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Updated: June 3, 2025
Claire was sitting opposite her aunt, nervously fingering a paper-cutter. Mrs. Ffinch-Brown eyed her niece sharply, and with an obvious determination to drive her thrusts home before her victim recovered from the first vicious stabs she continued: "It seems they haven't a great deal of room out there, but she thinks she could arrange things.
"Is that your dagger?" snapped Carroll at the jewelry worker. "It isn't a dagger it's a paper-cutter a magazine knife." "Well, whatever it is, who owns it?" The words were as crisp as the steel of the stained blade. Darcy stared at the keen knife, and then at the dead woman. "Who owns it?" and the question snapped like a whip. "I don't! It was left here by "
The judge sat quiet, but the sergeant who dared not peer too closely, noticed a sudden constriction in the fingers of the hand with which his host fingered a paper-cutter lying on the table between them. "The one where " "I respect your hesitation, judge. Yes, the one run by the man you sentenced " A gesture had stopped him. He waited respectfully for the judge's next words.
Miller," said Herbert, not quite knowing what he had to fear, and turning hot and cold alternately under his visitor's scrutinizing gaze. "Well, then, let me tell you fairly that I came to seek you to-day with the friendliest motives." "I am sure you did, and you are most kind to me, sir," murmured Herbert, playing nervously with an ivory paper-cutter that lay on the table. Mr.
Maurice gave a china cup to Mrs. Coronet, and Lady Augusta a paper-cutter to Miss. The family was secured. All discipline was immediately set at defiance, and the young Duke passed the greater part of the half-year with his affectionate relations.
Could Lashmar have compared her appearance to-day with that she had presented on her first arrival at Rivenoak, he would have marvelled at the change wrought by luxurious circumstance. No eye-glasses now; no little paper-cutter hanging at her girdle. Called upon to resume the Northampton garb, May would have been horrified.
"Rosalie Dysart's," he said, gazing absently at the lilac-bush in flower as the wind-blown curtain revealed it for a moment. She lifted her dark eyes curiously. He began to stir the ice in his glass with a silver paper-cutter. "She is wonderfully beautiful, isn't she?" said the girl. "Overwhelmingly." Geraldine shrugged and gazed into space.
"It is very kind of you to have come so soon," she said, as she took her old accustomed place by the table. Nothing was changed, excepting that the two or three new books at her elbow were not the same ones which had been there two months earlier. In one of them was thrust the silver paper-cutter with the jewelled handle, which Orsino had never missed.
I suppose that he intended to wait about and go for him hot and heavy when he came out. I suppose also that, while dressing, he changed his mind. And, by the way, isn't there such a writ as a mandamus, or a duces tecum? I would like my paper-cutter returned." "Confound your paper-cutter!
Mite, dear, no! when his fat little hands had grasped an ivory paper-cutter, and its blade was on the way to the button mouth. 'No! as he paused and looked at her. 'Here's Mite's ball! poor little dear, do let him have it' and Mite, reading sympathy in his aunt's face, laughed in a fascinating triumphant manner, and took a bite with his small teeth.
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