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He seemed to gasp for breath as his long fingers pressed the green table-cover before him. His small eyes were wide open, and his toothless jaw dropped. Gouache feared that he was going to be taken ill. "You!" cried the old man in a cracked voice, when he had recovered himself enough to be able to speak.

Besides this lack of colour stanchness, it had another fault which helped to overbalance its many virtues. It was fatally attractive to fire. Its soft, fluffy surface seemed to reach out toward flame, and the contact once made, there ensued one flash of instantaneous blaze, and the whole surface, no matter if it were a table-cover, a hanging, or the wall covering a room, was totally destroyed.

More especially was he struck by what a later verse writer described as "that most pompous room called Paradise", a room which, according to the ducal description, "captivates the eyes of all who enter by the dazzling of pearls of all kinds", and "in particular there is one apartment belonging to the Queen, in which she is accustomed to sit in state, costly beyond everything; the tapestries are garnished with gold, pearls, and precious stones one table-cover alone is valued at above fifty thousand crowns not to mention the royal throne, which is studded with very large diamonds, rubies, sapphires and the like that glitter among other precious stones and pearls as the sun among the stars".

She took off her spectacles again, leaned toward me across the bead-work table-cover, and went on with lowered voice: "There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn't live. Well, I say it's a pity she did. I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me.

But they could all stay where they were, and I walked home in quite different company." Cope threw back his Oriental table-cover once more and drew out a few additional sheets of paper. "One of them is an artist. She paints portraits, and possibly other things. Oh, I was going to say there is an art-gallery at the top of the house. Her husband I mean Mrs.

If he sees a pillow that takes his fancy, or an elegant table-cover, or, indeed, any article of furniture, he praises it, looks admiringly at it, takes it into his hand, and, complaining that he has nothing of the kind, begs or rather extorts it from its owner." Such trifling folly was fatal.

She tiptoed up to kiss him again, this time at the back of the neck, carefully averting her floury hands. "Mamma's boy! I made you three pen-wipers to-day out of the old red table-cover." "Aw, fellers don't use pen-wipers!" He set up a jiggling, his great feet coming down with a clatter. "Stop!" "Can't I jig?" "No; not with neighbors underneath."

"Ready," announced Indiman, and we descended to the coach, Mr. Blake bringing up the rear and carrying the precious picture enveloped in a silken table-cover. "What reward is offered, officer?" asked Indiman as the carriage drove off. "One hundred thousand dollars, sir. It will be a big thing for me if if " He stopped, a trifle embarrassed. "Ah, those ifs!" quoted Indiman, musingly.

The torn-out insides of their home littered the stones with familiar shapes and colors, and Nancy played among them, visiting each parcel and folded thing. "There's the red table-cover!" she exclaimed, "and the big coffee-grinder. And there's our table, and the hole Mart burned in it." She took a long look at this. "Oh, how I wish I could see our pump!" she said, and began to cry.

He knew it was money, and this was Prudence's brother. "Got into a mess?" he suggested encouragingly. Hervey felt that he had an easy victim, but he smoked pensively for a moment before he spoke, keeping his great eyes turned well down upon the table-cover. "Um I lost a lot of money at poker the last time I was in the city. I was in an awful streak of bad luck; could do nothing right.