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Many plans were revolving in his mind. Moralists might have labelled them "blackmail," but Lars Larssen was utterly free from scruples where his own interests were concerned. Honesty with him was a mere matter of policy. To a man with the average sense of honour, such an attitude of mind is scarcely realisable, but Lars Larssen was no normal man.
Nimble fingers soon opened it, and found, besides le cafe and le the, as they were labelled, several petits pains "Rolls!" cried Julie, smacking her hungry lips a bunch of saucisses; of le fromage about a pound, and of la patisserie enough for a meal for the hungry girls.
The little housekeeper was very particular about flies in summer, every window and chimney-opening being wire-netted, every door labelled with a printed request to the user to shut it; and his dazed mind occupied itself with the idea of how this insect would have distressed her if she had not had so much else to think of.
As fast as they were claimed, they were ticketed with the number of the ward and bed of the claimant, and piled away to await his return to his regiment. Those unreclaimed and known to have belonged to the dead were labelled as far as possible with the name and date of death, company, and regiment, and stored until friends should come or write for them.
The handsome sheets, hoods, and rollers, in which they had hitherto appeared, and on which the initial B was alone conspicuous, were carefully folded up, and they were henceforth seen in plainer, but as serviceable apparel, labelled W. B. "Will you give fourteen to one against Brien Boru?" said Viscount Avoca to Lord Tathenham Corner, about ten days after this, at Tattersall's.
Marcella had seen it last on the night of the execution, in ghastly apparition at Minta Hurd's window, when it might have been caught by some sculptor in quest of the secrets of violent expression, fixed in clay or marble, and labelled "Revenge," or "Passion." Its passionless emptiness now filled her with pity and horror. She sat down beside the widow and took her hand. Mrs.
Under the magic silvery whiteness the lost "parterres and cabinets and lozenges" with their paths and borders stood out as clearly in the moonlight as the day when Madame Prudence's workmen had charted them there. She laughed aloud as she ran back and turned to the map labelled "The twentieth and laft practife which is the most superb and which is The Bifected Oval."
The other policeman, who held one of the lamps over the table while Chisholm was making this search, waited silently until it was over, and then he nodded his head at the stair. "There's some boxes, or cases, down in yon car," he remarked. "All fastened up and labelled it might be worth while to take a look into them, sergeant.
And there was another little item labelled "Foreign Gossip," under which was mentioned that the Pope was dead, and that the President of Paraguay had been assassinated. In short, I got the impression that I was living in an easy drowsy world, as no doubt the editor meant me to.
'But, Richard, burst forth the merry voice of the youngest, 'you must see our letters from Edinburgh. 'You have heard, then? It was the very thing I came to ask. 'Oh yes! there were five notes in one cover, said Gertrude. 'Papa says they are to be laid up in the family archives, and labelled "The Infants' Honeymoon." 'Papa is very happy with his own share, said Ethel.
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