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The paper cutter in his hand trembled. In the breathing space allowed him he began to calculate rapidly. The king and the diplomat had been in the garden; something had passed between them. What? The paper cutter slowly ceased its uneven movements. The count calmly placed it behind the inkwells. .... The Englishman knew. The glitter of gold gave way to the thought of the peril.

Speaker, I protest, began th' Hon'rable Attila Sthrong, 'I protest At this a perfeck tornado iv rage broke out in th' gall'ries. Inkwells, bricks, combs, shoes, smellin' bottles, hand mirrors, fans, an' powdher puffs were hurled at th' onforchnit mimber.

"Did they find any letter or enclosure that might explain why she was admitted?" "No, sir, nothing." The two men eyed each other in silence. Each felt the other's reticence. "And what do you advise now?" Gard inquired. Brencherly's gaze shifted to the bronze inkwells. "If I knew just how this event affected you, sir, I might be able to advise." It was his employer's turn to look away.

From its threshold we had leisure to contemplate in silence the prodigious spectacle spread out before us. You have, I believe, been at the Camp of Chalons for artillery drills. You have seen when the shell bursts how the chalky soil of the Marne effervesces like the inkwells at school, when we used to throw a piece of calcium carbonate into them.

"I bet he's cracking his skull to find out my game," he thought with amusement. "By the time he reaches the office, he'll have worked it out that I'm more far-sighted than the rest of them, and am making character; that I'm trying to do business by the Ten Commandments will never occur to him." He returned to the table and resumed his task, paused and sat gazing absently at the contorted inkwells.

"He worships his father's memory. He is engaged, also, to a very dear little friend of mine the child of an old colleague. I want to shield them both." "I understand." He nodded his head slowly, lost in thought. The woman, childishly interested in the grotesque inkwells on the table, stepped forward and raised one curiously.

And the Marshal, the bitterest tongue in all Bleiberg, reached over and picked up the cigar which lay by the inkwells. He lit it at one of the tapers, and sank again into the chair. "Count, how many games are you playing?" "My dear Marshal, it was not I who spoke of games. I am playing no game, save for the legitimate sovereign of this kingdom. I ask for no reward." "Disinterested man!

There was the usual clattering of inkwells and requests for new pens, and then Miss Marlowe went to her desk, and according to custom one by one the class brought up their books to receive her suggestions and criticisms. Judith wrote her corrections mechanically and slowly, but her mind was working swiftly.

And to allow voluntarily some other pupil to fill the inkwells, distribute pencils, scratch pads, and drawing paper at their appointed intervals, and to indulge in a hundred and one other little acts of monitorship is no slight sacrifice for a boy to make. The geography lesson began.

This he sealed and addressed in a stamped envelope: then thrust his pen into a raw but none the less antique potato; covered the red and black inkwells; closed the ledger; locked the petty-cash box and put it away; painstakingly arranged the blotters, paste-pot, and all the clerical paraphernalia of his desk; and slewed round on his stool to blink pensively at Mr. Bross.