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There were four or five larger within sight. But where was the use of argument? He produced a tape-line, made me help him to measure the tree at the level of the ground, and entered the figures in a large and filthy pocket-book, all with the gravity of Solomon.
I'm not going ashore again without my pocket-book, I can tell you." He winked shamelessly at Captain Jenness. "If you hadn't been along, Dunham, I couldn't have made a raise, I suppose. You wouldn't have lent me five dollars, Captain Jenness." "No, I wouldn't," said the captain, bluntly. "And I believe you'd have sailed without me, if I hadn't got back on time."
They are going to Prince's Place again, and I daresay will fix there for the winter, though my father has talked of Bath and Plymouth. I find in half-rubbed-out notes in my pocket-book, "Sophy Slave-ship: Sophy Rope-walk: Sophy Marine acid: Sophy Earthquake: Sophy Glasshouse," etc.: and I intended to tell you a la longue of these.
"How old was he?" asked Bashwood the elder, eagerly. Bashwood the younger burst out laughing. "He was about old enough, daddy, to be your son, and rich enough to have burst that precious pocket-book of yours with thousand-pound notes! Don't hang your head. It wasn't a happy marriage, though he was so young and so rich. They lived abroad, and got on well enough at first.
This threat, adroitly thrown out as an afterthought, was intended to immediately clinch the matter. "I have reflected carefully," said the pious woman, "and I feel sure that in the hands of so religious a man as monsieur I run no risks." Taking from her bosom a little pocket-book, she pulled out twenty-five bank notes. The rapid manner in which she counted them was a revelation to la Peyrade.
He stepped back into the passage, lighted a candle, handed it to Dick Cameron, and they entered quietly together. Ronnie lay on his back, sleeping heavily. His eyes were partly open, his face flushed, his breathing rapid. One arm was flung out toward a chair beside the bed, on which lay his pocket-book, his watch, and a small leather miniature-case containing a portrait of Helen.
She was shaken and nervous, and in need of a sedative, and Saxham, having the drugs at hand, made her up a simple draught, unluckily omitting to make a memorandum of the prescription in his pocket-book, and gave her the first dose of it before she went away, profuse in thanks, and carrying the bottle.
"I haven't got any of your money," I answered. If Ham could rob the mail, it would not be a very hard step for him to take to rob his father's pocket-book; and I began to think he had done so, charging the crime upon me. "I didn't say you had got any of my money," added Captain Fishley. "I asked you how much you had." "What do you want to know for?" "No matter what I want to know for.
George asked, with a reasonable air, carefully transferring letters, pocket-book, and watch-case from one vest to another. "George, when does Mamma ever plan ANYTHING!" Mary reminded him, with elaborate gentleness. There was a short silence. The night was very sultry, and no air stirred the thin window-curtains.
Incredible as it may seem, Falsten remained the same as ever, occupying himself with writing down figures and memoranda in his pocket-book. Mrs. Kear, in spite of all that Miss Herbey could do for her, was evidently dying. With regard to the sailors, two or three of them were calm enough, but the rest had well-nigh lost their wits.