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A half-sheet of rather dirty paper." "Where is it now?" "I don't know. In Mark's pocket, I expect." "Ah!" He pulled at his beard. "Well, we'll come to that. Can you remember what it said?" "As far as I remember, something like this: 'Mark, your loving brother is coming to see you to-morrow, all the way from Australia.
To her amazement, she beheld Dora Dundas enter. The girl carried in her hand a piece of paper. Her face was pale, her eyes were red with weeping, and her bearing generally was subdued. The message in her hand was a crumpled half-sheet of note-paper, in the miser's own handwriting, short and dramatic in its appeal: "Come to me. I am dying." "Trimmer, I must see my father at once," cried Mrs.
George sends you his love; we are both very well. And Nollie is looking splendid still, after her harvest work. All, all my love, Dad dear. Is there anything we can get, and send you? Do take care of your blessed self, and don't grieve about Nollie. A half-sheet of paper fluttered down; he picked it up from among the parched fibre of dead palm-leaves. "I've done it. Forgive me I'm so happy.
As good luck would have it, our butter came down wrapped in a half-sheet of your last volume of poems, containing my old favorites, 'Modern Greece, and the 'Ode to a Deserted Churn. These I read aloud several times to the miners, and their longing to return sooner to a world where they could get the rest of the volume became so strong, that, as I was about to begin my fifth reading, they consented to an expedient of escape which I had already proposed once or twice in vain.
The shabby woman gave her a dingy piece of paper folded and addressed hurriedly in pencil, in Logotheti's familiar handwriting. She spread out the half-sheet and read the contents twice over, looked hard at the messenger and then looked at the note again. 'Who gave you this? Who sent you? she asked. 'You are Madame Bonanni, are you not? inquired the woman, instead of answering. 'Of course I am!
But what he did complain of, and what had roused his temper, was that the last half-sheet of the letter had been deliberately torn off and not given to him. Directly after class he had marched boldly to the Henniker's parlour and knocked at the door. "Come in!" snapped she. Smith did come in, and proceeded to business at once. "You haven't given me all my letter, ma'am," he said.
He looked about for writing materials, and, finding only an ancient inkstand and pen, took a note from his pocket-book and tore a blank half-sheet off it. His quiet deliberate movements awed her as he intended they should.
These fancies he had versified, and having written the result down on a half-sheet of paper, he folded it into a narrow strip, and then twisted it into an almost impossible knot, and handed it to the person nearest concerned. Johanson read with astonishment: "It striketh me That you should be A gentleman, And drive a span, Live high, drink wine, Ask folks to dine, And make a dash.
With a fresh outburst of tears, the woman handed me a half-sheet of note-paper. "Bury us as we are," it read. "I am taking the baby with me. Etta." "We will come with you." Mrs. Mundy, who had gotten out her hat and coat to go to see Etta before Mrs.
In a voice more than commonly rich with accent, Sturm demanded sharply: "What is this? I do not understand!" He shook in Nogam's face the half-sheet of notepaper on which the Chinese phonograms were drawn. "Sorry, sir, but I 'aven't any hidea. Prince Victor didn't tell me anything except there would be no answer, and I was to 'urry right back to Frampton Court."
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