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Mr S. Messre led the way to a place at the back of the shop which was layered with dust and strewn with cotton-wool and dental appliances, some of them smeared from the preceding victims, evidently. He did not seem to know how to dispose of me, so I placed myself in the professional chair and invited him to examine the broken molar.
Évariste walked beside Élodie, smilingly recalling memories of their first meetings: "Two young birds had fallen out of their nests on the roof on to the sill of your window. You brought the little creatures up by hand; one of them lived and in due time flew away. The other died in the nest of cotton-wool you had made him. 'It was the one I loved best, I remember you said.
He takes out a tool or two, and before I knew where I was he'd made a clean cut or two and taken off some more of my finger, right down to the middle joint. `There, he says, as soon as he'd put some cotton-wool soaked with nasty stuff on the place, after sewing and plastering it up `there, that'll heal up quickly and well now!" "Of course," said Denham. "Made a clean job of it."
I should never have uttered a word if it were not for your good." "Any one would imagine," was the answer, "that I had been wrapped in cotton-wool all my life. I suppose I should have been if you could have managed it. Well, I am off to Weymouth Street at once," added Jimmy. Carrissima felt compelled to go to Charteris Street.
Besides, women are so naively saucy, so pretty, graceful, and withal so true in lying, they recognize so fully the utility of doing so in order to avoid in social life the violent shocks which happiness might not resist, that lying is seen to be as necessary to their lives as the cotton-wool in which they put away their jewels.
On the window-sill, in the space between the outer and inner panes, was something resembling a long deep line of snow, which was, however, merely a mass of cotton-wool placed there as an additional protection against the external air.
She took it up and put it down again, and then again she took it up, wiping the cold perspiration from her forehead. "My whole life is at stake," she thought. Then she hesitated no longer, but, taking the letter, slipped off the piece of twine, and drew its contents from the envelope. The first thing to fall out, wrapped in a little cotton-wool, was the ring.
Now let your men come I'm ready for them." Guerchard ran to the door and shouted again. "I think the fat's in the fire now," said Lupin, laughing. He sprang to the table, opened the cardboard box, whipped off the top layer of cotton-wool, and took out a shining bomb.
There was a pad of cotton-wool, a half-empty bottle of chloroform, bearing the label of a well-known wholesaler, and one of a pair of old wash-leather gloves, which had evidently been worn by somebody in his desire to avoid leaving finger-prints. "We've not much to go on there," said Stafford disconsolately; "the chloroform may have been sold years ago.
This fact somewhat reassured Gamelin; his heart was like to fail him as it was, and he could not have endured the heated atmosphere of one of the great days. His eyes took in the most trifling details of the scene, the cotton-wool in the greffier's ear and a blot of ink on the Deputy Prosecutor's papers.
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