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And having seen to his guest's needs, and placed spirits and cigars and an ash-tray within his reach, the Padre sat himself comfortably in his chair to hear and expose the false doctrine of Il Trovatore. By midnight all of the opera that Gaston could recall had been played and sung twice. The convert sat in his chair no longer, but stood singing by the piano.
Chrysantheme squats like a gipsy before a certain square box, made of red wood, which contains a little tobacco-jar, a little porcelain stove full of hot embers, and finally a little bamboo pot serving at the same time as ash-tray and cuspidor.
On the table by the lamp were the combined medical books of Peter and Anna Gates, and an ash-tray which also they used in common. Shabby still, of course, bare, almost denuded, the salon of Maria Theresa.
Stay there was an ash-tray on the table, and a partly burned cigar near it only one cigar, though." "Excellent excellent, indeed, as far as memory and simple observation go. You saw everything plainly, and you remember everything. Surely now you know how I found out that another man had just left?" "No, I don't; unless there were different kinds of ash in the ash-tray."
"You are plain-spoken, your Highness," said Prince Otto slowly. At this moment the tension was relieved by the Young Turk falling off his chair with a crash on to the floor. Everyone jumped up startled. Raisuli took advantage of the confusion to pocket a silver ash-tray. The interruption had a good effect. Frowns relaxed.
He rose heavily from his place so that the chair creaked beneath him, scraped the cigar butt out of its holder into the ash-tray, and walked stiffly over to the wall where his hat hung on a nail. At the same time he continued his reverie.
He dropped his burnt-out cigarette into the ash-tray at his side. The rocker creaked rhythmically. "Mary, I want to draw Rosamond," said Stefan thoughtfully. "Oh, do you, dearest? That will be nice!" she exclaimed, her face breaking into a smile of pleasure. "Yes. Do you know, I was watching the little thing this afternoon, when Gunther and all the others were playing with her.
Her gaze, leaving the fire, rested for an instant on a little alabaster ash-tray which stood on the end of the table, and a spasm crossed her face, which had remained unmoved while she was reading his letter. Every object in the room seemed suddenly alive with memories.
But on the morning after he had purchased the plum-color gowns from Potash & Perlmutter it was nearly eight before he awoke, and when he entered the dining-room, instead of the two fried eggs, the sausage and the coffee which usually greeted him, there were spread on the table only the evening papers, a brimming ash-tray and a torn envelope bearing the score of last night's pinochle game.
I expect she 'll not care to renew the lease." "Don't know, I 'm sure," said Anthony. "You might ask her. We 're dining with her to-night. That would make a graceful dinner-table topic." Adrian's blue eyes grew round. "We 're dining with her to-night?" That did n't at all fit his theory of the case. "At least I am," affirmed Anthony, dropping the end of his cigarette into an ash-tray.
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