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I was sitting in front of him, but I rose and pretended to shut the door, thus putting the table and the end of the piano between us, before I answered. "She is in Rome, Signor Conte," I said. "With Cardegna?" he asked, not betraying any emotion. "Yes." "Very well. I will have them arrested at once. That is all I wanted." He put his crutch-stick to the floor as though about to rise.
'I could make you, said Sloppy, surveying the room, 'I could make you a handy set of nests to lay the dolls in. Or I could make you a handy little set of drawers, to keep your silks and threads and scraps in. Or I could turn you a rare handle for that crutch-stick, if it belongs to him you call your father.
With which statement, and a further admonition to her father, who had come back, she blew her candles out, and taking her big door-key in her pocket, and her crutch-stick in her hand, marched off. Not many months later, one day while Miss Wren was waiting in the office of Pubsey and Co., for Mr.
For here was Miss Priscilla, looking smaller than ever, in a great arm chair whence she directed the disposal and arrangement of all things, with quick little motions of her crutch-stick.
He felt himself bound to conduct himself stiffly towards Fledgeby, and he made him a distant bow. Fledgeby made his small eyes smaller in taking special note of his manner. The dolls' dressmaker sat in her corner behind the door, with her eyes on the ground and her hands folded on her basket, holding her crutch-stick between them, and appearing to take no heed of anything.
The competition had commenced, and I was the tenth on the list. I could not remember what I had to say. Madame Guerard moistened my temples with cold water, and Mlle. de Brabender, who had only just arrived, did not recognise me, and looked about for me everywhere. She had broken her leg nearly three months before, and had to hobble about on a crutch-stick, but she had resolved to come.
Satisfied that her dwelling was safe, she drew one hand through the old man's arm and prepared to ply her crutch-stick with the other. But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. 'No, no, no! I'll carry it myself, returned Miss Wren. 'I'm awfully lopsided, you know, and stowed down in my pocket it'll trim the ship.
Then, opening his eyes wide as if he saw a miracle, and jauntily throwing his conical hat on the top of his wig, he took his crutch-stick under his arm, made one bound to the spinet, tore the lid off the hinges, and holding it above his head, ran like a madman out of the room, down the stairs, and away, away out of the house altogether, followed by the hearty laughter of Dame Caterina and both her daughters.
Miss Wren expected him. He could see her through the window, by the light of her low fire carefully banked up with damp cinders, that it might last the longer, and waste the less when she went out sitting waiting for him, in her bonnet. His tap at the glass roused her from the musing solitude in which she sat, and she opened the door, aiding her steps with a little crutch-stick.
I do not forgive you for presuming to love my daughter, and I will find means to remind you of the scandal you have brought on my house." He drew himself up to his full height. Nino handed him his crutch-stick civilly. "Signor Conte," he said simply, but with all his natural courtesy, "I am sorry for this affair, to which you forced me, or rather the Signora Baronessa forced us both.
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