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The only trouble is that he may walk off with your brass tongs up his trouser-leg, or a print or two tucked under his shirt." We had decided that we would have a series of photographs of the house, with all particularly good points stressed; such as, say, the library fireplace, the fan-light window at the end of the upper hall, the pillared front porch, and a corner of the drawing-room.
He had one of the finest collections of chrysoprase in the world. He loved these semi-precious stones because of their unmatchable, translucent green like the pulp of a grape. From Burlingame Kitty had learned that Cutty, rather indifferent to women, carried about with him the photographs large size of famous professional beauties and a case filled with polished chrysoprase.
We should begin with man, of course; institute a large and exact comparison between the development of la pianta umana, as Alfieri called it, in different sections of each country, in the different callings, at different ages, estimating height, weight, force by the dynamometer and the spirometer, and finishing off with a series of typical photographs, giving the principal national physiognomies.
Every day the French print special maps showing the guns, sham guns, trenches, everything of significance behind the German lines, showing everything that has happened in the last four-and-twenty hours. It is pitiless. It is indecent. The map-making and printing goes on in the room next and most convenient to the examination of the photographs.
"She is very good-looking," said Lady Macleod. "Oh yes, she is very good-looking. And that is her sister?" "Yes." Janet was looking over them too. "But where did you get all the photographs of her Keith?" she said. "They are from all sorts of places Scarborough, Newcastle, Brighton " "I got them from herself," said he. "Oh do you know her so well?" "I know her very well.
"You had the mail to-day," the boy continued. "How were things in London?" "Not so bad," Trent answered. "Cathcart has been doing all the harm he can, but it hasn't made a lot of difference. My cables have been published and our letters will be in print by now, and the photographs you took of the work. That was a splendid idea!" "And the shares?" "Down a bit not much.
Then at sight of the blank faces of dismay, she seized hold of Agatha's hands and began to sob. Mr. Flight had stepped out of the car at the same moment, and answered the incoherent questions and exclamations. "Young Delrio offered to take photographs of the party, and that was the last time she was seen." "Yes," sobbed Paula, "Sister Mena saw her there.
The local newspapers chronicled her toilets and triumphs. Her little sitting-room was a sentimental hall of Eblis, full of shapes with hearts that were one burning coal, bright with the sacred flame. She had a large album which she called her "him-book," because it contained nothing but the photographs of her admirers.
While the comet could only be seen, save by astronomers, in the photographs that could be bought in any form from a picture-postcard to a five-guinea reproduction of the actual thing, there was still an air of unconvincing unreality about. Of course it might be coming, but it was still very far away, and it might not arrive after all.
'Does that include all the odds and ends, asked the California man, 'old magazines, umbrellas, needles and pins, empty bottles, photographs, candlesticks, Japanese fans, coal ashes, and all that kind of thing, that make a house feel like a home?
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