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Updated: May 11, 2025
Rawdon sat down in the study before the Baronet's table, set out with the orderly blue books and the letters, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets, the locked account-books, desks, and dispatch boxes, the Bible, the Quarterly Review, and the Court Guide, which all stood as if on parade awaiting the inspection of their chief.
Further evidence of the business-like methods of the Minoan officials was given by the fact that many of the seals belonging to the various stores were countermarked on the face, and had their backs countersigned and endorsed, evidently by examining officials, while they appear to have been regularly filed and docketed for reference.
"But where is Uncle Melchior?" exclaimed Wilhelmina. "I believe he is working at accounts," the old gentleman answered addressing himself to vacancy, for she had already run from the room. He shook hands courteously and motioned me to find a chair, while he resumed his seat beside a little table heaped with letters, or rather with bundles of letters neatly tied and docketed.
The infinite number of things that are too small and too insignificant for him, are to have their place, duly docketed and dated, in your brain; and the very expression of his face should be an indication to you of what he is looking for and yet cannot remember. Do you mark me? 'Half-past ten, cried Atlee, as the clock chimed on the mantel-piece; and he hurried away without another word.
"I'll be hanged if I do. What are you driving at?" "At the fact that you have finally concluded to cancel the crooked deals with wait, and I'll give you the names of the co-respondents" and he drew a packet of neatly docketed letters from his pocket. "Hold on a minute," protested the traffic manager; "you're getting in rather too deep for me. Will you let me see those letters?"
It was the year of Menotti's conspiracy, and everything connected with that date was thrilling. I loosened the band and ran over the letters. Suddenly I came across one which was docketed: "Given by Doctor Briga's son to the warder of His Highness's prisons." Doctor Briga's son? That could be no other than Fernando: I knew he was an only child.
So sitting in that twilight room, flanked with piles of expended briefs, and surrounded with neatly docketed packets of attested copies, notices, affidavits, and other engines of legal war little Toole having expended his congratulations, and his private knowledge of Sturk's revelations, fell upon the immediate subject of his visit. He told me that the certificate
The proceeds of the sale were brought to the office early the next afternoon, a small packet neatly sealed and docketed one hundred thousand-dollar bills. Mr. Graham turned it over in his hand thoughtfully. "You'll take it to the house, of course, John," he said to his partner. "Lester 'd better go with you." So Mr. Royce placed the package in his pocket, a cab was summoned, and we were off.
The castle is full of public offices, and one sees in its courts and on its stairways, not brilliant men-at-arms, nor gay squires and pages, but whistling messengers going from one office to another with docketed papers, and slipshod serving-men carrying the clerks their coffee in very dirty little pots.
He chose the nearer date, and found Villiers sitting as usual by the window, apparently lost in meditation on the drowsy traffic of the street. There was a bamboo table by his side, a fantastic thing, enriched with gilding and queer painted scenes, and on it lay a little pile of papers arranged and docketed as neatly as anything in Mr. Clarke's office.
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