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He rose; and as he was about to lock up his escritoire, he remembered the papers which Leonard had requested him to read. He took them from their deposit, with a careless hand, intending to carry them with him to his father's house. But as his eye fell upon the characters, the hand suddenly trembled, and he recoiled some paces, as if struck by a violent blow.
With cool deliberation she unlocked a drawer of her escritoire and picked out a dainty little ivory-butted revolver with polished barrel. It was very small almost a toy. She broke it apart and pushed five cartridges into the chambers. With a furtive glance over her shoulder she placed it in her bosom, and then hastily returned to her chair by the fire and picked up a book.
She sat, weak, pale and distressed, before her escritoire, striving to put her mind and her heart to the note she was writing to him whose card, by strange coincidence, had just come up. An hour ago he was in her thoughts so differently and he was in her heart, how deeply she had not realized, until there came the crash which shattered the ideal. He was a coward!
I would you were all villain." "Your scruple is fantastic!" retorted the other, and as he spoke he put both papers upon the escritoire, weighting them with the sandbox. "You shall take them hence when our score is settled, ay, and use them as best you may! Now, sir, are you ready?" "You are weak from illness," said MacLean hoarsely, "Let the quarrel rest until you have recovered strength."
His wig was frowsy, his three-cornered hat was out of shape and he held a big stick with which he every now and then thumped the floor to emphasise his words. Beyond this unpleasant figure she could see a small untidy room with a sloping roof. The floor, the chairs not common ones but of the early Queen Anne fashion with leathern seats an old escritoire, were strewn with papers.
Nothing had been disturbed the old cabinet with the lions' heads stood opposite the window; the little escritoire, behind which he had crouched on the fatal night, was pushed back against the wall; the chairs, the tables, thick with dust, stood just as they had been standing for many years.
The dressing-table boxes held some bits of jewelry but nothing of really great value. An escritoire was full of letters and papers, and this, Lowney locked, and put the key in his pocket. "If it's all right," he said, "there's no harm done. And if the lady doesn't show up, we must examine the stuff." On we went to the third floor of the house.
She was already at her escritoire, writing the invitations for the little dinner. "The pleasantest angling is to see the fish ... greedily devour the treacherous bait." Much Ado about Nothing. The invitations to Mrs.
Two writing-tables occupied spaces between French windows one the desk of a business-like roll-top escritoire; the other, the flap of a Chippendale bureau, with a Chippendale arm-chair before it. There were a few other pieces unmistakable English. In fact, Eliza Countess of Gaverick, in addition to a handsome present of plate, had sent her niece the furnishings of her old room at Castle Gaverick.
But you will acquaint me, from time to time, with the use you are making of your power over the poor classes?" "I will render my account to your majesty. But first draw out the deed." The empress stepped to her escritoire and wrote a few lines, to which she affixed the imperial signature and seal. "There it is," said she.
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