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Smith raised himself up out of the white cane chair, and, bending forward over a corner of the table, scribbled busily upon a sheet of notepaper with my fountain-pen. The while he did so, I covertly studied our visitor. He lay back in the armchair, his heavy eyelids lowered deceptively.
Some of the walls are scribbled over by the small boys of Pompeii in strange characters which mock modern erudition. In places we read the advertisements of gladiatorial shows, never to come off, the names of candidates for legislative office who were never to sit. There is nothing like this elsewhere.
But when he gave back the card she found that he had scribbled his initials in all three blank lines. "Oh, you mustn't do that. I'm saving those for Richard." "Our dance, I believe, Mrs. Mahony?" said a deep voice as the band struck up "The Rat Quadrilles."
The child slipped the paper over the winking jewels and scribbled in a native account-book. 'There are under that paper five blue stones one big, one smaller, and three small, said Kim, all in haste. 'There are four green stones, and one with a hole in it; there is one yellow stone that I can see through, and one like a pipe-stem.
The Desert Rat gazed after him. "God bless your crude untutored soul, you best of mozos" he murmured. "You have one virtue that most white men lack you'll stay put and be faithful to your salt. And now, just to be on the safe side, I'll make my will and write out a detailed account of this entire affair in case." For half an hour he scribbled haltingly in an old russet-covered note- book.
"He's always asking about you, and you can answer his questions yourself." "I'll do it," said Jenny, and seizing the pen, she thoughtlessly scribbled off a ludicrous account of her failure, and of the blunders she was constantly committing, while she spoke of Mary as the pattern for the whole school, both in scholarship and behavior.
Allison referred to the lines she had scribbled on the back of a magazine: "There is a young maiden, they say, Who grows more beloved every day. When we talk or we ramble, there's always a scramble To be next to the maid who is Gay." "Whew! Thanks awfully!" came the embarrassed exclamation from the boughs above, and Betty cried, in surprise: "Why, I wrote about her, too.
"If you care to go ahead," I wrote, "I'm in for all I'm worth." Jim read and looked round at me like one bewildered; then his eyes lightened, and turning again to the auctioneer, he bid, "Five thousand one hundred dollars." "And fifty," said monotonous Bellairs. Presently Pinkerton scribbled, "What can it be?" and I answered, still on paper: "I can't imagine; but there's something.
Hundreds of his books are to be seen on the shelves, all marked and dog-eared and scribbled on, thus disproving much of that old cry that "Clay was not a student." Some men are students only in youth, but Clay's best reading was done when he was past fifty. The book habit grew upon him with the years. Here are his pistols, spurs, saddle and memorandum-books.
He was holding her scribbled note, which he had just discovered, in his shaking hand. Struck by his kinsman's manner, and knowing the dependent relations of father and daughter, Breckenridge nodded and hurried away. Left to himself, Madison Clay ran his fingers through his hair, and straightened out the paper on which Salomy Jane had scrawled her note, turned it over, and wrote on the back:
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