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For all this Jeremy, at his present stage of interest, would have cared nothing even had he known it, but what he did care for were the rows of calf-bound books with little ridges of gold, that made a fine wall across the window with an old print of the Cathedral and the Close in the middle of them. Inside Pontings there was a hush as of the study and the church combined.
He held in one hand a large calf-bound volume, from which evidently he was expounding something to Mr. Karkeek. The contrast between the expensive informality of Mr. Cannon's new suit and the battered ceremoniousness of Mr. Karkeek's struck her just as much as the contrast between their demeanours; and she felt, vaguely, the oddness of the fact that the name of the deferential Mr.
The room was an old and rather frowsy one, with shabby leather furniture from which the stuffing protruded, panelled walls, a carpet almost threadbare, and a formidable array of calf-bound volumes in the cases lining one wall. The place was heavy with tobacco-smoke as the pair, reclining in easy-chairs, were in the full enjoyment of very excellent cigars.
"Thérèse, darling," said Julie, "will you go up-stairs, please, and fetch me that book from my room that has your little drawings inside it?" The child limped away on her errand. In spite of her lameness she moved with wonderful lightness and swiftness, and she was back again quickly with a calf-bound book in her hand. "Léonie!" said Julie, in a low voice, to Madame Bornier.
I've sent to the livery stable to engage Fly and Bess for the buckboard; they stand fire so nicely. I was sure you would go." They were to be married in the fall. The glamour was at its height. The plovers won the day or, rather, the afternoon over the calf-bound authorities. Littlefield began to put his papers away. There was a knock at the door. Kilpatrick answered it.
By the side of it was a small calf-bound diary. The inspector glanced over one of the pages and uttered an exclamation of disgust. "Here are some pretty entries," he cried. "'Feel the workings of grace within me! 'Prayed that I might be given a livelier interest in the Holy Scriptures! The book's full of that sort of thing!" he added, turning over the leaves.
On his way up the steps and along the lobby, he occasionally saluted some lawyer that plunged by him with a load of calf-bound volumes pressed ostentatiously under his arm, and paused once or twice to exchange words with a street inspector or petty official, who formed the small wires of his political machinery.
Good-bye, T. Jefferson, Jr. Let me know when you want me in your Cabinet." It was late that afternoon that Mary, looking for her husband, found him in the Judge's library. "What are you doing?" she asked, with lively curiosity. Truxton was sitting on the floor with a pile of calf-bound books beside him. "What are you doing, lover?" "Come here and I'll tell you."
Shelves of calf-bound law books; piles of japanned deed-boxes, some marked in white letters 'Trustees of, or 'Executors of' and pigeon-holes full of papers seem to quite hide the walls. On the wall hangs a section of the Ordnance map of the district. But the large table, which almost fills the centre of the room, quickly draws the attention from everything else.
It was a brown calf-bound book, much worn, and on its title-page it bore the title of 'The Wars of Jerusalem, of Flavius Josephus, translated by S. Calmet, and a date somewhere in the middle of the eighteenth century. To this antique fare the boy settled himself down.
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