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Updated: April 30, 2025
He stormed about the room, kicking over chairs, and hurling rulers and paper-weights at the birds, apparently with the most deadly intentions, but with shockingly bad aim shouting, shaking his fist at his wife, and even threatening to commit her for contempt of court when she laughed.
The colonel feigned elaborately not to hear. "And finally a deaf one! Take off those ear-tabs! Go and bring the mayor here!" Mac Tavish dropped from his stool, armed himself with two paper-weights, and took up a strategic position near the door which led into the passage to the mill. "Roderick Dhu at bay!
If you linger longer, I'll start throwing paper-weights." And as if to emphasize his remark, the Judge's hand closed over one of the articles in question. The Colonel withdrew with what dignity he could muster. Upon his return from the office that night, Bryce Cardigan found his father had left his bed and was seated before the library fire.
The office-boy scratched his cheek dourly with a ruler. No one would have guessed, so austere was his aspect, that a moment before her entrance he had been trying to balance it on his chin, juggling the while with a pair of paper-weights. For, impervious as he seemed to human weaknesses, it was this lad's ambition one day to go into vaudeville. "What name?" he said, coldly.
Colonel Shaw was carrying his shoulders well back and seemed to be taller than usual, his new air of pomposity making him a head thrust above the horde. Colonel Shaw offensively banged the door behind himself. Mac Tavish removed a package of time-sheets that covered a pile of paper-weights.
In other rooms artisans are at work upon various tasks of marqueterie, table-tops, album-covers, paper-weights, brooches, pins and the like, and in others they are sawing the smalts and glass into strips, and grinding the edges.
There were pictures, too, on Tavia's side of the room, but how they got there one could never guess from a birds-eye view for the hanging indicated a sudden storm on "art day," without paper-weights. This same blow included the mottoes, and wise sayings; trophies of certain victories in the way of narrow escapes from dismissals, or such mementos as suspicious games outside the school grounds.
The end nearest her was littered with sheaves of manuscript, newspaper-cuttings, photographs and sepia sketches obviously for purposes of illustration: gum-bottle, stylographs and the rest, with, also, several note-books held open by bananas, recently plucked from the ripening bunch, to serve as paper-weights. She had meant to be very busy that morning.
Then the old man drove in again to his shrimping, and our party stopped to examine the jelly-fish, like glass paper-weights, which were left upon the sand, while Mr Inglis pointed out two or three which had been left by the morning tide, and were now dried up to a thin, filmy skin. There was plenty to see.
Gyp turned the bust a little, to catch the light on its far cheek; a letter was disclosed between it and the oak. She drew it out thinking: 'Bless him! He uses everything for paper-weights'; and, in the strange light, its first words caught her eyes: "DEAR BRYAN, "But I say you ARE wasting yourself " She laid it down, methodically pushing it back under the bust.
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