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"Oh, lots of things," he repeated at last, "tricks, and how not to answer, and how to avoid coppers and how to get money. Mother said it was stealing." The scar on Aymer's forehead was very visible. He took up a paper-knife and ran his fingers along the edge slowly. "Well?"
It's your present intention to close down the factory and shut up this office as soon as things can be wound up." "That's my intention," said Sypher. "You'll come out of it solvent, with just a thousand pounds or so in your pocket. The Cure will disappear from the face of the earth." "Quite so," said Sypher. He leaned back in his chair, and held an ivory paper-knife in both hands.
A labor of unspeakable difficulty, and all for what advantage? There are so many letters, too twenty-seven in all." "Lord, what an ass!" Mr. Locket exclaimed. "It will be one of the strangest post-mortem revelations of which history preserves the record." Mr. Locket, grave now, worried with a paper-knife the crevice of a drawer. "It's very odd.
On the gray cement walls were four German photographs of famous marbles. The Venus de Milo looked across to the David of Michael Angelo; the Flying Victory across to Rodin's Thinker. In the centre was a massive Florentine table, its broad top bare except for a big ivory tusk paper-knife free from any mounting of silver. On the shelf underneath were portfolios of the reproductions of paintings.
Sand, who had heard him coming up, was standing by the table, with a paper-knife in his hand, waiting for him; directly the visitor came in, Sand flung himself upon him, struck him lightly on the forehead; and then, as he put up his hands to ward off the blow, struck him rather more violently in the chest; then, satisfied with this experiment, said:
The tea had just been taken away, and Marcella had gone to sit upon an old sofa near the fire, whither Aldous had followed her. Wharton, who had so far said nothing, had left his post of observation on the hearth-rug, and was sitting under the lamp balancing a paper-knife with great attention on two fingers.
His father was all curtained in; his slippered feet on the fender of the blazing hearth, his head cushioned to a nicety, the long paper-knife across his knees. And the room was really hot and in a glow of light. Darius turned and, lowering his face, gazed at Edwin over the top of his new gold-rimmed spectacles. "Not gone to chapel?" he frowned.
I went there in a state of nervous collapse. He received me in his study, as he had done seven months before, at our first interview, but with a more solemn politeness; and I noticed that the paper-knife, which he had taken up from the table as he resumed his seat, shook between his fingers. I sat in the same chair in which I had felt so ill at ease.
"And lest the other things should not go with it," she added, "I'll wear three American Beauties on a black gown so that you may know me." "Good! Peacock Alley at five," he replied and snapped up the receiver. "The affair promises to be quite interesting," he confided to the paper-knife, with which he was spearing tiny holes in the blotter of the pad.
Arnold told him once more what had happened at the inn. Geoffrey listened, without making any remark. He balanced the paper-knife vacantly on one of his fingers. He was strangely sluggish and strangely silent. "All that is done and ended," said Arnold shaking him by the shoulder. "It rests with you now to get me out of the difficulty I'm placed in with Blanche.
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