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Updated: June 2, 2025
James: Antiquities;" it says in gilt letters over the door on which you can still see the mark left by the professional name-plate of Doctor James. His wife had that taken off before she opened her shop, because she felt that her going into trade might seem to discredit "his honoured name." That is her great watchword: "his honoured name."
Leisure, the most valuable coin of humanity in the tropics, was spent by white or brown in pleasure or idleness with a prodigality that would have made Samuel Smiles weep. The entrance to the Cercle Bougainville was very plain, with no name-plate, as had the Militaire, a mere hole in the front wall of Leboucher's large furniture shop.
Me and the chief and his girl set on a blanket among the little piles of silver, and the rest of the merry villagers lined up close to the finish-line. We white men had been the prime attraction up till now, but it didn't take me long to see that we wasn't any more. Them people was all wrapped up in the lad with the gold name-plate, and they was rootin' for him frantic.
It was not quite ten o'clock; she would, at least, be close on the heels of Perlmer's departure from his office, if not actually ahead of time, and therefore she would be first on the scene, and yes, this was the place; here was Perlmer's name amongst those on the name-plate at the street entrance of a small three-story building. She entered the hallway, and found it deserted.
Thus you may be struck with a spot, set it down for the most romantic of the city, and, glancing at the name-plate, find it is in the same street that you yourself inhabit in another quarter of the town.
"The clostest shooting rifle you ever sighted eh?" he repeated. "Why, aren't you afraid of it?" "No," said Hannibal scornfully. "But she kicks you some if you don't hold her right." There was a rusty name-plate on the stock of the old sporting rifle; this had caught Carrington's eye. "What's the name here? Oh, Turberville."
I washed my hands, and thought I had finally removed all traces of the affair; but, coming back, I perceived something upon the floor which had escaped my notice. It was the leather collar of the Eskimo dog, with its big silver studs and the maker's silver name-plate. All this while the animal had remained perfectly quiet in the room crouching at Jacqueline's feet and beside the bed.
He little dreamed that this very house had once been described as a bijou residence. The third floor landing was terribly small and dark, and Mr. Prohack could scarcely decipher the name of his future son-in-law on the shabby name-plate.
The chief reason, by the way, of his conviction that he was bound for a show, lay in the fact that a long, bright steel chain was attached to his best green collar, with its brass name-plate bearing Finn's name and the Master's.
The house, partly paid for when he had a collision and lost his job in the Fort Line, was still called Fort William after his ship, and I could see that the name-plate had been carved out of teak by the carpenter to please 'the old man. How were the mighty fallen! You know, there was something pathetic to me in that man's drop from master to mate.
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