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In the middle of the room a large library-table groaned beneath a mass of books and papers, some of them arranged in formal order, others disarranged by present use into that irregular order which seems chaotic to every eye but one, while for that one the displacement of a single sheet would insure perplexity and loss of time.
Certainly, if she could have looked through the piles of papers as we intend to do which lay upon that library-table, far beyond the seas and mountains, she would have perceived some objections to the scheme of living at peace with that diligent letter-writer.
Laudersdale stood by an open casement; the servant who had carried her note came up the lawn and spoke to her from without. There was no one in the house, and he had left it on the library-table. The pressure of those tender little arms was yet warm about the mother's neck; she glanced sidelong at the sleeping child. "He shall never see that note!" she murmured, and slipped through the casement.
Yates," said Mr. Balfour, "have you ever seen this letter before?" Yates took the letter, looked it over, and then said: "I have, sir. I found the letter in a drawer of the library-table, in Mr. Belcher's house at Sevenoaks. I delivered it unopened to the man to whom it was addressed, leaving him to decide the question as to whether it belonged to him or the writer.
Laura said she should make me presents only of innumerable stitches: which she had done. Polly, whom it is both impossible and irrelevant to describe, took the opportunity to scrub the house from top to bottom. Her own wedding-present to me, homely though it was, I wrapped in silver paper, and showed it to her lying in state on the library-table, to her infinite amusement.
In time the craving was evolved for positive knowledge, and shells and stones and weeds were deposited on the library-table at Copsley, botanical and geological books comparingly examined, Emma Dunstane always eager to assist; for the samples wafted her into the heart of the woods. Poor Sir Lukin tried three days of their society, and was driven away headlong to Club-life.
"No man could possibly feel more deeply your generous good will toward me and mine manifested from the beginning until now than I do, Doctor. But I cannot permit the obligation to rest all on one side." He pulled out a drawer of the library-table, as he said this, and taking therefrom a broad parchment document, laid it down, and while his hand rested upon it continued
Some extra sticks of hickory would be brought in and piled on the andirons, and the huge library-table, always covered with the magazines of the day Littell's, Westminster, Blackwood's, and the Scientific Review, would be pushed back against the wall to make room.
'That's not going to be done, Wegg, replied Mr Boffin, sitting composedly on the library-table, at one end, while the Secretary sat composedly on it at the other. 'Bof fin! Not going to be done? repeated Wegg. 'Not at your peril? 'No, Wegg, said Mr Boffin, shaking his head good-humouredly. 'Not at my peril, and not on any other terms.
The principal objects which it contains are a library-table, with ink-stand, presse-papier, paper-knives, and other articles in keeping, and in the opposite corner a large bookcase. The collection of books is remarkable, not from the number of volumes or the presence of rare editions, but from the variety of the subjects.
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