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At the same time, according to the same authority, there is a type of normal person who tends to be convicted of crime, and he is differentiated from his fellows by defective physique and mental capacity and an increased possession of antisocial qualities. "The English Convict," a statistical study, by Charles Goring, M.D. His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913.
And I'd like to see who's going to close her up then." Within two more weeks the plan was in operation. Not only was the caff built but the very hotel was transformed. Awnings had broken out in a red and white cloud upon its face, its every window carried a box of hanging plants, and above in glory floated the Union Jack. The very stationery was changed. The place was now Smith's Summer Pavilion.
There were the markets at which the corn, the cattle, the wool, and the hops of the surrounding country were exposed to sale. There were the great fairs to which merchants came clown from London, and where the rural dealer laid in his annual stores of sugar, stationery, cutlery, and muslin. There were the shops at which the best families of the neighbourhood bought grocery and millinery.
There was no doubt that the captain noticed the difference. He noticed it more the following day, and more still on each succeeding one. The next evening the Blacks called called in state. A note from Mrs. Black, arriving by the morning's post, announced their coming. Serena noted the Black stationery, its quality and the gilded monogram, and resolved to order a supply of her own immediately.
Ladies, I am Sam Winnington, son of the late gallant Captain Winnington, though I should not call him so; and this is Will Locke, the vagrant child of an excellent man, engaged, I believe, in the bookselling and stationery trade. We are painters, if it please you, on a tour in search of sketches and commissions.
They tried several more shops, the kinds where you buy toys and perfume and silk handkerchiefs and books, and fancy boxes of stationery, and photographs of objects of interest in the vicinity.
It was in a small brick house in a side street, but not far from one of the main business avenues of the city. The shop seemed devoted to articles of stationery and small notions of various kinds not easy to be classified.
Gathering up her stationery, she made a movement to rise but the doctor checked her with a question. "Say! Not that I want to ast questions too close but what was you writin', now, in that letter of yourn, about Jake Getz?" Miss Margaret was scarcely prepared for the question. She stared at the man for an instant, then helplessly laughed at him.
He apparently was having some difficulty with the cylinder, for his face was red. Her father was eying the gun with the critical approval of an expert. "Father," said Miss Cahill petulantly, "why didn't you answer? Where is the blue stationery the sort Major Ogden always buys? He's waiting." The eyes of the post-trader did not wander from the gun before him.
Winstick had hidden behind the Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery, to whom she was explaining, between spoonfuls of strawberry ice, her terrible situation. And from the lips of another lady whose face she knew, she heard after she had passed, "Don't you think it's rather an omnium gatherum?"
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