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I can't talk unless I've got hold of a cigar." While he struck a match, she noticed with surprise how very neat and orderly he was about the ashes of his cigars, which lay in an exact gray heap in the massive bronze ash-tray. What a pity, she thought, moved by a feeling of compassion, that he had had no advantages!
Longdon took up another ash-tray, but with the air of doing so as a direct consequence of Vanderbank's tone. After he had laid it down he put on his glasses; then fixing his companion he brought out: "Have you no idea at all ?" "Of what you have in your head? Dear Mr. Longdon, how SHOULD I have?" "Well, I'm wondering if I shouldn't perhaps have a little in your place.
There was no ash-tray, and the table being bare mahogany, the floor all polished wood, the fireplace with no fire in it, so brassy and shiny that to put anything there would be treason he dropped the cigarette into his hat. The doorkeeper smelled something, but he wasn't one who looked on lowly things when he walked, and so did not see the little spiral of smoke curling up from the hat.
He was looking very pale, and the ash-tray in front of him was littered with cigarette ends. "I will go and pay my respects to the Baroness," he declared. "It will change my luck, perhaps. Au revoir!" He passed out of the room and all eyes followed him. "Has the Prince been losing again to-night?" the Baron asked. One of the three men at the table shrugged his shoulders.
From the sideboard whence the marble fruit had for some time been missing she brought a bottle of aërated water and a glass to set before him; she found him an ash-tray, and seated herself beside the table near him in such a way as to get, through the parted half-doors, a glimpse of the visitor when she should leave. Before speaking, she exchanged with the doctor a look of intelligence.
"Fully four feet from the window, Petrie, and that window but a few inches open! Look" he bent forward, resting his chest against the table, and stretched out his hand towards me "you have a rule there; just measure." Setting down the ash-tray, I opened out the rule and measured the distance from the farther edge of the table to the tips of Smith's fingers.
He folded the paper again and carefully tore it into very small pieces. "Thank you," he said gravely. Then he turned in his chair and threw the papers into the ash-tray of the little iron stove behind him. "I judged it best to be strictly business-like," said the butcher, with moderately well-simulated carelessness. "But yes, Monsieur Lerac," with a shrug.
She was able to collect herself, to put on something like her habitual air of quiet dignity, before she pushed open the door and entered. Guion was lying on the couch with the rug thrown over him. Davenant stood by the fireplace, endangering with his elbow a dainty Chelsea shepherdess on the mantelpiece. He was smoking one of Guion's cigars, which he threw into an ash-tray as Olivia came in.
"One can forgive everything except lies" well, had the boy, had Wolfgang told a lie? Certainly not. He had only been naughty, as the best children are now and then. The man felt ashamed of himself: and he, he had been so displeased with the boy simply because he had been naughty? He got up from the sofa, threw the remains of his cigar into the ash-tray and went out to look for Wolfgang.
Madeleine placed a saucer on the table with the request to use it as an ash-tray, and taking down a volume of De Quincey from the hanging shelf, held it out to Krafft. "There you are. It will interest me to hear what you make of it." Krafft ceased his paring to glance at the title-page. "I shall probably not open it," he said.
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