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They had finished at last, and Anthony Crawford, pushing back his chair, came abruptly out of the past into the present. He thrust his hand into the inner pocket of his coat and brought out some legal-looking papers like those that Cousin Tom had locked away in the tin box. "Here is the deed that you made out, Jasper, for the house and the land that you gave up to me.
"You say you have legal affidavits that the man who performed that marriage ceremony was a fraud, paid to act the part? that the marriage was a sham no marriage at all?" "You know it wasn't!" Theodore shouted at him triumphantly, pulling legal-looking papers from his pocket. "And you were married to another wretched woman at the time.
Having obtained his mail one letter in a legal-looking envelope and made all other preparations to return to the bosom of his family, Stamps sidled up to the counter, and, leaning over it, spoke in an insinuatingly low tone: "She was bar'foot," he said, mildly, "'n' she hadn't been raised to it that was one thing.
"It is that since these records show no sale of its property by the Midland Company, the Midland Company can come forward and re-establish its title." Corrigan laughed and flipped a legal-looking paper in front of the Judge. The latter opened it and read, showing eagerness. He laid it down after reading, his hands trembling.
From Cuthbert Vane alone there came a steadfast no and the Scotchman put a hand on the boy's shoulder with a smile which was like sudden sunlight in a bleak sky. Mr. Tubbs then produced a legal-looking document which I took to be the original agreement of the members of the expedition.
I would be obliged if you could make me a bundle of legal-looking papers that are of no further use to you: a sheet of that parchment, and some of the blue stuff like what I carried. The Earl seems determined to have a packet of papers from me, and I would like to oblige him, as he's going to be my father-in-law, although he doesn't know it.
The day after the funeral, Dr. Merrick called in for the last time at her lodgings. He brought in his hand a legal-looking paper, which he had found in searching among Alan's effects, for he had carried them off to his hotel, leaving not even a memento of her ill-starred love to Herminia. "This may interest you," he said dryly. "You will see at once it is in my son's handwriting."
"I don't know why, but I'm scared to death now that I'm up against it," Matthew confided to me as he first took a legal-looking piece of paper from his pocket and then hastily put it back as he and I followed the parental twins down the hall and into the library.
But what business Bonfils and Company conducted was left entirely to the imagination of the passer-by. Val locked the roadster and took from Ricky the long legal-looking envelope which Rupert had given them to deliver to Mr. LeFleur. Ricky was staring in a puzzled manner at the shop when her brother took her by the arm. "Are you sure that you have the right place?
And she could see the Adventurer, quite unmoved, quite debonair, a curiously patient smile on his face, standing there, much nearer to her, his right hand in the side pocket of his coat, a somewhat significant habit of his, his left hand holding a sheaf of folded, legal-looking documents. And then she heard the Adventurer speak. "What a flow of words!" said the Adventurer, in a bored voice.
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