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At his request she took away the little blue-covered book and relocked it in the safe. Then she rang for Hill, and told him to send the despatch by messenger down to Auchterarder village. "Very well, miss," replied the man, bowing. "The car is going down to take Mr. Seymour to the station in about a quarter of an hour, so Stokes will take it."
Marie made a feeble gesture as though to say that she consented, and Pierre at once took out of the valise at the foot of her bed, the little blue-covered book in which the story of Bernadette was so naively related.
But they were not in their accustomed corner by his chair. Up and down he searched, while the three servants took up the quest, stooping and peeping under book-cases and drawers. Ida had returned to her studies, and Clara to her blue-covered volume, sitting absorbed and disinterested amid the bustle and the racket.
When my evening-school had been in operation a few weeks, I noticed, one evening, at the end of the back-form on the girls' side a new face. The owner of this new face was very quietly studying her book, a thin, blue-covered book, Temple's Arithmetic. She was dressed in black, not fine, glossy black, but black that was gray, rusty, and well worn.
On a blue-covered couch lay Jane fast asleep. 'Walk forward without fear, said Nisroch. 'Is there aught else that the Servant of the great Name can do for those who speak that name? 'No oh, no, said Cyril. 'It's all right now. Thanks ever so. 'You are a dear, cried Anthea, not in the least knowing what she was saying. 'Oh, thank you thank you. But DO go NOW!
Anne remembered the room with its blue-covered beds, and the fire burning beneath the lithograph of Queen Victoria, and the girl sitting beside it whom she could not reach by speaking, and who was now indeed dead. "You'll perhaps be going up?" said the farmer, as if to lay on someone else the responsibility of knowing about it also.
When John made known his wishes, the latter ran his hand in behind a pile of tobacco and brought out a number of blue-covered packages marked "Imperial Toffy." "I think you will find this very nice, sir," said he. "It's made in the old country, and we sell quite a bit of it here."
Thus far the collection might have been swept from some great bookstore or picked up at an evening auction-room, but there was one small blue-covered pamphlet which the pedler handed me with so peculiar an air that I purchased it immediately at his own price; and then for the first time the thought struck me that I had spoken face to face with the veritable author of a printed book.
For there is no friendship so intimate and satisfying as that engendered by community of work, and none between man and woman, at any rate so frank and wholesome. Every day had arrived to find a pile of books with the places duly marked and the blue-covered quarto notebooks in readiness.
Her erudition in this line of literature is immense; she has kept pace with the press for half a century. Her mind is stuffed with love-tales of all kinds, from the stately amours of the old books of chivalry, down to the last blue-covered romance, reeking from the press; though she evidently gives the preference to those that came out in the days of her youth, and when she was first in love.
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