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Updated: May 4, 2025
They waited in vain for the rest of the party, for whose delay their hostess was at a loss to account. At length she turned aside and opened her blotting-book, which quickly revealed the cause of the guests' non-appearance the invitations were lying there. They had been written, but never sent.
"I wonder if Miss Vaughan uses a blotting-book? It all depends upon that!" "A blotting-book?" I echoed. "But I don't see...." He shook himself out of his thoughts with a little laugh. "Not now, Lester. It's time we were in bed. Look, there's the sun!" and he led the way into the house. "I'll have you called at nine," he added, as he bade me good-night at my door.
'In the blotting-book in my room, said Charles. 'I must explain that the book is my property, and was put into your room when mamma was beautifying it for you, as new and strange company. On its return to me, at your departure, I discovered a great accession of blots and sailing vessels, beside the aforesaid little things. 'I shall resume my own property, said Guy, departing in haste.
"Did you write that note to Swain in your own room?" "Yes." "And will you show me the table at which you wrote it?" "Certainly," and she opened the door. "Come in. I wrote it at that little desk by the window." Godfrey walked to it, picked up a blotting-book which lay upon it, and turned over the leaves. "Ah!" he said, after a moment. "I was sure of it. Here is the final link.
Just as we came to the library door, he turns and says to me, with his hand on the knob, 'From what Miss Byrne says, Blanston, I'm afraid it's murder. And before I could more than gasp he had the door open, and we were in the room. "There was his poor lordship lying forward on the table, his head on the blotting-book, and one arm hanging down beside him.
"Oh, no, it was not Madame Wachner who found it. Anna's letter was discovered the next morning by the chambermaid in a blotting-book on the writing table. No one had thought of looking there. You see they were all expecting her back that night.
He went up to a side-table, on which lay a blotting-book, with other requisites for writing, and then he stood for a moment as if in meditation. 'Your name is Emma, isn't it? he inquired, looking at the girl with a smile. 'Yes, it is. 'Well then, Emma, shut the door, and let's have a talk. Your mother won't mind, will she? he added slyly. The girl tossed her head.
My mind seems like an old blotting-book, full of fragments of sentences, of words suggesting something, which refuses to absorb any more ink.
Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet.
The maid glanced inquisitively, first at her mistress's haggard looks, then at the writing-table, as she passed it on her way to draw the blinds. The table was littered with writing-materials; some torn sheets had been transferred to the waste-paper basket, and a sealed letter was lying, address downwards, on the blotting-book. Letty, however, did not encourage her to talk.
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