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Dalton paying such attentions to a young lady while I was there as would convince anyone of the truth of the rumours that are afloat about him, she simpered out, half-defiantly. "'His sister, perhaps' your mother muttered, knocking her ivory pen-handle nervously against her white teeth. "'No, indeed nor his cousin neither, Miss Hartney retorted, with a covert little sneer.
I had got no further than 'My dearest husband, and my pen-handle was a fringe. 'Another fine day, I said, as if the old, old Indian joke could give him ease, poor man! 'Yes, said he, 'we are having lovely weather. He had forgotten that it was a joke. Then he lapsed into silence while I renewed my attentions to my pen.
When the magazine-boy chucked "Ballou's Dollar Monthly" into her lap, she jumped, and said, "Oh, thank you!" and she was quite overcome by the successive gifts, as she supposed, of a paper of pop-corn, a paper of lozenges, and a "prize package," containing six envelopes, six sheets of note-paper, six pens, a wooden pen-handle and a "piece of jewelry," all for twenty-five cents!
Barbara would have given her pearl necklace to know what the letter contained; but she could not open and read it by the aid of steam, or a pen-handle, or a hair-pin, or any of the generally approved methods, because her position in society forbade such an act.
A good expedient, where leaf or scroll forms are to be carved, and when very truthful drawing is necessary to explain their convolutions, is that adopted by Professor Lethaby at the Royal College of Art. It consists in cutting the leaf out of a piece of stiffish paper, and with a knife or pen-handle curling it into the required form.
Darrow called for writing materials and room was made at her elbow for the parched ink-bottle and saturated blotter of the Parisian restaurant; but the mere sight of these jaded implements seemed to paralyze Miss Viner's faculties. She hung over the telegraph-form with anxiously-drawn brow, the tip of the pen-handle pressed against her lip; and at length she raised her troubled eyes to Darrow's.
The paper-knife upon His Majesty's writing-table is carved into the same likeness, and swans adorn the top of the pen-handle and preside over the ink and sand bottles.
And so I'd try to think of things that I could write big things big things that would interest big men: about the President, and our-country-'tis-of-thee, and the state of the weather and the crops. And so I'd begin: "Dear Father: I take my pen in hand to inform you that " Then I'd stop and think and think, and chew my pen-handle. Then I'd put down something.
Then to Johnson biting his pen-handle in Bobby's study and wondering where his principal and Applerod could be at this hour he telephoned to deliver a check in the amount of twenty-seven thousand six hundred dollars to Mr. Chalmers.
Being now in possession of seven dollars and a quarter, Katy could afford to be gorgeously generous. She gave Aunt Izzie an exact description of the desk she wanted. "It's no matter about its being very big," said Katy, "but it must have a blue velvet lining, and an inkstand, with a silver top. And please buy some little sheets of paper and envelopes, and a pen-handle; the prettiest you can find.
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