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When I want to take up any special business I shut one drawer and open another. None of them ever get mixed, and never does this incommode me or fatigue me. If I feel sleepy I shut all the drawers and go to sleep." Never has brain so disciplined and under such control been seen, one so ready at all times for any task, so capable of immediate and absolute concentration.
"You don't mean to tell me that you've come across it at last!" the son exclaimed. "It was the strangest thing imaginable!" the old man went on. "Jan of Ruffluck came over here one morning and told me he knew for a certainty that the note was in the secret drawer of my cedar chest. He had seen me take it out in a dream, he said." "But you must have looked there?"
Could any one understand the same man at once miserly-economical and madly-prodigal, storming when his wife spent a few cents, and robbing to supply the expenses of an adventuress, and collecting in the same drawer the jeweler's accounts and the butcher's bills? "It is the climax of absurdity," murmured good M. Desormeaux. Maxence fairly shook with wrath. Mlle. Gilberte was weeping. Mme.
This arrangement the Dead Man effected with the utmost rapidity and then forcing open a bureau which stood in the parlor, he took from the drawer various articles of value, jewelry, &c., and a pocket-book containing a considerable sum of money forgetting, in his blind stupidity, that the circumstances of a robbery having taken place, would destroy the impression that the unfortunate old lady had come to her death voluntarily by her own hands.
He opened a drawer. "Any of these look like him?" He passed to Christopher a handful of pictures. "There he is," cried the lad presently, choosing one out of the lot. "There he is! Only he didn't have his glasses on." "I fancy he isn't dependent on them all the time," chuckled the inspector. "Well done, my boy. Yes, that's Tony when he's dressed up.
"I have not told . . . I thought you might have acted from principle in those sad days, even " "You are kind to concede that much. However, to the present. I was able to destroy my few papers before I became so weak . . . But in the drawer there you will find some pieces of linen clothing only two or three marked with initials that may be recognized. Will you rip them out with a penknife?"
"I should think that would cure anybody," cried Nan, who loved her liberty above all things. "It did cure me, and I think it will you, so I am going to try it," said Mrs. Jo, suddenly taking a ball of strong twine out of a drawer in her work-table. Nan looked as if she was decidedly getting the worst of the argument now, and sat feeling much crestfallen while Mrs.
"No, not yet. Perhaps never." "Well, well...." "Madame, we must move on again," interrupted Julien. "We have a long way to go before night." The woman rose, and turning to a drawer, pulled out a heap of soiled papers, bills and letters. "Wait," she said, "wait an instant!" Turning them over she sought and found a couple of old sheets pinned together, and unpinning them she handed one to Fanny.
It is not a direct promise to pay; but it is an undertaking, by the drawer, that the drawee shall accept and pay; and the drawer is answerable only when the drawee fails to pay. A check payable to bearer passes by delivery; and the bearer may sue on it as on an inland bill of exchange.
Ella wept over the portrait and secured it in her private drawer; the lock of hair she tied with white ribbon and put in her bosom, whence she drew it and kissed it every now and then in some unobserved nook. 'What's the matter? said her husband, looking up from his newspaper on one of these occasions. 'Crying over something? A lock of hair? Whose is it? 'He's dead! she murmured. 'Who?
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