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But Rood, you see, always had money, always kept his escapades quiet, and was very liberal to the city. He has given a deal to different public institutions. They can't do otherwise than praise him." He took up his letters and began to open them with a paper-knife. "But," I said, "they say Mr. Montgomery has been engaged to a girl for her money."
How the heck can I toy negligently with a paper-knife when there's no paper-knife for me to toy negligently with?" "The paper-knife is on the desk." "It's not on the desk." "No paper-knife?" "No paper-knife. And it's no good picking on me. I'm the star, not the assistant stage manager. If you're going to pick on anybody, pick on him." The advice appeared to strike Mr. Bunbury as good.
It was Mansus who found the second candle, a stouter affair. It lay underneath the bed. The telephone, which stood on a fairly large-sized table by the side of the bed, was overturned and the receiver was on the floor. By its side were two books, one being the "Balkan Question," by Villari, and the other "Travels and Politics in the Near East," by Miller. With them was a long, ivory paper-knife.
He said the sitting was a noisy one, the Left were threshing out some infernal questions he said, during the height of the uproar, and rapping with his paper-knife on his desk: "But we can not hear!"
"Oh, I haven't been there for twenty years." And he suddenly sat down, dangling a paper-knife between his hands, and staring at the carpet. His jaw dropped a little. A cloud seemed to interpose between him and his companions. Sir Wilfrid, with Lady Henry's story fresh in his memory, was somehow poignantly conscious of the old man.
"Oh, yes, you've something important to tell me. What is it?" said the Duke, with an air of resignation; and he took the photograph from Sonia and put it carefully back in his pocket. "Victoire has telephoned from Paris to say that we've had a paper-knife and a Louis Seize inkstand given us," said Germaine. "Hurrah!" cried the Duke in a sudden shout that made them both jump.
And, making up his mind, he inserted a paper-knife into the envelope and cut it open. A cry escaped him. "Oh, I say, this is a little too much!" "What is it, Monsieur le Préfet?" "Why, look here, a blank ... sheet of paper! That's all the envelope contains!" "Impossible!" "See for yourself a plain sheet folded in four, with not a word on it."
She can't act, and she throws her weight about all the time. The other day there was a fuss about a paper-knife..." "How do you mean, a fuss about a paper-knife?" "One of the props, you know. It got mislaid. I'm certain it wasn't my fault..." "How could it have been your fault?" asked Sally wonderingly. Love seemed to have the worst effects on Fillmore's mentality. "Well er you know how it is.
"I was on the river with him this afternoon, and he he made love to me." The lines of Ian's face suddenly hardened. "Did he?" he returned, significantly, playing with a paper-knife. Then, after a pause: "I'm awfully sorry, Milly. I'd no idea he was such a cad." "He he wanted me to run away with him." Ian's face became of an almost inhuman severity.
"Well, Parker, who won?" asked the junior partner. "Won, sir!" the youth stammered. "Yes, who won?" repeated his employer. "I hardly understand you, sir," the clerk said, growing very red and confused. "Oh yes, you do, Parker," young Girdlestone remarked, tapping his almanac sharply with the paper-knife. "You were playing odd man out with Robson and Perkins when I came in from lunch.
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