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All these Farnie observed with considerable interest, but as he moved towards the book-shelf his eye was caught by an object more interesting still. It was a cash-box, simple and unornamental, but undoubtedly a cash-box, and as he took it up it rattled. The key was in the lock.
A large fitted travelling-bag stood open on a cushioned seat, showing silver-topped bottles; and the wall on one side of the cabin was almost hidden with photographs and sketches which had been tacked up, over a low book-shelf, filled with volumes in uniform binding of blue and gold.
Geisner is off again on Monday or Tuesday." "Tuesday," said Geisner, who had gone to the book-shelf again. "Then I'll come Monday evening," said Nellie, for his tone was an invitation. "I feel like a walk, and I don't feel like talking much." "All right," said Connie, not pressing, with true tact. "Will you come on Monday too, Ned?" she asked, moving to the door under the hangings with Nellie.
Thereto testified the numerous journals which lay scattered about on the floor, but more especially the nineteen quarto volumes, which stood above on the book-shelf, lettered in gold on the back, "VOSSIAN GAZETTE," and under that the number of the year, from 1740 to 1759. The Vossian Gazette was then a young, blooming rose, of scarcely nineteen summers.
Edward approached the book-shelf and selected a volume he thought the most likely to interest so little practised a reader; and when he turned round he saw Gusty poising in his hand an antique Irish sword of bronze. "Do you know what that is?" inquired Edward. "I can't tell you the name of it," answered Gusty, "but I suppose it was something to stick a fellow."
But if one took a volume of Chaucer or Shelley from that rank, its absence irritated the mind like a gap in a man's front teeth. One could not say the books were never read; probably they were, but there was a sense of their being chained to their places, like the Bibles in the old churches. Dr Hood treated his private book-shelf as if it were a public library.
Accordingly a thorough and searching investigation had swept the booksellers' shops, hawkers' stands, public and private libraries, and even the little book-shelf by the country fireside, and had brought the world's entire mass of printed paper, bound or in sheets, to swell the already mountain bulk of our illustrious bonfire.
There was a silence, then: "Are ye sure o' that, Angus?" "Sure, Sergeant I was in Amiens for three months." Tam said nothing and presently began whistling softly. He walked to his book-shelf, took down a thin, paper-covered volume and sank back on the bed. "That will do, Angus," he said presently; "ca' me at five."
"And your toilet-cover sister Marie's work is, I think, extremely pretty: and the book-shelf that Father Gabriel gave you very convenient. Your friends here, my dear, are fond of you. They are anxious to make you happy." "They are all very kind to me, madam." "I am glad you are sensible of it. You are not of an ungrateful nature, we all know." "I hope not: but, madam, I cannot stay here always."
He had run over the book-shelf in his own room, shrinking painfully from any of his common religious favorites as one shrinks from touching a still sore and throbbing nerve, and had at last carried off a volume of Spenser. And so the night began to wear away. For the first hour or two, every now and then, a stifled sob would make itself just faintly heard.
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