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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Let's see," said Feversham, and ringing a handbell upon the table, sent the servant for the Army List. Bending over that Army List the two veterans may be left. But of one other figure in this story a final word must be said.
For more than an hour he labored on resolutely, munching a bit of dry bread from time to time. Then he paused a little, and began to think again. Gradually the summer twilight faded, and the room grew dark. "Perhaps we shall tide over to-night, after all who knows?" said Lomaque, ringing his handbell for lights.
"Captain Bridgeman, you appear to live in this library; I wonder Mrs Keene don't take you into partnership." "If I were not honoured with the custom of Mrs Handbell and other ladies; I fear that my shop would have little attraction for gentlemen," replied my mother, with a courtesy.
"Certainly." "To offer him his life?" "And that of his charming wife." "In exchange for what?" "His honour." "He will refuse, Monsieur." "We shall see." Then he touched a handbell which stood on the table, and within a few seconds the door was opened and the soldier who had led Marguerite hither, re-entered the room. The interview was at an end. It had served its purpose.
Derrick placed a novel and a small handbell within his reach, and we were just going, when we were checked by a volley of oaths from the Major; then a book came flying across the room, well aimed at Derrick's head. He stepped aside, and let it fall with a crash on the sideboard. "What do you mean by giving me the second volume when you know I am in the third?" fumed the invalid.
Balderby touched the spring of a handbell upon his table. "Ask Mr. Austin to bring the daily balance and deposit accounts ledgers," he said to the person who answered his summons. Clement Austin appeared five minutes afterwards, carrying two ponderous morocco-bound volumes. Mr. Balderby opened both ledgers, and placed them before his senior partner. Henry Dunbar looked at the deposit account.
That must be why Dad always called them: 'Those fellows! She had scarcely, however, finished beginning to think these thoughts when a handbell sounded sharply in some adjoining room, and the young woman nearly fell into her typewriter. Readjusting her balance, she rose, and, going to the door, passed out in haste.
Arrived at Goa, Xavier was shocked at the depravity of the people, settlers as well as natives; for the former had imported the vices without the restraints of civilization, and the latter had only been too apt to imitate their bad example. Passing along the streets of the city, sounding his handbell as he went, he implored the people to send him their children to be instructed.
Half an hour later her maid came quietly out to ask whether she needed anything, and seeing that she was sleeping peacefully spread a light shawl over her feet, placed the silver handbell within easy reach on the table, and went away again. Towards evening Folco came back and then the men, straggling in on their tired little horses, for they had ridden far and fast. Marcello was not with them.
A distant handbell tinkled, and as Pina heard it through the open door she rose to her feet, for it was Ortensia's means of calling her. Cucurullo thought over the conversation and reasoned about it with himself most of the night, and, so far as Pina was concerned, the more he reflected the farther he got from the truth.
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