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'There! I cried with vim, 'have you ever seen that sheet before? He glanced at it without offering to take it in his hand. 'Oh, yes, he said, 'that has been abstracted from our file. It is what I call my visiting list. 'Come, come, sir, I cried sternly, 'you refuse to confess, but I warn you we know all about it. You never heard of Dr. Willoughby, I suppose?
It's a piece of thick paper they write it down on, and it has some sealing wax on it. Aunt Judy showed me father's will once." Dudley did not look enlightened, so Roy went on, "I want you to get a piece of paper and write down my will for me. I will tell you what to say." Dudley slipped out of the room obediently and returned with a sheet of note paper, but this did not satisfy Roy.
Nor were her apprehensions materially allayed by the entrance of Dorothy, who, looking white as a sheet, said she did not dare to remain in her own room, having been terribly frightened, by seeing a monkish figure in mouldering white garments, exactly resembling one of the carved images on the wardrobe, issue from behind the hangings on the wall, and glide into the oratory, and she entreated Mistress Nutter to let Alizon go back with her.
His fingers shook as he held the sheet nearer the window for a final effort to untangle the incredible thing that lay before him in simple, unimpeachable black and white. "'Pon me word," he kept repeating to himself feebly. Then he got up and went off in extreme haste to find his wife. "My dear," he said to her in the carriage-way, "I must speak with you alone."
They stood out through the straits between Point Tiburon and the Isle of the Angels, where the tide ran fast. Then, for the first time, was Rezanov able to form a definite idea of the size and shape of this great natural harbor. To the south it extended beyond the peninsula in an unbroken sheet for some forty English miles.
He next noticed several guards rush out on the bridge, who, throwing off their coats, began quickly to turn heavy cranks, and then he saw the sheet of glistening hooks rising slowly from the water. Now he understood why they had tried to stop him. To be thrown with all that force against those hooks meant not only certain death, but fearful mutilation.
We took the familiar road past the Italian garden, the statues showing ghostlike in the cold gray light, the lake a sheet of ice. Soon the château of Capello was behind us. The two Chevernys joined us a mile from the château and rode with us a stage. Count Saxe was cheerful, as always, and spoke with enthusiasm of again seeing Mademoiselle Adrienne Lecouvreur.
His knocking about the world for a bit had opened up his mind. The possibility of his having in time a handsome income had let in upon him many new and daring ambitions. His housekeeper, having expressed her grief that she had just posted some letters to him, not knowing that he was returning to England, brought in a number of small passbooks and a large sheet of blue paper.
The poor child's sufferings have hardened her heart and destroyed for a time her sense of right and wrong that is all." With this thought uppermost in her mind she took the letter from her desk, and stirring the smouldering embers, laid it upon the coals. The sheet blazed and fell into ashes. "No one will ever know," she said with a sigh.
"He arrived before I reached my rooms as you know, I don't live there waited some time, began to write me this note," drawing the sheet of paper from his pocket "and when I got there had disappeared without leaving a message or anything." Wilmore adjusted his pince nez with trembling fingers. Then he read the few lines through.
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