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Updated: May 29, 2025
Fitch did not live to do full justice to his remarkable talent. One of the ablest of recent openings is that of Mr. Galsworthy's Silver Box. The curtain rises upon a solid, dull, upper-middle-class dining-room, empty and silent, the electric lights burning, the tray with whiskey, siphon and cigarette-box marking the midnight hour.
She stood looking at the paper for a moment, her face quite unmoved from its quiet sadness. The boy asked, "Any answer?" "No," she said decisively, shaking her head. "No answer." As he lingered, lighting a cigarette, she put a question in her turn, "Anything to pay?" "No," said the boy, putting the cigarette-box back in his pocket, "Nothing to pay."
We then ascended to the room again, when, by upsetting the cigarette-box, I obtained a very excellent view of the floor, and was able to see quite clearly, from the traces upon the cigarette ash, that the prisoner had, in our absence, come out from her retreat. Well, Hopkins, here we are at Charing Cross, and I congratulate you on having brought your case to a successful conclusion.
I want the old world back the womanly women, everybody labeled, and Beethoven." He pushed the cigarette-box fretfully across to Tabs, having first selected one for himself. "Beethoven," he snorted, "that's what I want, and no bobbed hair and everybody happily married." "This New Army chap who's with Terry," Tabs paused to make his voice unanxious and ordinary, "does she see much of him?
The silver cigarette-box, which we have all had as a birthday or wedding present, might safely be handed over to the incoming tenant, in the certainty that another just like it will be waiting for us in our next house. True, it will have different initials on it, but that will only make it the more interesting, our own having become fatiguing to us by this time.
There was a silver cigarette-box beside me, and I saw that it had been won by Percival Appleton, Esq., of the St Bede's Club, in a golf tournament. I had to keep a firm hold of Peter Pienaar to prevent myself bolting out of that house. 'Well, said the old man politely, 'are you reassured by your scrutiny, Sir? I couldn't find a word.
Crosse, splendidly! cried Owen. 'I never heard a better day's work in my life. Now, if you will give me your cheque and wait here, I will go over and settle everything. 'And please bring the bond back with you, said Maude. So it was that Frank, coming down upon the morning of his birthday, perceived a pretty silver cigarette-box laid in front of his plate. 'Is this for me, my darling?
Hearing the maid's knock, and her murmured: "Count Rosek to see you, sir," he thought: 'What the devil does he want? A larger nature, drifting without control, in contact with a smaller one, who knows his own mind exactly, will instinctively be irritable, though he may fail to grasp what his friend is after. And pushing the cigarette-box toward Rosek, he turned away his head.
The conversation paused. Every one finished his brandy-and-soda, and the correction of proofs was continued in silence, interrupted only by an occasional oath or a word of remonstrance from Frank, who begged Drake, a huge-shouldered man, whose hand was never out of the cigarette-box, not to drop the lighted ends on the carpet. Mike was reading Harding's article.
I exchanged some remarks with him, therefore, and obtained his courteous permission to write the short note which you afterwards received. I left it with my cigarette-box and my stick and I walked along the pathway, Moriarty still at my heels. When I reached the end I stood at bay. He drew no weapon, but he rushed at me and threw his long arms around me.
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