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Updated: May 13, 2025
The model turned abruptly towards the fire-place, and, leaning his head against the mantel-shelf, stood with his back towards us, looking down into the fire. "You ask me why I did not tell you at once?" he said, very slowly. "Ay why not?"
She was standing absorbed in these thoughts before the fireplace, her elbow resting on the marble mantel-shelf. When the porte-cochere closed behind the carriage of the two notaries, she turned to her future son-in-law, impatient to solve her doubts. "This has been the most terrible day of my life," cried Paul, overjoyed to see all difficulties vanish.
She might be cold and grave as he, but underneath he knew there was a thwarted, hungry spirit, a strong, fine spirit as dainty Ariel. He would sting it to life, and tame it: it was his. "I thought you would come, Stephen," she said, simply, motioning him to a chair. Could this automaton be Margret? He leaned on the mantel-shelf, looking down with a cynical sneer. "Is that the welcome?
Resolute to neglect no clue, however slight, David sought Marston's companionship, and, as a reward, discovered one afternoon in a Crown Derby teacup on the mantel-shelf of the latter's room his own present of two years back. The exclamation which this discovery extorted aroused Marston. "What's up?" "Where did you get this?" "Why? Have you seen it before?"
"You will do no such thing, Miriam," he repeated, resuming his post by the mantel-shelf, without evincing the least discomposure at my behavior to him; "your own good sense, your own good feeling will come to your assistance when you look this matter fully in the face, and dispassionately, which I must say you are not doing now.
Left alone with his son, John Barty sat a while staring up at the bell-mouthed blunderbuss very much as though he expected it to go off at any moment; at last, however, he rose also, hesitated, laid down his pipe upon the mantel-shelf, glanced down at Barnabas, glanced up at the blunderbuss again and finally spoke: "And remember this, Barnabas, your your mother, God bless her sweet soul, was a great lady, but I married her, and I don't think as she ever regretted it, lad.
Opening the sliding-doors communicating with the dining-room beyond, he disappeared in the latter room, shutting the doors behind him. Being now alone for a moment on the scene of crime, I crossed over to the mantel-shelf, and lifted the clock that lay there. Why I did this I scarcely know. However that was, I lifted it up and set it upright, when to my amazement it began to tick.
He is mistaken. He looks into all the drawers and bureaus used by his wife and finds nothing. He searches every corner, he lifts up the shelves, overturns everything in the chamber nothing. An idea strikes him. Is this letter under the mantel-shelf? By a turn of the arm he lifts it down the clock tumbles and stops. It is not yet half-past ten."
But, burying his empurpled nose in a large red handkerchief, he passed off his emotion in a potent blast which made the ornaments on the mantel-shelf quake, and resumed in an unsteady voice: "I would have made a note and deferred to another day seeing the property you offer and learning its area, value, situation, advantages and defects for there is always some flaw in a terrestrial paradise, ha, ha!
The very blank, however, affected him more deeply than if it had been left. Then a handkerchief was thrown over the cage, to prevent the bird from singing; it was her favourite canary. The flowers upon the mantel-shelf were withered and drooping she had gathered them.
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