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It was plain enough, however, to see that these people were not rolling in that splendour, of which we had just seen so much in the Park. "I can trace the readiness and gallantry of the English tar in your conduct," observed the Major, after he had given us both quite as warm a reception as circumstances required, at the same time taking out his pocket-book, and turning over some bank-notes.
Polly knew that he was itching to talk police and murders, for he cast furtive glances at her from time to time, produced a bit of string, tied and untied it into scores of complicated knots, and finally, bringing out his pocket-book, he placed two or three photographs before her. "Do you know who that is?" he asked, pointing to one of these. The girl looked at the face on the picture.
It was in one of these boxes that Richard Luttrell had made, early in the day, a startling discovery. He had come across a pocket-book which had been abstracted from his strong-box in a most mysterious way about a week before.
"The best part of it," I'd return, "but you can have all I've taken, and there'll still be enough for both of us." "You're a queer one!" he'd say, and then add sometimes, dryly, "but there's one crop ye don't git, David," and he'd tap his pocket where he carries his fat, worn, leather pocket-book. "And as fer feelin's, it can't be beat."
I thought I feared that Laurence was going into your room I watched him go; and then, putting on a long waterproof cloak, and drawing the hood over my head to look like the monk, I followed him. It was I who put the pocket-book back." "How did you manage it?" with a smile. "You see, you had left your window a little open.
"One day when searching the doctor's rooms in his absence, my object being to discover some evidence in relation to the Millinborn murder, I found this." He took a newspaper cutting from his pocket-book and laid it on the table. "It is from El Impartial, a Spanish newspaper, and I will translate it for you. "'Thanks to the discretion and eminent genius of Dr.
Dolly was not a little surprised to see Sir Launcelot Greaves, of whose character she had conceived a very sublime idea from the narrative of Mr. Thomas Clarke; but she was still more surprised when he gave her to understand that he had charged himself with a pocket-book, containing the bank-notes which Miss Meadows had dropped in the house where they had been threatened with insult.
Opening his pocket-book, he took out the piece of blotting-paper marked by Silvio's claws, on which was also marked in pencil a diagram of the cuts made on Mr. Trelawny's wrist. He placed the paper under the mummy cat's paw. The marks fitted exactly. When we had carefully examined the cat, finding, however, nothing strange about it but its wonderful preservation, Mr.
I had made a little map in my pocket-book of the various twists and turns of the road through that vast Slough of Despond, marking them from hour to hour as we followed its devious wanderings.
I'm a short speaker, and go to it at once, and I won't detain you a second after you've answered me. My father nodded to this, with the conciliatory comment that it was business-like. The old man drew out his pocket-book. 'You paid a debt, he said deliberately, 'amounting to twenty-one thousand pounds to my grandson's account. 'Oh! a debt! I did, sir.
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