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When he went to his desk it was with the double intention of addressing a letter to his tailor, and locking the cherished photograph in a drawer; but, the letter finished, he still held the picture in his hand and gazed down at it mutely and when the discreet knock on his door that constituted the announcing of dinner came, he was still sitting motionless with the photograph propped up before him.
But when you say it, I believe it." "That's a poor reason," said Madame de Cintre, smiling. "No, it's a very good one. You have a high spirit, a high standard; but with you it's all natural and unaffected; you don't seem to have stuck your head into a vise, as if you were sitting for the photograph of propriety.
They tore deep gashes in his cheeks and across his nose. He let her go with a yelp of pain and shame. His fists gathered; primeval instinct told him to smash the mask of pale hatred he saw before him. But he saw the photograph in her left hand. It had been bent double in the scuffle. He snatched at it and tore away the lower half.
"Good deal," Joe said, "haven't seen her for a couple of years." He wasn't that anxious to see Ingrid, but in Max's presence he lapsed into old habits. The years might have been weeks, and he might have been just away on a business trip. "Wait til you see what I bought," Max said. He handed Joe a photograph of a farm at the base of a mountain. "It's near Londonderry, in Vermont.
Cowan" Harvey D. had become uneasy in his chair, and had twice risen to put straight a photograph of the Whipple block that hung on the opposite wall "but what we would like to get at " "I know, I know" Dave silenced him with a wave of the calabash "you want to know what it's all about what it's coming to, what we're here for. Well, I can tell you a little.
The letter had contained Nellie's photograph, and he showed it to Pawnee Brown as he asked for permission to leave his work of assisting the boomers to be prepared for a moving in order to pay Arkansas City another visit. "Go on, Jack. You're my right-hand man, but I'll manage somehow without you," answered the great scout.
Then she will go back into her room and lie on the big couch near the window where the young, low pines brush the wall, with Cousin Billy's photograph in her hands, and be so deathly quiet that I sometimes get frightened and creep up to the door to peer in and be sure that she is all right.
I've been interviewed this afternoon, for a lady's paper. And I wouldn't mind betting I wouldn't mind betting, he repeated, 'that she's come for my photograph. All this was whispered. Henry had guessed correctly. It was the question of a portrait which Miss Foster plunged into immediately he entered the drawing-room. She had forgotten it utterly she had been so nervous.
Owen examined the photograph closely. 'Could you do anything like that in that room? 'Yes, I think so, replied Owen. 'Well, you know, I don't want you to start on the job and not be able to finish it. Can you do it or not? Rushton felt sure that Owen could do it, and was very desirous that he should undertake it, but he did not want him to know that.
"Of course; who older?" Campbell was silent a moment. If he was inclined to choke, at least Lucia did not see it. "I trust I have not offended your Mr. Vavasour?" "Oh!" she said, with a forced gaiety, "only one of his poetic fancies. He wanted so much to see Mr. Mellot photograph the waterfall. I hope he will be in time to find him." "I am a plain soldier, Mrs.
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