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He looked at the bed, which hadn't been smoothed or touched since he had lain in it a month ago. He remembered it as uncomprehendingly as one remembers mislaying a lost object in a forgotten place. He remembered waking. But the rest he had done was lost in the shadows. "So this is where it happened here! How have I ever been in this room before?" "What happened?" she asked him eagerly, firmly.
His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance. "I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings.
And although he had latterly acquired a considerable amount of social savoir, he was constantly mislaying it, so that he could not put his hand on it at the moment when he most required it, as now. "Well, Denry!" said the wondrous creature in black, softly. And he collected himself as though for a plunge, and said: "Well, Ruth!"
Doesn't do to be too fussy." She is a careless woman. She is always mislaying that early husband. And she has an unfortunate knack of finding him at the wrong moment. Perhaps that is the Problem: What is a lady to do with a husband for whom she has no further use?
Here: "The theft or mislaying, as the Department hopes it will prove to be took place several days ago.
I would employ cleverness to maintain the throne of reason when it is likely to be upset in the mind by one of these devastating and disgraceful insurrections of brute instinct. It is useless for a man in the habit of losing or mislaying his temper to argue with himself that such a proceeding is folly, that it serves no end, and does nothing but harm.
I have a theory that for reasons best known to themselves plumbers make a practice of mislaying and losing their tools. I supposed that having once begun their work these plumbers would push it to completion. I never undertake anything that I do not keep at it until it is done and finished, and I think that this rule obtains among most of the professions and trades.
"Why, no," he said, "nobody at home comes to the office not even a visitor, except, of course, my junior partner, who visits the room pretty frequently." "Very well. You don't remember ever mislaying the keys temporarily, I suppose, either here or at home?" "No-o," Mr. Bell replied slowly. "I can't say that I do remember anything of the sort.
She will have endeavoured to soothe her wounded feelings by putting spiders on Sybil, changing Serena's book, mislaying Madame's alderman, which is neither more nor less than the name Gatty has given that great fat pencil with which Madame marks their books, and rat-ta-ta-tals them up when they are looking dull and stupid." Mother. "Don't come without her, however, for she is the strongest.
Then they take turns at suggesting how the proposed work should be done, and one after another they get down upon their knees and peer into closets and holes and under floors and into dark places, after which some of them go back to the "shop," for more things, while the others either sit around doing nothing or busy themselves at losing and mislaying the tools they have already at hand.
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