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Then she threw the door open, and led the girls in. "See, Katy," she said, "this is your bureau, and this is Clover's. And look what nice drawers papa has had put in the closet, two for you, and two for her. Aren't they convenient? Don't you like it? And isn't it a great deal pleasanter than the old room?" "Oh, a great deal," cried the girls. "It is delightful, every thing about it."
Bagshot, rather an ominous cognomen, offered to conduct the unsuspicious magistrate to the very spot where the miscreants might be seized. No sooner, however, had he drawn the poor justice away from his comrades into a lonely part of the road than he stripped him to his shirt. He did not even leave his worship his flannel drawers, though the weather was as bitter as the dog-days of 1829.
Gentlemen could no longer exist in these times! His gaze was drawn by the glitter of some enormous writing desks of Venetian workmanship, mounted upon antique tables sustained by lions. They seemed to have been made for giants; their innumerable deep drawers were inlaid in bright colors with representations of mythological scenes.
I found the front door, in fact, wide open, and in it Martin's wife, with gloom depicted on her face. The floors were covered with articles dragged out of the drawers in the rooms on the upper floor. In the garrets scores of books in the most appalling disorder were scattered from out of parcels and boxes.
Tell me where the key of the small storehouse is? I said not a word, and he waited a little, then rose, saying: 'It's your own fault if there is any damage done. He ordered Babalatchi to have the lock of the office-room forced, and went in rummaged amongst my drawers could not find the key. Then that woman Aissa asked my wife, and she gave them the key.
Sonia raised the flap of the bureau, and taking from one of the drawers a small portfolio, turned over the papers in it and handed a letter to the Duke. "This is the envelope," she said. "It's addressed to M. Gournay-Martin, Collector, at the Chateau de Charmerace, Ile-et-Vilaine." The Duke opened the envelope and took out a letter. "It's an odd handwriting," he said.
Thenceforward the nephew watched the uncle incessantly; during his absence he stole into his room, opened his baggage, and examined his drawers. And if he saw him near Clara at table, or when refreshments were handed around, he never took his eyes off him. But he could not be always at hand. One day the two men rode to the city in company.
The windows filled with laughing faces at the first sound of the shoeman's ironical voice; and at sight of his neat wagon, with its drawers at the rear and sides, and its buggy-hood over the seat where the shoeman lounged lazily holding the reins, the girls flocked down the stairs, and out upon the piazza where the shoe man had handily ranged his vehicle.
"I want you to believe me when I tell you," he said, "that I never gave serious thought to the notion of marrying Miss Martin until such a possibility was suggested last night by that swab, Ingerman." "Ah, Ingerman! You kept a record of what he said, I gather?" "Yes, here it is." Grant rose, and went to a writing-desk with nests of drawers which stood against the wall on the left of the door.
Of the drawers in the dresser some had been pulled out bodily, others stood half open, and all had been ransacked; while the fragments of china strewn along the shelves or scattered across the floor could only be accounted for by some blind ferocity of destruction a madman, for instance, let loose upon it, and striking at random with a stick.
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