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"I don't believe he has had that of her," said she, snapping her thumbnail against one of her enormous white teeth, "and he has given her ten thousand francs' worth of presents already." "What a good joke it would be!" cried Crevel, "if I got to the winning post first!" "Good heavens! It is too bad of me to be telling you all this tittle-tattle," said Lisbeth, with an air of compunction. "No.
Was there ever such fair hair as hers? Surely never. Born a wonder, from top to toe, her lips a ripened loveliness, and the play of dragonflies in her hair. If only one could draw out a diadem from a sack of clothes and give it her. I'll find a pink shell somewhere and carve it to a thumbnail, and offer her the pipe to give her husband for a present ... yes....
Taking a dripping chippa, or willow bough, from the basket where it had been soaking, she dried it on leaves and wound it tightly in a close coil the size of her thumbnail, then spatted it together until it seemed no longer a cord, but a solid piece of wood.
'Twas just a honey-coloured thing carved to the familiar pattern and a bit bigger than your thumbnail, and with a thin little silver chain hung to it. And fired to a rash deed, he thought on Cora and went in the shop and asked the price. A hopeful jeweller said he could have it for ten bob, so James took a chair and cheapened it.
For myself, I had gout or rheumatism or the black dog on my back, I forget which! Anyhow, I stayed at home." She laughed and pointed to the cigarettes. He took one, tapping it on his thumbnail. "You were alone. Why didn't you 'phone? I should have been glad to escape the Australians. They are enormously kind, but somewhat er overwhelming," he added with a quick laugh.
He made no reply to this, but bent over the guineas, fingering them, holding them up to the candlelight, testing their edges with his thumbnail, and finally poising them one by one on the tip of his forefinger. "I have a pair of scales," suggested I. "Thank you, I too have a pair in my pocket. But I do not need them.
But I couldn't get done with my machine in so short a time. We'd each our own affairs to take our time; apart from the machine, there was that thumbnail for the pipe I wanted to finish, and the evenings came out all too short. As for Falkenberg, he had made it up with Emma again. And that was a difficult matter and took time.
"Oh, a few dollars; ten or fifteen. Why?" "I'd almost be afraid of losing it, Mr. Herrick. Would you please see that it wasn't a very big nug nug " "Nugget'? All right," he laughed. "I'll see that it's only about as big as your thumbnail." "Thank you, sir; I'd think a great deal of it. Will you have some more tea?" "No, no more tea, Zephania. No more anything. You may take the things out."
One glance at it was sufficient, and it was with difficulty that the detective restrained the exclamation of triumph which rose to his lips. Upon the card was mounted a tiny, thumbnail photograph of a face the face of Ramon Hamilton! It was more like a death-mask than a living countenance, with its rigid features and closed eyes, but the likeness was indisputable. "I recognize it, indeed, Doctor.
I was still contemplating the dog, when, suddenly recollecting our broken conversation, I went on "Now, Sperver, you have not told me everything. When you left the mountain for the castle was it not on account of the death of Gertrude, your good, excellent wife?" Gideon frowned, and a tear dimmed his eye; he drew himself up, and shaking out the ashes of his pipe upon his thumbnail, he said
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