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Updated: June 12, 2025
If it were bigger, and if I didn't know that there have been no fabulous monsters for quite a long time now, I should almost think it was a dragon." The thing, whatever it was, did look rather like a dragon but then it was too small; and it looked rather like a lizard only then it was too big. It was about as long as a hearthrug.
"To tell you the truth, Penelope," she said, "I almost wish that he were not quite so devotedly attached to his country." Penelope was silent. They had reached Lady Grace's room now, and were standing together on the hearthrug in front of the fire. "I am afraid he is like that," Penelope said gently. "He seems to have none of the ordinary weaknesses of men.
"My ideas have changed and developed," I said. I walked across to her bearskin hearthrug, and stood by the mantel. "To think that you," she said; "you who might have been leader " She could not finish it. "All the forces of reaction," she threw out. "I don't think they are the forces of reaction," I said. "I think I can find work to do better work on that side." "Against us!" she said.
Keep it in your study, and it will make a moat round the hearthrug with tobacco pouches and manuscripts and boots whatever it can lay its hands on. It will even take the ideas out of a man's head, if it can't find anything better. Is there any logic in an animal that can do that?"
Gentlemen should never stand upon the hearthrug with their backs to the fire, either in a friend's house or their own. Forgetfulness is a breach of etiquette. It is impossible to be polite without cultivating a good memory.
One memory came to him with striking vividness a winter evening, in the dawn of his early manhood, when they had been sitting after dinner in the library at Craven Towers his mother lying on the sofa that had been rolled up before the fire, and himself sprawled on the hearthrug at her feet.
Here, stretched on the hearthrug before the grate, in which a bright cosy little fire was blazing and looking uncommonly cheery, although it was now summer, lay Rover. Without rising, he lazily greeted them by flopping his heavy tail, albeit he lifted his nose in the air and sniffed, as if in anticipation of sharing the coming meal with the welcome guests who so opportunely appeared.
The dog moved restlessly, and for a moment the whole world that sleepless world of the streets seemed to hold its breath. 'And if he dies, said Conyngham at length. 'Exactly so, answered the other with a laugh of scaffold mirth. Conyngham turned in his chair and sat with his elbows on his knees, his face resting on his closed fists, staring at the worn old hearthrug.
Cartwright weighed this for a time and then went to sleep. Frost sparkled on the office windows and Cartwright, with his feet on the hearthrug studied an Atlantic weather chart. The temperature reported by the liners' captains was low, and winter had begun unusually soon. Since Cartwright had hoped for a mild November, this was unlucky.
It was thus, in that very pose, and on that very hearthrug, that he had thought out more than one of those deep-laid schemes which had brought a certain measure of notoriety to the firm of which he was a shining light, and at that very moment he was engaged in deep consideration concerning the case in which his energies were at present absorbed.
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