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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Thank you, father; but I mustn't stay." He fumbled in his pocket, and fetched out a little paper-covered packet. "Will you say Mass for my intention, please?" And he laid the packet on the mantelshelf. The priest took up the coins and slipped them into his waistcoat pocket. "Certainly," he said. "I think I know " Laurie turned away with a little jerk. "I must be going," he said.
The most interesting bit of testimony which came out at the trial was this passage from a yellow paper-covered tale which had been discovered hidden in the haymow of the Grimshaw barn: "Lightfoot waited in the bushes with his trusty rifle in hand.
He carried a yellow paper-covered volume in his hand. I asked him if it contained any amusing reading. "I really do not know," he answered, indifferently, "I have only just bought it. It is by Victor Hugo." And he held up the title-page for me to see. "Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne," I read aloud with careful slowness. "Ah, indeed! You do well to read that. It is a very fine study!"
As he reached into his pocket for his case, his hand encountered a paper-covered volume, and he drew it out in some perplexity. "Now, how in the wide world did that book come in my pocket?" he muttered, frowning. "What have I been carrying it around for? I've forgotten. I declare I have." "What book is it?" "Hey? book? . . . h'm," he murmured, staring. Travis pounded on the table.
The camp was strewn with these engrossing, paper-covered works, and Yates had read many of them, hoping to came across a case similar to his own, but up to the time of Stoliker's visit he had not succeeded. "Hello, Stoliker! how's things? Got the cuffs in your pocket? Want to have another tour across country with me?" "No. But I came to warn you.
He found Virginia seated in a camp lounging-chair, with a paper-covered novel lying open face downward in her lap, gazing thoughtfully at the dusk which seemed rolling toward them over the sea like a fog. "It was a beautiful sunset," she said; "but now it has gone, the ocean seems to have such a cruel, cold look. And there are whispering voices on the water."
"Fetch me the blue paper-covered book you'll find on the second left-hand shelf of the low book-case in my room, Burton." He waited immovable while the man went on the errand, being quite determined to start unprompted by Mr. Masters if he started at all. The old butler came out and acknowledged Mr. Masters's presence with a deferential bow. He addressed himself to Christopher. "Mr.
Buildings corresponding to our American two-story houses are almost never seen in towns here and absolutely never in farming sections, the farm home, like the town home, usually consisting of a story and a half, with sliding walls of paper-covered sash between the rooms, a sort of box for the fire on which the meals are cooked, and no chimney little better, though much cleaner, than the negro cabins in the South.
Constance meanwhile stood in some embarrassment with one hand on the back of a chair a charming vision in her close fitting habit, and the same black tricorne that she had worn in the Lathom Woods, at Falloden's side. "I came to bring you a book, Otto, the book we talked of yesterday." She held out a paper-covered volume. "But I mustn't stay." "Oh, do stay!" he implored her.
Across the very coolest, darkest corner was swung a hammock, looking at which you might perceive two hands elevating a green paper-covered book, as though the owner were reading the aforesaid owner, however, being entirely invisible, only proving his existence by certain bulges and angles in the canvas of the hammock.
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