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However, it was nothing like a kitten that followed the blue-bordered handkerchief out of the voluminous skirt-pocket. A crumpled clipping from a newspaper fell to the walk as Professor Dimp strode away. Bobby Hargrew's quick eye noted the clipping first, and she darted to retrieve it. She came back more slowly, reading the printed slip. "What is it, Bob?" asked Jess, idly.
He drew a small torch from the skirt-pocket of his coat and crossed to the hall door, as Garson nodded assent. "God! Why did she have to come?" Garson muttered, filled with forebodings. "If anything should go wrong now!" He turned back toward the door just as it opened, and Mary darted into the room with Griggs following.
It's a pleasure to obey a laird; or should be, to the young." "Well, sir," said I, "it may be; and I'll promise you I'll try to make it so." "Why, very well said," replied Mr. Campbell heartily. I have here a little packet which contains four things." He tugged it, as he spoke, and with some great difficulty, from the skirt-pocket of his coat. The other three are gifties that Mrs.
"Who put it there?" "I do not know." The officer looked her steadily in the eyes. They were blue. His own dropped. "You ought to have brought that letter with you, ma'am," he said, looking up again; "don't you see how valuable it would be to you?" "I did bring it," she replied, with alacrity, rummaged a moment in a skirt-pocket, and brought it out.
I say that a'ny man what can't take kere o' himself, not ter mention his wife, should orter go ter the poorhouse." But the matriarch's voice quavered even more than usual, and as she finished she hastily bent down and felt in her deep skirt-pocket for her snuff-box. Now the Amazonian Mrs.
There might, indeed, be more behind; but of that I had no evidence at all; I had received no confidence that could be of any value: and as for the paper in my skirt-pocket, I valued it no more than a rush; and wondered I had taken the trouble to secure it. When I reached my lodgings, I took it out and looked at it again. I had not even the means of reading it.
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