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He took a few steps toward them, bowed, motioned to two seats, and turned back to his divan, where he sat with one leg drawn under him. A book lay open beside him, and in his right hand he held an ivory paper-cutter, the end of which he observed from time to time with one eye, closing the other with the persistency of a near-sighted person.
A sense of at-homeness stole over me, I was more at home here in this room with Nancy, than in any other place in the world; here, where everything was at once soothing yet stimulating, expressive of her, even the smaller objects that caught my eye, the crystal inkstand tipped with gold, the racks for the table books, her paper-cutter. Nancy's was a discriminating luxury. And her talk!
He sat with it, passing it through his fingers, while she went on with her work. "Who gave you this paper-cutter?" he said, suddenly. "Goodness me, why do you ask? and especially, why do you ask in that way?" "I asked simply because if it is a present to you from any one, I will take up something else." "It was given me by Mr Grey."
Then he turned in his chair and crossed his knees, his hand fondling an ivory paper-cutter. He smiled a little. "Well, Mr. Hodder," he said. The rector, intensely on his guard, merely inclined his head in recognition that his turn had come. "I was sorry," the banker continued, after a perceptible pause, that you could not see your way clear to have come with me on the cruise."
She threw the paper-cutter on the desk and took a step toward the doctor, until her dress touched him. She stood looking down at him. "Oh, it's easy to fail!" She was breathing through her mouth and her throat was throbbing with excitement. As he looked up at her, Dr. Archie's hands tightened on the arms of his chair.
A girl of about fourteen she might have been a year or so younger was once sent from one of the stationer's shops to conclude some bargain with the sick paper-cutter. I saw her slender figure bound up the desolate steps with the light tread of youth, as if she had been a divine being entering the home of human sorrow.
"It was young writing, and made for the young. The opinions were charmingly wrong, and its enthusiasm was half Glenlivet. But this delighted the boys. There were no reprints then, and to pass the paper-cutter up the fresh inviting pages was like swinging over the heather arm in arm with Christopher himself.
He picked up a paper-cutter and, feeling the edge of it softly with his fingers, he added slowly, as if to himself: "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch To win...or lose it all." Thea's lips parted; she looked at him from under a frown, searching his face. "Do you mean to break loose, too, and do something?" she asked in a low voice.
If she did not draw hers away he would lay his own upon it. If she did, he would take up the paper-cutter. As it turned out, he had to content himself with the latter. She did not draw her hand away as though she understood what he was going to do, but quietly raised it and turned the shade of the lamp a few inches. "I would rather not be responsible for your choice," she said quietly.
A sense of at-homeness stole over me, I was more at home here in this room with Nancy, than in any other place in the world; here, where everything was at once soothing yet stimulating, expressive of her, even the smaller objects that caught my eye, the crystal inkstand tipped with gold, the racks for the table books, her paper-cutter. Nancy's was a discriminating luxury. And her talk!
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