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I'll write to her, and we'll put it in the big letter-box at the gate as we go out. Has anyone got a bit of pencil and a scrap of paper?" Gerald had a note-book, with leaves of the shiny kind which you have to write on, not with a blacklead pencil, but with an ivory thing with a point of real lead.
She described with the pencil their flight away from the river, and after that their return and a second fight. It was then Bram Johnson had come into the scene. And back there, at the point from which the wolf-man had fled with her, was her FATHER. That was the chief thing she was striving to drive home in his comprehension of the situation.
In another moment he had dashed up stairs, and saying, "Sister, read that!" put into Betty's hand a slip of paper on which was written in pencil "If Sir A. B. would not have his true love kidnapped to the plantations, he had best keep watch on the river gate of Mistress Darke's garden at Greenwich. No time to lose." "Who brought you this?" demanded Betty, as well as she could speak for horror.
Ringing cheers and the crashing strains of the military band greeted the return of the aviator, but oblivious to the enthusiasm Wilbur Wright stood beside his machine with pencil and pad computing his bonus. It figured up to five thousand dollars, and the reporters chronicled that the Wrights knew well the difference between solid coin and the bubble of reputation.
If I repeat the touch with the pencil, I see the same sudden retreat and, soon after, the same contact just as readily renewed.
A fourth entry followed instantly on the cheering side of the pocket-book: "He loves me, and I love him without our being in the slightest degree related to each other. Any more?" asked Neelie, tapping her chin impatiently with the end of the pencil. "Plenty more," rejoined Allan; "all in hieroglyphics. Look here: 'Marriage Acts, 4 Geo. IV., c. 76, and 6 and 7 Will.
"Let me see," and, walking down the path, she pointed out where each kind of flower was to grow. "You might draw it now," said Uncle Robert; "then we'll make no mistake." "Oh, goody!" cried Susie. "That's what I'll do. Wait until I get a pencil and paper." "Here is a pencil," said Uncle Robert, taking one from his pocket, "and perhaps this old envelope will do to draw it on."
They are extended flat against the wall, or even framed, that not one stroke of the artist's pencil or one flash of the weaver's shuttle be hid. But, many were their uses and grand were their purposes in the days when high-warp and low-warp weaving was the important industry of whole provinces.
He was doing his best to explain with a pencil on the back of an illustrated paper some new system of wool-bleaching. "Mr. Coulson," the Inspector said suddenly, "do you know a young lady named Miss Penelope Morse?" It was here, perhaps, that Mr. Coulson sank a little from the heights of complete success. He repeated the name, and obviously took time to think before he answered.
Then there is the pleasure of marking with a pencil the articles which you would buy if you could the Nankin double bottle, the old novel bound in the arms of the Comtesse de Verrue, the picture ascribed to the school of Potto Pottoboileri.
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