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Updated: May 3, 2025
Amber and Julia had brought, among other wedding presents, a day or two before, and now four strokes sounded from a silvery-voiced pet of a timepiece on the mantelshelf. The owners looked at it, arrested and pleased. "It is really the prettiest clock I have ever seen," said Marie. "I like the tone," said Osborn, "I can't bear a harsh clock. Darling, that's four. You want tea. I'll get it."
She went to the Mont-de-Piete, and when she returned a half-hour later she laid a silver five-franc piece on the mantelshelf and placed the ticket with the others between the two candlesticks. "This is what they gave me," she said coldly. "I wanted six francs, but they would not give them. They always keep on the safe side there, and yet there is always a crowd."
"You bought me body and soul, but by Heaven!" he cried, "you have not bought my family, sir!" Weirmarsh moved uneasily in his chair. "And so you refuse to do this service which I requested of you, yesterday, eh?" he asked very slowly. "I do." A silence fell between the two men, broken only by the low ticking of the little Sheraton clock upon the mantelshelf.
He led the way through a hall into a sitting-room and left me there. The place was a perfect museum of art treasures, old Dutch and Italian masters on the walls, some splendid Florentine chests, a fine old dresser loaded with ancient pewter. On a mantelshelf was an extraordinary collection of old keys, each with its label. "Key of the fortress of Spandau, 1715."
'Oh, is he though! said the boy, shaking his head. 'Why, the Sword Bearer's better than him. He draws his sword sometimes. 'And a pretty figure he cuts with it for his pains, returned the Uncle. 'Listen to me, Wally, listen to me. Look on the mantelshelf. 'Why who has cocked my silver mug up there, on a nail? exclaimed the boy. I have, said his Uncle. 'No more mugs now.
And although he would have bartered many things once accounted of price for the right to crush her in his arms he rose to his feet again and moved away to the corner of the mantelshelf, for the nearness and the touch of her intoxicated him. Flamby did not stir. The mound of ashes settled lower in the grate. Paul took up his hat and walked to the door. "Good night, Flamby," he said. "Wait for me.
Morgan picked up the fallen candle, lighted it and replaced it on the mantelshelf. The wax was broken in the middle, and the top part leaned disconsolately to one side. "We are sorry to have unwittingly interfered with your little arrangement," said Margaret, curtseying in mock apology. "But you are quite welcome to make free of my humble abode, so we shall leave you in possession. Come, Morgan."
"I have come back again, Hi," said Levi, and at the sound of the words the speechless spell was broken. Hiram answered never a word, but he walked to the fireplace, set the candle down upon the dusty mantelshelf among the boxes and bottles, and, drawing forward a chair upon the other side of the hearth, sat down. His dull little eyes never moved from his stepbrother's face.
From the mantelshelf the lamp emitted its feeble rays, dimly lighting the lonely chamber, and holding, as with uncertain hand, the shadows which crowded and cowered in the distant corners and recesses of the room, and throwing into Rembrandtesque the pallid face of the wakeful mother, and the flushed and fevered face of the slumbering child.
But only his Uncle Moses ever gave him an actual farthing, and Dave deposited it in a cat on the mantelshelf, who was hollow by nature, and provided by art with a slot in the dorsal vertebrae. It could be shook out if you wanted it, and Dave occasionally took it out of deposit in connection with a course of experiments he was interested in. He wished to determine how far he could spit it out.
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