United States or Heard Island and McDonald Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Thompson, and put Clare's prospectus in his pocket-book; and, having got somewhat at home in his new business, settling the most urgent matters connected with the transferment, started on a visit to Helpston, in company with a friend. Entering the little cottage, the two visitors, though they expected to see poverty, were greatly surprised at the look of extreme destitution visible everywhere.
Other things would be well enough if the Indians could have every thing they wanted, but are absurd and mischievous as taking the place of what is absolutely essential to their well-being. Of other things embraced in the schedule of annual appropriations, it can only be said that the Indians need them no more than a toad needs a pocket-book.
And that pocket-book was for next year, you know; and, in that pocket-book you had to write down that sad day, Wednesday, January 24th, eighteen hundred and never mind what, when Dr. Birch's young friends were expected to re-assemble. Ah me!
"He goes a little further than we did, my dearest Esther." "Yes, and I told him that I had gained it from you without any sacrifice, and that now I was a true Pythoness without having to endure the torments of the tripod; and I am sure that the replies you gave were invented by yourself." "But if that were so how could I have known where the pocket-book was, or whether the ship was safe?"
"None of your keys will open it, of course?" "No, sir. That is I don't know, sir. I've never tried." Inspector Chippenfield grunted slightly. That trap the butler had not seen until too late. But of course all servants went through their masters' private papers when they got the chance. "Do you know if Sir Horace was in the habit of carrying a pocket-book?" he asked. "Yes, sir; he was."
"Well, Beatty," old Stuart cried, without preliminary effort, "I just can't live without you that's the whole of it." She smiled. "I ain't much longer to live, and then you're to have it all. So why shouldn't you take what you want now?" He drew out several checks from his pocket-book. "You can cable your folks at once and go ahead.
Therefore, I had sent him the unopened pocket-book by Herbert, to hold in his own keeping, and I felt a kind of satisfaction whether it was a false kind or a true, I hardly know in not having profited by his generosity since his revelation of himself. As the time wore on, an impression settled heavily upon me that Estella was married.
Dodd next removed the oilskin cover, and showed the pocket-book, brought it down with a triumphant smack on the hollow of his hand, and, in the pride of his heart, the joy of his bosom and the fever of his blood for there were two red spots on his cheek all the time told the cold pair Its adventures in a few glowing words: the Calcutta firm the two pirates the hurricane the wreck the land-sharks he had saved it from.
With the rest of the passengers I had taken out my pocket-book and searched as if for my passport, but had handed none to him, and now I sat awaiting developments. I saw that he would read the six passports, and then turn to me for the seventh. The desperate thought flashed upon me of opening the door and escaping into the darkness.
Sheldon produced them from his pocket-book with an unshaken hand. No change of countenance, no tremulous hand, no broken voice, betrayed his apprehension. The one distinguishing mark of his manner was an absent, half-mechanical tone, as of a man whose mind is employed otherwise than in the conversation of the moment.
Word Of The Day