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Updated: June 6, 2025
There is nothing more to say; but one may well be distressed at having an adored friend, a captive in chains far away, whom one may not free. It is perhaps a little coquettish on your part, so as to make yourself pitied and loved the more. Tourgueneff has been more fortunate than we, since he was able to snatch you from your ink-well.
The Souvenir Company salesmen had not been able to get from the South the business which the company deserved if right and justice were to prevail. On the steamer from England Mr. Wrenn had conceived the idea that a Dixieland Ink-well, with the Confederate and Union flags draped in graceful cast iron, would make an admirable present with which to draw the attention of the Southem trade.
Don Andrés sat looking at the writing articles on the marble table: a letter-case of wrinkled oil-cloth, and a grimy ink-well. He began to rap upon them with the holder of the public pen rusty and with the points bent an instrument of torture well fitted for a hand committed to despair! "We have just an hour to catch our train! Come, Rafael, be a man! There's still time!
"Perhaps he doesn't care!" And as if in answer to Chauvelin's puzzled musing a deep snore escaped the sleeping adventurer's parted lips. Chauvelin sighed, perplexed and troubled. He looked round the little room, then went up to a small side table which stood against the wall and on which were two or three quill pens and an ink-well, also some loosely scattered sheets of paper.
John picked up the ink-well, staring in complete amazement at the hard knot of ribbon with which it was garnished. "They seem to have been here some time." "They have; I reckon they're almost due to be called in. They've be'n up ever sence sence " "Who put them up, Ross?" "We did." "What for?" Ross was visibly embarrassed. "Why fer fer the other editor." "For Mr. Fisbee?" "Land, no!
I feel in excellent spirits, and haven't drank a drop so that I hope soon to get out of trouble. Yes, let us clear the typewriter off the table: an ink-well is a sacred thing. Do you ever stop to think, when you see the grimy spattered desks of a public post-office, how many eager or puzzled human hearts have tried, in those dingy little ink-cups, to set themselves right with fortune?
Presently his eyes dimmed, and he looked beyond the locket. Hamilton St. John's ink-well was a globe of glass, with a hole like a thimble in the top to contain ink. Hannibal found himself looking at this, and noting the perfect miniature reproduction of the big calendar on the wall, as it was refracted by the glass.
Next I am taken to an office, just as if I were in business like the Ink-Well Dwarf, and now I am being taken to the home of Mirabell and Arnold. I wonder what will happen next." He did not have to wait long to find out. Down the street walked the Man, and soon he was within sight of his home, where Mirabell and Arnold lived. The two children were out in front, waiting for their father.
This heavy, black, and jagged line is the river road. They both took the river road, as both had said they would my brother to me, the murderer to a man at the Cross Roads Inn. The negro boy kept on by the main road. Where is this riven oak?" He dipped the quill into the ink-well. "I correct my map according to my better knowledge.
Having entered the total, he looked up again, laid down his pen, frowned with annoyance, and picked up an old pair of field-glasses that stood ready to hand on the sill of his desk beside the ink-well. He glanced at the clock on his chimney-piece before throwing up the window-sash.
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