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Then suddenly that part of Heaven was vacant, except for Jurgen, who stood there quite alone. And before him was the throne of the vanished God and the sceptre of the God, and Jurgen saw that the seven spots upon the great book were of red sealing-wax. Jurgen was afraid: but he was particularly appalled by his consciousness that he was not going to falter.
Red-hot sealing-wax could not have done more damage to the tender, sensitive feature. The Boy carried his nose in a sling for many weeks, and the bandage, naturally, twisted the nose to one side. It did not recover its natural tint for a long time, and the poor little heart was nearly broken at the thought of the fresh disfigurement.
Soot's man delivered three separate envelopes at the door, and they looked like letters from some bereaved giant. The envelopes were twenty inches by fourteen, and made of cartridge-paper; the black border was two inches deep, and the black seals must have consumed a stick of sealing-wax among them.
Her dress, as well as her whole air and demeanor, indicated a mother wholly devoted to her household and her son. If the strings of her bonnet were faded, the shape betrayed that it was several years old. The shawl was fastened by a broken needle converted into a pin by a bead of sealing-wax.
Do you think they have got pen, ink, and paper too?" Isabel answered, without turning to look at him, "Of course they have!" "And a bit of sealing-wax?" "I daresay!" Old Sharon laid his dirty claws on her shoulder and forced her to face him as the best means of shaking them off. "Come along!" he said. "I am going to pacify you with some information in writing." "Why should you write it?"
Well may the Walrus, most discerning and eclectic of beasts, place sealing-wax midway on his programme of topics that fall pertinent and diverting upon the ear. Atwood was gone he of the hospitable back porch and ingenuous cunning. Dr.
"I beg pardon," he murmured, "I did not for the moment recognise Shall we have the pleasure of sending the medicine?" But this Iris hastily refused, and in a few moments she left the shop in triumph with a bottle of Roche's embrocation neatly done up in white paper and sealing-wax.
Daddy, overworked among his sealing-wax, went for a change to Switzerland, taking Mother with him; Aunt Emily, in her black silk dress that crackled with disapproval, went to Tunbridge Wells an awful place in another century somewhere; and Uncle Felix was left behind to "take charge of ''em'" "'em" being the children and himself.
And what a beautiful crimson it is! I have, then, at length, found the right receipt for good sealing-wax, and this, which I made myself, may vie with that made at the best Spanish factories. Oh, I see, this sealing-wax will drive my black cabinet to despair, for it will be impossible to open a letter sealed with it; even the finest knife will be unable to do it.
Duly authenticated by citations of investitures, indulgences, and concordates, engrossed on yellowest parchment, sealed with reddest sealing-wax, and reposing in a thousand pigeon-holes in mustiest archives, no claim could be more solemn or stately.
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