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Her forehead was creased with many wrinkles of thought, and she bit the end of her lead-pencil as if she were engaged in solving some difficult problem; but, if that were so, why did the dimples chase each other in and out of her cheeks in such a suspicious fashion?
Pencils were intended for marking fair surfaces might one not be used on this occasion for the cleaning of a sullied surface, that of a besmirched honour? One insulter of the Somal race had died by the stab of a piece of broken bottle. Might not another die by the stab of a lead-pencil? Doubtful. Very risky.
Constance had a mind to engage an errand-boy, a luxury against which Samuel had always set his face. She did not dream of asking the herculean Cyril to open and shut shop. He had apparently finished his home-lessons. The books were pushed aside, and he was sketching in lead-pencil on a drawing-block.
Next, Penrod turned up the surface of the sawdust in another corner of the floor, and drew forth a cigar-box in which were half a dozen cigarettes, made of hayseed and thick brown wrapping paper, a lead-pencil, an eraser, and a small note-book, the cover of which was labelled in his own handwriting: "English Grammar. Penrod Schofield. Room 6, Ward School Nomber Seventh."
How about these lead-pencil fellows that haven't done their work for years?" "That's it," explained Bunker, "we were having a meeting when we seen you horn in on Dave. These gentlemen are all men that have held their ground for years and it don't seem right they should lose it. At the same time it'll take something more than a slap on the wrist to make these blasted jumpers let go.
From these odds and ends Nelly had cut about a hundred tickets during the afternoon while she was in charge of the fruit-stand, and these Ben was converting into orders for admission by printing on them, in rather a shaky hand, and with a new lead-pencil he had bought for that express purpose, the following: GRATE SHOW. LeT WUN CUM iN 5 CeNTS
It was harder to do the rest. Next she laid the traced paper carefully over the space below, and taking her slate-pencil, went laboriously over each line with an absorbing zeal that left its mark in the soft drawing paper. Lastly she went over each indented line with a lead-pencil, carefully and frequently wetted in her little mouth. Miss Jenny exclaimed when she saw it. Mr. Bryan had gone.
Woodburn looked through the open kitchen-door with a smile at his daughter hidden behind a clean white apron and absorbed in the mysteries of the pastry board. Aunt Prudence was a little astonished, but she never would approve of Beth's way of doing things "didn't see the sense of a note-book and lead-pencil." But Beth knew what she was doing in that respect.
I handed her two pounds, and, after some protests at my extravagance, she bestowed them in her purse; a process that occupied time, since that receptacle, besides and time-stained bills, already bulged with a lading of draper's samples, ends of tape, a card of linen buttons, another of hooks and eyes, a lump of beeswax, a rat-eaten stump of lead-pencil, and other trifles that I have forgotten.
But there's been no word from Dinky-Dunk. The conviction is growing in my mind that he's not at Alabama Ranch. Monday the Twenty-first A letter has just come to me this morning from Whinstane Sandy, written in lead-pencil.
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