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In it was a neatly-folded vellum document, with about twenty lines of writing. I possess a copy of an astrological work which I have never read. It has, by way of frontispiece, a woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, representing a number of sages seated round a table. This detail may enable connoisseurs to identify the book.

In ten minutes she came aft, with her arms full of neatly-folded white material, and disappeared below. Then she came on deck again, had a further search, and this time carried off a load of coloured fabric; after which she remained invisible for nearly three-quarters of an hour.

Miss Sommerton smiled in spite of herself, and Trenton busily unstrapped the camera-box, pulled out the little instrument, and fished up from the bottom a neatly-folded white table-napkin, in which were wrapped several sandwiches. "Now," he continued, "I have a folding drinking-cup and a flask of sherry. It shows how absent-minded I am, for I ought to have thought of the wine long ago.

I always had wanted a chance at that camphor-trunk; and the above cloak, too nice to be worn, lay in the bottom underneath a mighty weight of neatly-folded articles of winter raiment. It came out with a "long pull" and many a "strong pull" and I got to the door with the head of it, while the whole length of this precious bright coating was dragging on the floor.

She went to the dresser, opened the lower drawer, and reached under the pile of neatly-folded clothing. Cold as ice, Miriam sprang to her feet. She was wide awake now, but the room was empty. The door was open, half-way, and she could not remember whether she had left it so when she went to bed.

All her hatred of Captain Wragge hissed out of her lips in those two words. "Oblige me, sir, by holding one side of my traveling-bag," she resumed, "while I open it and take something out." The interior of the bag disclosed a series of neatly-folded papers, all laid together in order, and numbered outside. Mrs.

It seems to me I am getting old fast nothing tells on a man like that," said Mr. Verne, smiling and drawing from the pigeon-hole of a small desk a neatly-folded letter. "My little girl refers to you listen to this" and the fond father read a portion of the letter, in which she referred to the young lawyer, and begged that her father would convey her thanks for the very great thoughtfulness of Mr.

Hullo, who's that? I thought you had worked through the lot. Come in! A small form appeared in the doorway, carrying in its right hand a neatly-folded note. 'Monk told me to give you this, Gethryn. 'Half a second, said the Bishop, as the youth made for the door. 'There may be an answer. 'Monk said there wouldn't be one. 'Oh. No, it's all right. There isn't an answer. The door closed.

I had ventured upon deck and thrown myself down, without attracting any notice, among a pile of ratlin-stuff and old sails in the bottom of the yawl. While musing upon the singularity of my fate, I unwittingly daubed with a tar-brush the edges of a neatly-folded studding-sail which lay near me on a barrel.

"Has there no note come for me?" asked Hardenberg. "Yes, there has, your excellency," said Conrad, in a low and anxious tone. "Two letters, your excellency." "Give them to me." Conrad cast a searching glance over the room; he then drew two tiny, neatly-folded letters from his bosom and handed them to the minister.

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