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On his writing table lay one of those Catalan daggers, which he evidently used as a paper-cutter. I snatched it up, and was about to strike, when the recollection of Marie dying of cold and starvation occurred to me. I dashed the knife to the ground, and rushed from the house in a state bordering on insanity. I went into that house an honest man, and left it a degraded scoundrel.
Grant tied a handkerchief round the cut, and screwed it up tight with a silver paper-cutter; and the flow of blood seemed to be checked at once. By this time I had come to my senses or such of them as remained; and I sent off one man for the doctor and another for the police.
It has short legs, web feet, extremely long-pointed wings, and is of about the size of a tern. The beak is flattened laterally, that is, in a plane at right angles to that of a spoonbill or duck. It is as flat and elastic as an ivory paper-cutter, and the lower mandible, differing from every other bird, is an inch and a half longer than the upper.
"Oh, no," said Uncle Steve, shaking his head; "you don't care about post offices and walks in the woods, and drives through the country. You'd rather slide down an old barn roof, and then lie in bed for a week." "Catch me doing it again," said Marjorie, shaking her head decidedly; "and now, Uncle, suppose we open these letters." "Why, that wouldn't be a bad idea. Here's a paper-cutter.
A pile of letters lay upon it that had arrived by the evening post. He began to turn them over, and presently took up a paper-cutter and deftly slit them open one by one. Mordaunt sat and smoked as one lost in thought. Finally, after a long silence, he looked up and spoke. "Why this sudden hurry to dissolve partnership, Bertrand?" he asked, with his kindly smile.
Please give them to me, Uncle, and please give me a paper-cutter." "Midge," said Uncle Steve, "if you think these are letters, you're very much mistaken. They're not." "What are they, then?" asked Marjorie, greatly mystified, for they certainly looked like letters, and were sealed and stamped. "As I've often told you, it's a good plan to open them and see."
'One moment, said Welby; then, turning to Fenwick as the others approached them, he said, 'Might I make two small criticisms? 'Of course. 'The right hand seems to me too large and the chin wants fining. Look! He took a little ivory paper-cutter from his pocket, and pointed to the line of the chin, with a motion of the head towards Madame de Pastourelles. Fenwick looked and said nothing.
"Excuse me, Monsieur, but pray tell me what vessel that is over there." The question was addressed to a small, dark man, who, leaning upon the parapet of the Quai des Tuileries, was rapidly writing in a note-book with a large combination pencil, containing a knife, a pen, spare leads, and a paper-cutter all the paraphernalia of a reporter accustomed to the expeditions of itinerant journalism.
As he advanced and greeted the artist, she heard a quick, snapping sound, and saw the beautiful Bohemian glass paper-cutter her guardian had been using lying shivered to atoms on the rug. The fluted handle was crushed in his fingers, and drops of blood oozed over the left hand. Ere she could allude to it, he thrust his hand into his pocket and desired Russell to be seated.
The silence that followed was broken only by the tap, tap, tap of the Lieutenant-Governor's paper-cutter on the silver-mounted blotter. Presently he looked up and met the Governor's eye. "If you want my opinion, sir," he answered, "it is that Mr. Rathbawne would fight such a point to a standstill. He's sole owner of the mills, and he's a rich man.
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