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Updated: June 14, 2025
But the case is locked in my safe here, and the key, together with a full statement of the true facts of the matter, is hidden behind the first edition copy of my book 'Assyrian Mythology, in the smaller bookcase " "Why do you tell me all this?" I interrupted. He laughed harshly. "The identity of my pursuer has just dawned upon me," he said. "I know that my life is in real danger.
These she rolled up impatiently and stuffed away in her pattern bookcase. "I knew how to do them all the while, and I never knew I knew," she thought with annoyed surprise. "I s'pose I'll waste a lot of time pottering over him." It was so that she spent the weeks until the letter came telling her what day the child would start.
I began Elibanks and Elibraes, but the stanzas fell unenjoyed and unfinished from my listless tongue: at last I luckily thought of reading over an old letter of yours, that lay by me in my bookcase, and I felt something for the first time since I opened my eyes, of pleasurable existence. Well I begin to breathe a little, since I began to write to you. How are you, and what are you doing?
Lydia rose patiently and went to the bookcase. "You have a cousin at one of the universities, have you not?" she said, seeking along the shelf for a volume. "Yes," replied Alice, speaking very sweetly to atone for her want of amiability on the previous subject. "Then perhaps you know something of university slang?" "I never allow him to talk slang to me," said Alice, quickly.
"I had no idea she was a friend of yours, Mr. Grant," she stammered. "She used to be a friend, but I have not set eyes on her during the past three years until last night." "Last night!" "After you had gone home. I was doing some work, and, having occasion to consult a book, lighted a candle, and put it in the small window near the bookcase.
Nelson put his head down to the floor and closed one eye. He meant to aim straight at the row of beautiful new lead soldiers, but, as he afterward explained, the marble slipped before he was ready. It shot across the floor and went crash into the glass door of the bookcase. "What was that, Sunny Boy?
Aunt Jo found the garments she meant to give to Sam, the strange colored boy, and she and Rose and Vi came downstairs with them to the room in which the children had been playing at first. Russ and Laddie had set up the sectional bookcase once more and the room looked less like the wreck of an auction room, Mother Bunker said. She had returned with Margie and the boys.
In the corner, between the door and the window, there was a rosewood bookcase, with the bare shelves hidden behind plaited magenta silk, and directly above it hung an engraving of a group of amiable children feeding fish in a pond. Across the room, over the walnut whatnot, a companion picture represented the same group of children scattering crumbs before a polite brood of chickens in a barnyard.
"I must set fire to the house and escape in the confusion." He struck a safety match and held it to the leg of the table. It was a fireproof table and refused to burn. He held it to the door. The door was fireproof. He applied it to the bookcase. He ran the match along the books. They were all fireproof. Everything was fireproof.
The thought of "Vathek" always brings back with it my boyish memory of the big saloon at Bladesover. At either end of that great still place was an immense marble chimney-piece; the end by the bookcase showed the wolf and Romulus and Remus, with Homer and Virgil for supporters; the design of the other end I have forgotten.
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