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I was a good deal astonished, but when I got my breath I asked her what the paper was about, and she asked me if I had read it, and I said no, and she asked me if I could read writing, and I told her "no, only coarse-hand," and then she said the paper warn't anything but a book-mark to keep her place, and I might go and play now.
"I thought this would be the end of it," he announced. "The devil and all hell plays on the side of Bard," answered the foreman. "I had him safe almost tied hand and foot. He got away." "Got away?" "Shot the rope in two." The other placed a book-mark, closed the volume, and looked up with the utmost serenity. "Try again," he said quietly.
"What's the matter?" asked Hiram, stirring in his turn. The Cap'n was prompt with biting reply. "One of your Smyrna 'cyclopedys of things that ain't so is open at the page headed 'idjit, with a chaw of tobacker for a book-mark. If the United States Government don't scoop in the whole of us for maintainin' false beacons on a dangerous coast in a storm, then I miss my cal'lations, that's all!"
"Don't soil any book Don't write on margins Don't turn down leaves Don't lay a book on its face open Don't wet fingers to turn leaves Don't fail to use the book-mark Don't read with unclean hands." As a loose slip is liable to fall out, some such reminder should be pasted into the fly-leaf of every book, next the book-plate.
I stood toying with a book-mark, reflecting. She must inevitably come to suspect that something had happened, and it would be as well to fortify her. "The trouble is," I said after a moment, "that Perry and Tom would like to run modern business on the principle of a charitable institution. Unfortunately, it is not practical.
I stood toying with a book-mark, reflecting. She must inevitably come to suspect that something had happened, and it would be as well to fortify her. "The trouble is," I said after a moment, "that Perry and Tom would like to run modern business on the principle of a charitable institution. Unfortunately, it is not practical.
'Where does this phrase come from? he continued, pointing to a scrap of paper, used as a book-mark, on which Godwin had pencilled a note. The words were: 'Foris ut moris, intus ut libet. 'It's mentioned there, Peak replied, 'as the motto of those humanists who outwardly conformed to the common faith. 'I see. All very well when the Inquisition was flourishing, but sounds ignoble nowadays.
Grey's hand it opened at the record of births, where on the wide page appeared only the name of Ulpian Grey, and from the leaves fluttered a small bow of blue ribbon. He picked it up, and, considering it merely a book-mark, would have replaced it, but Miss Jane exclaimed, "It is the blue knot that fastens that child's collar. Give it to her.
I rose, first placing a book-mark in Carlyle, and assured him that I was surprised to see him here. "Surprised to see me!" he returned, far from being damped by my manner. "In fact, I am a little surprised to see myself here." He sank back on the window-seat and clasped his hands behind his head. "But first let me thank you for respecting my incognito," he said.
The best she could do was to buy small Testaments with red covers, and she had cut a piece of bright red, inch-wide ribbon into thirteen lengths, had raveled out the ends so as to make fringe, and had put a piece of this fringed ribbon into each boy's New Testament for a book-mark. The boys thought a great deal of the pieces of ribbon, they were so bright and pretty.
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