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"Did you not bring one, my lord?" "Your Grace Your Grace," began the bishop, apologetically. "Do you think I am a snivelling scrivener, carrying quill and ink-well in my gown?" asked the duke. "Go to your parlor and fetch ink and quill," said Charles, pointing with the folded missive toward Yolanda. "A page will fetch the quill and ink, my lord," suggested the duchess.
A rude clapboard table did duty as a desk, a fact made plain by a horn ink-well, a notary's seal, and a rack with a half-dozen quill pens. Above the desk was a shelf of books in worn calf bindings, and before it a rickety chair. A shakedown bed in one corner of the room was tastefully screened from the public gaze by a tattered quilt. "Boy, don't be afraid.
He said, very low, and with terrible calm to Wallie Ascher who was then acting as a sort of secretary, "Wallie, can't you do something to make her stop rolling her eyes around at me like that? It's awful! She makes me think of those heads you shy balls at, out at Coney. Take away my ink-well." Renée had turned swiftly to Wallie and had said something to him in French. Sid Hahn cocked a quick ear.
He also learned something of the various kinds of cardboard and ink-well glass, though these, of course, were merely matters of knowledge, not of brilliant business tactics, and far less important than what Tom Poppins and Rabin called "handing out a snappy line of talk." "Say, you're getting quite chummy lately reg'lar society leader," Rabin informed him. Mr.
The manager moved a wire basket of carbon copies of letters from the left side of his desk to the right, staring at them thoughtfully; rearranged his pencils in a pile before his ink-well; glanced at the point of an indelible pencil with a manner of startled examination; tapped his desk-blotter with his knuckles; then raised his eyes. He studied Mr.
"Good for him!" said Madam heartily; then, recalling the business in hand, she added peevishly: "Well, stop talking now and explain these papers." Quin went over them several times with great patience, and then held the ink-well while she tremblingly signed her name. "Kinder awkward doing things on your back," he said sympathetically, as she sank back exhausted. "Awkward? It's torture.
A telegram propped conspicuously upon the ink-well proved to be from Mudge, the promoter, and read: Have possible investor who wants detailed information. Better come on at once. Symes's face lighted. "This is lucky! It couldn't have been more opportune! We'll go to-morrow and I'll tell Augusta while we're gone."
When he had been installed in a corner suite, spread out his writing things on a flat-topped table that faced the sea, filled his ink-well, and lighted his pipe, he seemed to have escaped from a threatening presence. He could breathe freely here, thank goodness, and work.
We like new ideas; and a new pen, a new mind, ought to produce them. If you don't see your articles in the paper, you'll know what has happened to them. If you do, paste them on space slips and send them up by the boy on Thursdays." Mr. Malcolm nodded and smiled and dipped his pen in the ink-well. The editorial appeared just as Howard wrote it.
The ink-well was to be followed by a series of letters, sent on the slightest provocation, on order or re-order, tactfully hoping the various healths of the Southland were good and the baseball season important; all to insure a welcome to the salesmen on the Southem route.
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