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An American clock ticked on the mantel-shelf, a fire burned in the grate behind a high wire screen. The unshaded gas-lights gave the room a dreary aspect it need not have had otherwise. The only occupant of the room was Mary Gray, who sat at a small table working a typewriter.
The poison more or less loses its efficiency, however, after the sticky, tarlike substance has dried out. I offered a half-rupee as a prize for an archery competition, for I was curious to get a view of their marksmanship. The bull's-eye was a piece of typewriter paper at thirty paces. This they managed to puncture only once out of fifteen tries, though they never missed it very widely.
I want nothing but a little food if I may go about with you and hear you speak. Oh, take me!" Maraton smiled. "You are engaged," he declared. "Go out and hire a typewriter and bring it here in a cab. You can start at once, I hope?" "This minute," Aaron agreed, his voice breaking with excitement. Maraton passed him money and took them both to the door. "Tell me about to-night?" Julia asked.
Sometimes I think you look at everything too much in the light of the way it ought to be!" "The Milky Way," said Gregory. Mrs. Shortman pursed her lips; she found it impossible to habituate herself to Gregory's habit of joking. They had scant talk for the rest of their journey to the S. R. W. C., where Miss Mallow, at the typewriter, was reading a novel. "There are several letters for you, Mr.
"I'll go there I'll do anything you want me to do," she urged. "You can tell your father that I'll help you in the office. I can learn. I'm ready to use a typewriter anything." He was silent in the face of her naïve expression of self-sacrificing love, and after a moment she added, hesitatingly: "I wish I could meet your father. Perhaps he'd come up here if you asked him to do so?"
"What does he mean?" "Oh," said Groups and Bunks, with condescending pity, "he means a typewriter. He calls it a little train because it moves on a track when you hit it." A painful apprehension seized him, and he went hastily to his study. He had not noticed the typewriter, which Mrs. Spaniel had too late put out of reach.
Miss Brown, with the radiance of her hair effectually concealed, in plain black skirt and simple blouse the ideal secretary had risen from the seat in front of her typewriter, and was standing facing the door through which he had entered, with a small revolver which he had given her for a birthday present only the day before clasped in her outstretched hand.
Life settled down once more in the House on Martin's Hill. James worked with the machine himself and laid out lessons to guide Martha. Then, finished for the day with education, James took to his typewriter while Martha had her nap. It filled the days of the boy and girl completely. This made an unexpected and pleasant change in Mrs. Bagley's routine. It had been a job to keep Martha occupied.
I have often thought that a prison, provided that one were allowed unlimited paper and the use of a typewriter, would be the most charming of holidays a perfect rest cure. There are three books in my head which I should like to write. Arrest me, Dawson, I implore you! Put on the handcuffs I have never been handcuffed ring up a taxi, and let us be off to jail.
"Do you admit," asked the presiding officer, "that these copies of the code were written on your father's office machine?" "I do not, sir. But, if it be true, is that any proof that I made those copies of the signal code? Is it argued that I alone have access to the typewriter in my father's office.
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