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Miss Quincey had to take it in where it went out, and let it out where it went in, to pinch, pull, humour and propitiate it before it would consent to cling to her diminished figure. When all was done she wrapped it in tissue paper and hid it away in a drawer out of sight, for the very thought of it frightened her. But when next she went to look at it she hardly knew it again.
I brand that document as a forgery." Kennedy stood up and reached down into the open drawer on the right of his desk. From it he lifted the two machines I had seen him place there early in the evening. Gentlemen," he said, " this is the last scene of the play you are enacting. You see here on the desk an instrument that was invented many years ago, but has only recently become really practical.
He tried a number of keys to no account, and was thinking of giving up his researches for the day until he had procured a skeleton key, when at last the lock gave way. The drawer disclosed a large file of manuscript. Ernest paused for a moment to draw breath. The paper rustled under his nervous fingers. And there at last his eyes lit upon a bulky bundle that bore this legend: "Leontina, A Novel."
"Ah, but I will, my new bodice is so beautiful; all bright flowers, and my skirt is blue I know the Captain will like it and we are going to the South where all the girls wear bright colors I expect my dress will look very somber." Nana did not reply, she grumbled a little to herself, and Lucia pulled out the drawer of the dresser and very carefully took out her new possessions.
Over in the courthouse, Judge Lindman took from a drawer in his desk a thin ledger a duplicate of the one he had shown Corrigan and going to the rear of the room opened the door of an iron safe and stuck the ledger out of sight under a mass of legal papers. When Marchmont left Corrigan he went straight to the Plaza, where he ordered a lunch and ate heartily.
So he seized some bottles of soy from the kitchen shelf and then jumped into the big bottom drawer of a ladies' cabinet, and pulled it shut. "Who has been here? It looks like a rat's picnic." However, the workmen soon came and set everything to rights. Then they packed up the pretty things.
Daisy's flower seeds in neat little paper bags, all labelled, lay in a drawer of a three-legged table. Nan's herbs hung in bunches against the wall, filling the air with their aromatic breath. Tommy had a basket of thistle-down with the tiny seeds attached, for he meant to plant them next year, if they did not all fly away before that time.
Jean-Christophe, who had found all the letters in their places, did not insist farther. Shortly afterwards he caught Ernest in the act of thieving; the little beast was rummaging in the drawer of the chest in which Louisa kept her money. Jean-Christophe shook him, and took advantage of the opportunity to tell him everything that he had stored up against him.
Blewitt's, and me and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs. Frinstance, I can say this for MYSELF, there wasn't a paper in Deuceace's desk or drawer, not a bill, a note, or mimerandum, which I hadn't read as well as he: with Blewitt's it was the same me and his young man used to read 'em all.
The drawer in which the missing drawings were kept, and in which I saw them at ten o'clock this morning, is at the place marked D; it is a large chest of shallow drawers in which the plans lie flat." "I quite understand. Then there is the private room opposite. What of that?" "That is a sort of private sitting-room that I rarely use, except for business interviews of a very private nature.
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