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‘Your card-case? snuff-box? the key of your lodgings?’ continued Kitterbell, pouring question on question with the rapidity of lightning. ‘No! no!’ ejaculated Dumps, still diving eagerly into his empty pockets. ‘Not—not—the mug you spoke of this morning?’ ‘Yes, the mug!’ replied Dumps, sinking into a chair. ‘How could you have done it?’ inquired Kitterbell. ‘Are you sure you brought it out?’
He ran to Guerchard's cloak, took the card-case from the inner pocket, went to the writing-table, and sat down. He took from his waist-coat pocket the permit which Guerchard had given him, and a pencil. Then he took a card from the card-case, set the permit on the table before him, and began to imitate Guerchard's handwriting with an amazing exactness.
"Well, no, miss, I don't think he is dead," the chemist answered, "though I must say he looks uncommon like it. There's something more the matter with him than this rap on the 'ead. Here's his card-case now let's see: 'Sir Victor Catheron, Bart. Fenton's 'Otel. Fenton's 'Otel. Bobby, I say, let's horder a cab and 'ave him driven there." "Somebody ought to go with him," said X 2001.
"A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for her card-case, she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson's opening of fall bonnets at two o'clock! "And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary, I thought of her now.
My hand at once fell upon a card-case, and I found on all the cards it contained the title of the Earl of Chetney. His watch and cigarette-case also bore his name. These evidences, and the fact of his bronzed skin, and that his cheekbones were worn with fever, convinced me that the dead man was the African explorer, and the boy who had fled past me in the night was Arthur, his younger brother.
"Oh, father, none at all. I've behaved beautifully just like a real, grown-up lady! In the morning I pursued my avocations, and in the afternoon I went out calling, with light kid gloves and a card-case. Every one was out but old Mrs Reed, and you would have loved it if you could have heard us talk! We discussed the weather in all its branches.
"Certainly," Seebrook assented cordially, drawing out his card-case. "We shall be ready for a little sociability," remarked the Governor, "when we return from the West. We are motoring from Portland to Portland, with a few little side trips like this, and we ought to have some good yarns to tell when we get back." "You are not running off immediately?" asked Walters. "Mr.
"'What does it mean? "I translated the phrase into English: 'My heart burns with a great flame'; and Susanna repeated it several times, and begged me to write it in her card-case. "Her friend skimmed some pages in Baedeker and said: "'It seems that the house of two saints martyred by Julian the Apostate is preserved here. "I assured them that that was an error.
"Do you know where they have gone?" asked Carrissima. "Colonel Faversham told the chauffeur to drive to Richmond." "To Richmond thank you," said Carrissima. "I will come another day." Then she turned away with the card-case still in her hand and a heavier weight at her heart. She wished she had never gone to Crowborough that summer five years ago!
But she could not help suspecting that he was off on some jaunt with Bridget, and no doubt she felt a little bitter about it. "Shall I?" he answered, with a laugh. "Don't take too much for granted. I may get a snack at the club. Anyhow, you had better not wait." She understood that he did not intend to return and wondered how she should dispose of her silver card-case.
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