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Philip wove an unsatisfactory mat of sedge upon a loom of cord and stakes, whittled himself a knife and fork and spoon which he initialed gorgeously with the dye of a boiled alder, invented a camp rake of forked branches, made a broom of twigs, and sunk a candle in the floor of his tent which he covered with a bottomless milk bottle.
I will write to the Governor to give you a better room." "Shall I find writing materials?" "You can have anything supplied to you that you ask for; I will give orders to that effect by the usher who will take you back." Lucien mechanically signed the minutes and initialed the notes in obedience to Coquart's indications with the meekness of a resigned victim.
It was in the form of a memorandum from Col. H. F. White to Col. Frank Rhodes, and bore no signature; but the last line was in Dr. Jameson's handwriting, and was initialed by him. It ran as follows: As you may imagine, we are all well pleased by your letter. We have had some fighting, and hope to reach Johannesburg to-night, but of course it will depend on the amount of fighting we have.
Numbered and initialed they ran to the number of fourteen millions six hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred and twelve. As he studied them the judge was at first surprised, then astonished, then stupefied, amazed, and, if I dare say so, flabbergasted.
He proudly exhibited the bizarre collection of scraps, initialed in token of debt and reinitialed in token of payment. "Brian I I " "Go ahead, old boy," said Brian, his eyes tender. "I can see you've got a lot on your mind." "I paid 'em every one!" "So I see." "And never again will you have to bookkeep lies. I'm that truthful now Sid worries a bit!" Brian's amazed eyes twinkled.
Lady Alicia has arrived. So have her trunks, eleven in number count 'em! trunks of queer sizes and shapes, of pigskin and patent leather and canvas, with gigantic buckles and straps, and all gaudily initialed and plastered with foreign labels. Her ladyship had to come, of course, at the very worst time of year, when the mud was at its muckiest and the prairie was at its worst.
There was a decided thrill in the prospect of possessing such finery, all initialed with huge, silken O. B's. Life was presenting wholly novel and exciting possibilities to the youth. When Gray offered him a cigarette, Buddy rudely took the gold case out of his hand and examined it, then he laughed in raucous delight. "Gosh! I never knew men had purty things. I I'm goin' to get me one like that."
She, herself, humbly acknowledged that she did not seem to "belong," but here she was, divesting herself of her wet wraps and getting ready for tea in the tiny flat. Handkerchiefs, initialed, "warranted," uninitialed, unwarranted were behind her and ahead, but between she forgot their existence and took her comfort. "Well?" she said presently. "I'm ready."
Yet the coincidences of this disappearance, the evidences of a crime, and the cuff button initialed "M," possessed too strong a significance to be entirely disregarded. At the third club Marsh secured practically no information. Merton had been an infrequent visitor and had made little or no impression upon the employees.
The agreement, already initialed by the Chinese Government, is now awaiting formal ratification. The basis of the settlement of the terms of this loan was one of exact equality between America, Great Britain, France, and Germany in respect to financing the loan and supplying materials for the proposed railways and their future branches.
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