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Viewed in a strong light, the three articles took on real significance. The spectacles I fancied were Miss Emily's. They were, to all appearances, the duplicates of those on her tidy bedside stand. But the handkerchief was not hers. Even without the scent, which had left it, but clung obstinately to the pages of the book, I knew it was not hers. It was florid, embroidered, and cheap.
Our own language possesses great advantages in this respect; for being partly derived from the Teutonic, and partly from the Latin, we have a large number of duplicates from the two sources, which are, for the most part, though not universally, slightly varied in their meaning.
We had had a fixed location up to that time, and I had not yet broken loose from it, but I numbered them according to the best light I had, though in a very short time I saw that with the increased number of duplicates we had to buy, only a movable location was of the least practical use.
"The King of Abyssinia never duplicates a letter." "When," supplemented Harleston, "it has been carelessly lost in a cab." "Just so. Therefore " "I repeat that I have not got the articles," said Harleston, a bit wearily, "nor are they in my apartment. You have been misinformed. I find I am getting drowsy this thing is not as absorbing as I had thought it would be.
The first course was boiled: it consisted of boiled beef, boiled mutton, boiled hams, boiled tongues, boiled bacon, boiled fowls, boiled turkeys, boiled sausages, boiled cabbages, boiled potatoes, and boiled carrots. Duplicates of each were ranged in opposition, until the table groaned with its superincumbent weight. All were cut up, placed in one dish, and handed round to the guests.
Did it electrify his hearers? Perhaps. Even the senator was so choked with laughter that he was forced to cast loose one of the buttons which held on his turn-down collar, and Farrar retired into the woods. But the gravity of Mr. Cooke's countenance remained serene. "Old man," he said to the Celebrity, "you'll have to learn the price of potatoes now. Here are Mr. Drew's duplicates; try 'em on."
All I can say is that here is an example of a large class, duplicates of indispensable and common works, which the abbey libraries possessed in great numbers, and often parted with, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to colleges and private purchasers. Next we take out a thin folio written on paper.
A nod and a gesture whisked a couple of attentive waiters to the table, and in the twinkling of an eye even an American eye a place was laid for the Prince, with duplicates of all our abortive wine glasses. "Aha, my fine fellow, you are no friend of cold water," I said to myself in savage glee, as I acknowledged with a bow Mrs. Kidder's elaborate introduction.
Longworth then looked over the papers, took a note of some things mentioned in the option, and finally said: 'I wish you would get these papers copied for me, I suppose you have someone in the office who can do it? 'Yes. 'Then just have duplicates made of each of them. Good-morning, Mr. Wentworth. Wentworth mused for a few moments over the unexpected turn affairs had taken.
The twenty-five duplicates were all joined to the original, so that there was ample opportunity to compare the movements. "Well, gov'nor, which film was that?" asked the operator. "Not A it was B or C!" "Correct. How'd you guess it? Which is this one?" As he adjusted another roll of film in the projector, Shirley turned to the manager sitting at his side. "Mr.
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