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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."
Then came Lady Myrtle's reply, short, cold, and decisive. 'I deny it, she said. Colonel Mildmay did not speak. The old lady glanced at him. His eyes were fixed on the table beside which he was seated; he tapped it lightly with a paper-cutter which he held in his hand. And after a moment's waiting she spoke again. 'I know what you refer to, she said. 'It would be nonsense to pretend I do not.
A miracle of exquisite neatness the room was rather effeminate, perhaps, in its attributes; but that was no sign of the Colonel's tastes, but of his popularity with the ladies. All those pretty things were their gifts. The tapestry on the chairs their work the Sevres on the consoles the clock on the mantel-shelf the inkstand, paper-cutter, taper-stand on the writing-table their birthday presents.
It looks like a man's handwriting." Juanita Sterling looked doubtfully at the address on her own envelope, then she ran a paper-cutter under the flap. "An invitation from Mrs. Dick for us all to spend to-day with her!" she announced disinterestedly. "Oh, let's go!" cried Polly. "Shall we walk or fly?" The tone was not encouraging. "Ride," answered Polly promptly. "Perhaps you can't get the cars."
"Silence, both of you!" cried the judge, with impartial justice, rapping his desk sharply with a brass paper-cutter. "Now, Mr. Barrister, state the case." Then, in an aside, "Wasn't that well said?" "The prisoner has stolen a pig, your 'ludship," said the counsel. "He admits it, but as the animal has been eaten " "And the prisoner has been beaten," put in the incorrigible Selwyn.
The door had scarcely closed ere the paper-cutter in Maud's fingers broke short off at the handle. Her grasp tightened on it insensibly, while she ground and gnashed her small white teeth, to think that she, with her proud nature, in her high position, should not be free to admit or deny what visitors she pleased.
Then immediately he recollected that he had seen them in Bennington's hands, but he was positive that the gloves meant nothing to Bennington. He had picked them up just as he would have picked up a paper-cutter, a pencil, a match-box, if any of these had been within reach of his nervous fingers. Most men who are at times mentally embarrassed find relief in touching small inanimate objects.
The King lost his head, so he did, all along o' one of those cunning rope-bridges. Kindly let me have the paper-cutter, Sir. It tilted this way. They marched him a mile across that snow to a rope-bridge over a ravine with a river at the bottom. You may have seen such. They prodded him behind like an ox. 'Damn your eyes! says the King.
He took up a book, and presently a pencil from his pocket, then talked of the book to Cecilia's cousin; and leaving a paper-cutter between the leaves, he looked at Cecilia and laid the book down. She proceeded to conduct Mrs. Grancey Lespel to her room. 'I do admire Captain Beauchamp's cleverness; he is as good as a French romance! Mrs. Grancey exclaimed on the stairs. 'He fibs charmingly.
"I mean to get rich, if you call that doing anything. I've found what I can do without. You make such bargains in your mind, first." Thea sprang up and took the paper-cutter he had put down, twisting it in her hands. "A long while first, sometimes," she said with a short laugh. "But suppose one can never get out what they've got in them? Suppose they make a mess of it in the end; then what?"
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