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Updated: June 28, 2025
I take as a typical statement of fact that I sit here at my desk writing with a fountain pen on a pad of ruled scribbling paper, that the sunlight falls upon me and throws the shadow of my window mullion across the page, that Peter, my cat, sleeps on the window-seat close at hand and that this agate paper-weight with the silver top that once was Henley's holds my loose memoranda together.
Dashed weird his behaviour has been the last few days." "Such as?" murmured Mr. van Tuyl. "Well, the other morning I happened to be in his suite incidentally he wouldn't go above ten dollars, and I wanted twenty-five-and he suddenly picked up a whacking big paper-weight and bunged it for all he was worth." "At you?" "Not at me. That was the rummy part of it. At a mosquito on the wall, he said.
Then, after seeing the cloud of the burst you hear the hiss of the shell's approach, and finally you are hit by the sound of the explosion. This is the climax and end of the life history of any shell that is not a dud shell. Afterwards the battered fuse may serve as some journalist's paper-weight. The rest is scrap iron. Such is, so to speak, the primary process of modern warfare.
"It's his body," Quest replied. "He's been murdered here, he and the Salvation Army girl who was to come this morning for her cheque." Laura turned away, half dazed. "I'd have trusted Ross with my life," Quest continued, "but he must have been alone in the house when the girl came. Do you suppose it was the usual sort of trouble?" Inspector French stooped down and picked up the paper-weight.
The Governor had been warming his hands over the brazier, but ceased when Lermontoff was brought up standing before him. He lifted the paper-weight, took from under it the two letters which Lermontoff had given to the steward on the steamer, and handed them to the prisoner, who thus received them back for the second time.
One could use an elephant as a paper-weight, and a crocodile as a pair of scissors!" "And would you have races of different sizes communicate with one another?" I enquired. "Would they make war on one another, for instance, or enter into treaties?" "War we must exclude, I think. When you could crush a whole nation with one blow of your fist, you couldn't conduct war on equal terms.
As he uttered these emphatic words he slammed a paper-weight down upon a pile of reports which the adjutant had just brought in, and, settling back in his chair, looked sharply at the officer who stood in front of the table. The red sash the latter wore around his waist proclaimed him to be the officer of the day.
The Cold Chills went down his Spine when he caught a Flash of the Half-Morocco Prospectus. If it had been a Man Agent he would have shouted "Sick 'em" and reached for a Paper-Weight. He has about One Chance in a Million. She said she was the only Support of her Little Boy, who was attending a Military School at Syracuse, N.Y. She turned the Liquid Orbs on him and had him to the Bad.
At last, however, Arthur waved the leg of his second pigeon toward his desk. "Look what we've got here!" he said. Estelle nodded. The stunned pigeon Arthur had first picked up was tied by one foot to a paper-weight. "I thought we might keep him for a souvenir," she suggested. "You seem pretty confident we'll get back, all right," Arthur observed.
Packard whose own lips seemed suddenly to become dry, for I saw her try to moisten them as her right hand groped about for something on the tabletop and finally settled on a small paper-weight which she set down amongst her matches. Was it then or afterward that I began to have my first real doubt whether some shadow had not fallen across her apparently unsullied life?
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