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The sixth letter, from its external appearance, might readily have been of no greater interest than the other five, and yet, something intangible about it caused her to pause for a moment before inserting the point of the knife beneath the flap of the envelope. It was a large envelope, square, formal-looking. The address upon it was typewritten.
There were some very formal-looking New Yorkers next us. "No, I won't," she whispered. "But I'm so happy I feel as though I should like to tell everyone." "There's no need," I answered smiling. "Oh, Hugh, I don't want to disgrace you!" she exclaimed, in real alarm. "Otherwise, so far as I am concerned, I shouldn't care who knew." People smiled at her. Women came up and took her hands.
We drew up before a formal-looking, old-fashioned house, with piazzas to the two stories, each bordered with a good extent of unquestionably modern gutter. The staple growth of the place, in which the house was set, like the centre of an antique breastpin, seemed to lie in the shrub called box.
He put his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, and, followed by the others, strolled into the police-station as if he were dropping in on business of trifling importance. And there was nothing to be seen there which betokened that a drama of life and death was being constructed in that formal-looking place of neutral-coloured walls, precise furniture, and atmosphere of repression.
I'll bet some of them were nipped, too, for the market went up without warning yes, by George! bounced like a rubber ball." Clyde looked up from a letter which enclosed a formal-looking statement. "What would send it up?" "Buyers in excess of sellers in other words, demand in excess of supply," Wade responded. "That's on the face of it. Probably not half a dozen men know the inside.
Through the whole journey she had been struggling to restrain her sobs so that her maid should neither hear nor see them. "Don't mind me, Mr. Green; I am only tired, so tired," she said as she got into the carriage which he had brought. He had with him a long, formal-looking letter addressed to herself. But she was too weary to open it that night.
On the whole it seemed a pretty safe investment and the formal-looking contract would tend to increase the sense of obligation upon the contracting party of the first part. Nor did my forecast of the probabilities prove at all wide of the mark.
In his left hand the Secretary held a formal-looking paper with which he was quietly tapping the table in front of him as though keeping time to his soundless and imaginary ditty. With his chin well down, he was looking from under his heavy eyebrows with eyes that were dangerously cold.
He was about to burst out with an indignant word, when Charlie, alarmed by his small brother's excited looks, blurted out their troubles at once, in order to head off the protest that he expected from Sandy. The lad was silent. "Eh? what's that?" asked the formal-looking merchant. "Busted? And away from home? Why, certainly, my lads. How much do you need?" And he opened his pocket-book at once.
Polke?" demanded Gabriel. Polke produced a formal-looking document and held it before the banker's eyes. "Merely to show you that, Mr. Chestermarke," he answered. "That's a search-warrant, sir! It empowers me and Mr. Starmidge here to search but I needn't read it to you, Mr. Chestermarke, I think. I suppose we can go into the house now?"
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