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He turned away and began ordering the color-tubes and pencils on a table against the wall, putting them close together in very neat, straight rows. Presently he said: "Perhaps Miss Vervain also advised you to go to America?" "Yes," answered the priest reverently. "She had thought of everything.
Travel often excites the spirit to the point of expression. Good travelers carry pads and pencils. Byron reached England with fragments of marbles, skulls, pictures, shells, spears, guns, curios beyond count, and many manuscripts in process. Upon arriving on the English coast the first news that reached him was that his mother had just died.
And all the rest is as easy as wandering among woodlands on a bright morning in the spring. Then sit you down if you would join us, taking paper, pens, and ink; and mark this, your pen is a matter of vital moment. For every pen writes its own sort of essay, and pencils also after their kind. The ink perhaps may have its influence too, and the paper; but paramount is the pen.
And now, with pencils swiftly plying, several young civilians were edging to the door. James Farnham was called, and a sturdy young man, with keen, weather-beaten face, stepped into the little open space before the table. Three fingers were gone from the hand he instinctively held up, as though expecting to be sworn. His testimony was decidedly a disappointment.
That was what drew me to you in the beginning. Well, kill me. Either we go forth together, or they shall bury me." "Beast!" For a little while they manoeuvred around the table. Suddenly the Wastrel took hold of the edge and flung the table aside. Even in this dread moment Ruth was conscious of a pathetic interest in the scattering pencils. He reached for her, and she struck savagely.
"'To Lacaussade's, in the Rue Cassinelli, to order some pencils, "She looked me full in the face. She was not flushed now, but rather pale, on the contrary. Her clear, limpid eyes ah! those women's eyes! appeared to be full of truth, but I felt vaguely and painfuly that they were full of lies.
This would surely come to pass, if God did not sent the angel Ya'asriel, who has charge of the seventy pencils, to engrave anew the Ineffable Name on the shard. God said then to Israel, "If you accept My Torah and observe My laws, I will give you for all eternity a thing most precious that I have in My possession."
Usually the Loyalty Islanders would take notes of the sermon while it went on, but now and then it was simply impossible, for although his knowledge of Nengonese at that time, as compared with what it was afterwards, was very limited, and his vocabulary a small one from which to choose his expressions, he would sometimes speak with such intense earnestness and show himself so thoroughly en rapport with the most intelligent of his hearers, that they were compelled to drop their papers and pencils, and simply to to listen.
In front of the Medium, as he sat at the table with his back to the wall, were the usual writing materials, lead pencils and mucilage bottle, and beyond them, on the edge of the table farthest from the Medium, and between him and the rest of the room, was a row of books, octavos, etc., extending the whole length of the table and terminating in a tin box, like a deed box, with pamphlets on it.
The flare of the gas-jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eye-lids, wigs, scissors, looking-glasses, drapery in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.
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