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"But what is there to wait for?" he demanded. "I must see my lawyers first," she answered slowly, "and before I leave London I must pay some bills." The Count drew a cheque book from his pocket. "I will keep my word," he said. "I will pay you on account the amount we spoke of." The Princess opened her escritoire briskly. "There is a pen and ink there," she said, "and blotting paper.
He took forth Nora's manuscripts as he spoke. "Place them yonder, in my escritoire, Leonard; I will read them later." "Do so, and with heed; for to me there is much here that involves my own life, much that is still a mystery, and which I think you can unravel!"
The cardinal could scarcely keep his countenance, but he said sternly, "Choose the gallows or a mitre." "Ah!" said the priest, maliciously; "a good fat abbey." Thereupon the cardinal went back into the room, opened an escritoire, and scribbled upon a piece of parchment an order to the envoy of France.
One of the wisest of our modern philosophers says that we are sure to meet with the right book at the right time. Now whether it were chance, fate, or Providence that filled the scanty shelves of the old escritoire with a few law books, is not known; but it is certain that their presence there decided the career of Ishmael Worth.
The first misfortune of my married life, came in the person of Margaret Melville. She burst into the boudoir one morning like a young tornado, seizing me in her strong arms, and giving me a shower of kisses, before I had time to recover from my astonishment. Ernest and myself were seated side by side by the escritoire.
The door opened, and his landlady's dirty little daughter put her towsled head through the little space behind the doorpost. "They're down below; shall I send 'em up?" "Certainly, Jane. Tell the gentlemen that I shall be pleased to see them." The dirty face vanished as the door closed. Phadrig shut down the top of the big escritoire and locked it. Heavy treads sounded on the rickety stairs.
Stretching his arm to the escritoire, he softly opened a side drawer, took out an oval-shaped engraving of his favourite Sappho, and compared the nose, chin, and ear with those of the unconscious girl. Satisfied with the result, he restored the picture to its hiding-place.
Her grace and lightness were astonishing, and one day, coming down dressed to go in the carriage, she raced across the library, opened her escritoire, hunting through its innumerable drawers for one of the sums of money which she kept there wrapped up in pieces of paper. "How nice you look! You are quite well now, and your figure is like a girl of fifteen."
"Let us first look around a moment," said he, "to find, if possible, some trace of the hellish assassins." The lamps burned brightly, shedding a glare of light over every object in the secret chamber. Cadet looked narrowly round, but found little trace of the murderers. The drawers of the escritoire stood open, with their contents in great disorder, a circumstance which at once suggested robbers.
The rest of the furniture was of the most different styles, and bore the traces of many generations. A superb Louis XVI chest of drawers, bound with polished brass, stood between two Louis XV armchairs which were still covered with their original brocaded silk. A rosewood escritoire was opposite the mantelpiece, on which, under a glass shade, was a clock made in the time of the Empire.
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