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"You don't say!" exclaimed Emma McChesney, and turned to the clerk. "This is my son, Jock McChesney Mr. Sims. Is this true?" "Glad to know you, sir," said Mr. Sims. "Why, yes, I'm afraid we are pretty well filled up, but seeing it's you maybe we can do something for you." He ruminated, tapping his teeth with a pen-holder, and eying the pair before him with a maddening blankness of gaze.
She had bought herself a blotting-book, writing-case, pen-holder, and envelopes, although she had no one to write to; she dusted her what-not, looked at herself in the glass, picked up a book, and then, dreaming between the lines, let it drop on her knees. She longed to travel or to go back to her convent. She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.
"Personally, I sympathise with the kid," he added, "Still, the Gazeka is a prefect " Bob gnawed a pen-holder morosely. "Silly young idiot," he said. "Sickening thing being run out," suggested Burgess. "Still " "I know. It's rather hard to see what to do. I suppose if the Gazeka insists, one's bound to support him." "I suppose so." "Awful rot. Prefects' lickings aren't meant for that sort of thing.
It was rather embarrassing to be called "dear." He attempted to hide his confusion by wiping his nose; but in producing his handkerchief, he pulled out with it a forked catapult stick and a broken metal pen-holder, which clattered to the ground and had to be picked up again. "How you've grown!" said Queen Mab, "and my senses! what muscles you've got," she added, feeling his arm.
Choose now, what will you have of mine?" "Well," I said, "give me the gold pen-holder that Redmond sent you after he went away." Laura rose up in her bed, and seized me by my shoulder, and shook me, crying between her teeth, "You love him! you love him!" Then she fell back on her pillow. "Oh, if he were here now! He went, I say, to marry the woman he was engaged to before he saw you.
He wrote three letters in a very few minutes, and, when they were addressed, he tapped on the table with the end of his pen-holder, which brought, in the twinkling of an eye, that clerk whose business it was to abandon his books when called.
Not that it makes any difference to her, for reading and writing are out of her line. Still, in her writing-case, lies the selfsame ivory pen-holder, the only one ever handled. The fact is, all this was intended as a hit at me, because I would not keep my husband company in his vagaries.
He was at work on his accounts at the moment, but now he remained biting the end of his pen-holder and staring through the window. From somewhere in the sagebrush came the sound of shots: Dave potting tin cans with the .22 rifle that had been Lee's gift to him. In the room was only the snapping of the fire. Presently the telephone rang. "Imo now," he exclaimed.
"Let me look over them for one day; if I don't convince you the next morning in five minutes that I can straighten them I'll leave them without a word." The merchant looked down an instant, and then turned to the man at the desk. "What do you think of that, Sam?" Sam set his elbows upon the desk, took the small end of his pen-holder in his hands and teeth, and, looking up, said:
But there's an old flat-footed friend of mine in the department and he, whenever he writes me, never forgets to mention that every once in a while the chief clerk, or somebody or other in his division, is sure to look out the window and across the street at the White House grounds, as if trying to remember something; and whenever he takes a particularly long look he is always sure to turn around and say to the man at the nearest desk, 'What d' y' s'pose ever became of that hose-pipe spook used to haunt this place? And the man at the nearest desk he'll look up and nibble at the end of his pen-holder, or maybe he'll get up and have a look out of the window at the Cabinet playing tennis, and after a while he'll say: 'That's so; I wonder what ever did become of that?
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