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She nodded. "It has been stolen by one of those expert dog thieves, who then levy blackmail on the unfortunate owner?" Again she nodded in assent. I read the dirty, almost illegible scrawl through more carefully this time. It was a clumsy notification addressed to Mme. la Comtesse de Nolé de St.
"Make a mark on me with your white pencil," she would say, offering her dark cheek to Reuby, who would scrawl hieroglyphics all over it from hair to chin.
Henry sat down awhile, and pored over the sanguinary scrawl, and glanced from it with a shudder at the glittering knife. And, while he was in this state of temporary collapse, the works filled, the Power moved, the sonorous grindstones revolved, and every man worked at his ease, except one, the best of them all beyond comparison.
But Felice hadn't minded, she had inscribed a card, on which in her spidery slanting scrawl was written, "By gad!" he breathed, grinning, "she's coming on!" He didn't protest at Dulcie's demurely calling him "The Rumor," not even when she added, "Because as a lawyer, you're a false alarm." He took his humble part in the gigantic house-cleaning.
Dunstable's got just as much over at Day's. So you see the Trust is a jolly big show. Here are your two pages. That looks just like your scrawl, doesn't it? These would be fourpence in the ordinary way, but you can have 'em for nothing this time." "Oh, I say," said Jackson gratefully, "that's awfully good of you." After that the Locksley Lines Supplying Trust, Ltd. went ahead with a rush.
It was so entirely in the spirit of Prothero, Benham thought, to let the "damned frontier" tip the balance against him. Then came a scrawl of passionate confession, so passionate that it seemed as if Prothero had been transfigured. "I can't stand this business," he wrote. "It has things in it, possibilities of emotional disturbance you can have no idea!
He knew well enough that little Stanley's suspicions were correct. There was no doubt that the boat had been afloat quite recently; but Christian knew his duty towards the Beacon and sacrificed his strict sense of truth to it. On the way home he was somewhat pre-occupied as much, that is to say, as he was in the habit of allowing. The pencil scrawl supplied food enough for conjectural thought.
As often as a scrawl came from Colonel Ames reporting progress, and the plans he and his sister were making, the deeds they were doing, the grand-jury was sworn and the surgeon arraigned before it; the chief justice came into court, and all the witnesses, and the accusation was read. Then the counsel for the defendant and the counsel for the plaintiff appeared.
He, too, chuckled tenderly, for the scrawl ran: "What I want for Chrismas: Pictures, pretty ones, Picture frames, Chairs, Plates for dinner, Knives, Spoons, Anything for a flat." Christmas drew nearer.
Natures opposed on certain points understand each other with difficulty, and I am afraid that you will not understand me any better today than formerly. However, I am sending you this scrawl so that you can see that I am occupied with you almost as much as with myself. You must have success after that bad luck which has troubled you deeply.
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