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When, seated opposite to him at the small square leather-covered writing-table in the draper's counting-house, she turned back her veil, he noticed at once the ravages which grief and shame and anxiety had made in her face.
"I wonder," said he, as he lifted out a thick leather-covered book with heavy metal hinges, "if there are many Americans whom it would be so difficult to persuade to accept a royal title?" "I fancy it would be much the same with all the truly representative old American families," said I. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Same to you," said the old gentleman, scrambling up the unswept, cinder-covered steps into the day-coach. At the front end of the train, the baggage man was tumbling into the express car the fine, leather-covered boxes and the one square trunk. Neale carried Eugenia's two small bags down to the drawing-room car and now handed them to the porter.
My only idea was to get hold. He did not exist for me. The leather-covered bottle was the only real thing in the world. I was completely insane. I heard a faint detonation, and Manuel got up quickly from the sill. The flask was out of my reach. There were more popping sounds of shots fired, away on the plain. The peons were attacking an outpost of the Lugareños.
It is no more of vanity for one to say 'I have succeeded' than to say 'I will succeed." He paused a moment and stood near Henry's chair. "You have the chance to become what I cannot be one of the wealthiest men in this country." He sat down, and leaning back in his leather-covered chair, stretched forth his legs and crossed his slippered feet. He looked at Henry.
Beyond the second lobby, she passed into a vast pillared hall, where men and women, not all in evening dress, were strolling up and down, smoking and chatting, or sitting on leather-covered benches, to stare aimlessly at the promenaders, as if they were tired, or waiting for something to happen.
He found nothing but a few religious books, and amongst them a leather-covered Testament, which he opened and read with insensibility passing on, at length, to interest, then to fascination, at last to rage and defiance the opening chapters and the close of the story of Jesus. "Now, by the sufferings of my patient race! I will do a thing unlike myself, to prove this testimony a libel.
The dark panelling, the massive furniture, and the rich leather-covered walls with their heavy ceilings, all accented the weird effects of the millions of gleaming coin and gorgeously tinted stocks and bonds. The huge table seemed to fill and crowd the entire room and the wall of gold to be pushing itself against the ceiling.
Cobb was already opening a pair of leather-covered cases, exposing electronic gear. He had also brought a portable antenna, which he began setting up. McDevitt had a radio in his car with which to talk to Wallops, and Steve handed him one unit of a walkie-talkie radio network. Another unit went to Chuck, and Steve retained one. Steve glanced at his watch. "Let's get going.
The counting house was in the same building; but Tom, because of Mr. Jones's letter, was conducted directly into the parlor, where the great rich man was awaiting his coming. He was sitting in a leather-covered armchair, smoking a pipe of tobacco, and with a bottle of fine old Madeira close to his elbow.
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