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"For that matter," continued the builder, "there has been no one on board to-day save those who belong aboard." "No; no one but ourselves has been on the boat to-day." "None of us would throw it overboard, knowing how precious a tool it is," declared Mr. Farnum, glancing about him bewildered. "It was hardly possible to mislay such a thing by accident. Where on earth can it be, then?"
And that's what we're going to do." Maizie, with a sigh, yielded the point. But, "David," she said earnestly, "promise me one thing, won't you?" "Of course, Maizie. Anything but the one." "Then, if anything happens and if you should happen to mislay those spectacles and by mistake, of course put on another pair, you won't judge her too harshly, will you?
Neither was it possible for them in the various establishments to any longer avail themselves of the confusion to carelessly mislay things. In fact, visitors came and guests left, but everything after all went off quietly, unlike the disorderly way which prevailed hitherto, when there was no clue to the ravel; and all such abuses as indolence, and losses, and the like were completely eradicated.
Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again on the pavements of Paris. It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth.
Selwyn, made another bow to George, and said he had a letter to him from Lord March, which he had had the ill-fortune to mislay. George has put him up for the club, it appears, in conjunction with March, and no doubt these three lambs will fleece each other. Meanwhile, my pacified savage sate down with us, and buried the hatchet in another bowl of punch, for which these gentlemen must call.
"I think I understand now your exact position in the house, as well as the value of the paper which you say you have lost. The next thing for me to hear is how you came to have charge of this paper, and under what circumstances you were led to mislay it. Do you not feel quite ready to tell me?" "Is is that necessary?" Mrs. Quintard faltered. "Very," replied Violet, watching her curiously.
"I need no longer feel as though I'd murdered a child!" "I should think you were always losing things," Helen remarked, looking at him meditatively. "I don't lose things," said Hewet. "I mislay them. That was the reason why Hirst refused to share a cabin with me on the voyage out." "You came out together?" Helen enquired.
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