by a grown-up style of composition engendered by dictating excuses to the easy-going Mrs. Kingdom. At seventeen he learnt, somewhat to his surprise, that his education was finished.
By the one, he was prevented from imagining the cruelties which the French have committed; by the other, the extreme despotism which they endure. April 20, 1793. Before these halcyon days of freedom, the supremacy of Paris was little felt in the provinces, except in dictating a new fashion in dress, an improvement in the art of cookery, or the invention of a minuet.
Miss Dunross laid down her pen, and slowly turned her head to look at me. "Surely you have something more to add to your letter?" she said. "Certainly," I answered. "I don't know what is the matter with me. The effort of dictating seems to be beyond my power this evening." "Can I help you?" she asked. I gladly accepted the suggestion.
The spectacle of anointed monarchs thus far humbling themselves to the people of rebellion dictating terms, instead of writhing in dust at the foot of the throne was something new in history. The heavens and earth might soon be expected to pass away, now that such a catastrophe was occurring. The King of France had also been kept in ignorance of these events.
But gradually the truth dawns on him that, while he sits weaving plans and dictating despatches he sent off six in the small hours of October 12th Blücher and Schwarzenberg are drawing near to Leipzig.
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