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Madeleine nodded approval, and drew from the depths of her cupboard a little glass inkstand, a rusty penholder, and a sheet of paper, at the top of which was a dove with a twig in its beak. "My cousin at Romorantin died just before last New Year's Day," she explained; "so I had one sheet more than I needed." I sat down at the kitchen table with Jeanne leaning over me, reading as I wrote.
His face was only grave when he wished to fend off laughter. "Well," persisted Mrs. Agar, "I am sure Jem did not make a will." Mr. Rigg bowed and resumed his seat. He took up a penholder and smiled, presumably at his own sunny thoughts. Mrs. Agar was one of those fatuous ladies who think themselves capable of tricking a professional man out of his fee.
That document had not been in the safe when Lanyard had opened it at midnight. After a moment Mr. Blensop uttered a musical note of vexation. The lead of his pencil had broken. He threw it pettishly aside, came over to the desk, took up a penholder, dipped it in the ink-well, and returned to his task. Colonel Stanistreet put down the last of the papers and slapped his hand upon it resoundingly.
Having written in the large space under the head of "Remarks" "Heat very oppressive," he stuck the end of the penholder in his teeth, pipe fashion, and mopped his face carefully. "Ship rolling heavily in a high cross swell," he began again, and commented to himself, "Heavily is no word for it." Then he wrote: "Sunset threatening, with a low bank of clouds to N. and E. Sky clear overhead."
He nibbled the leisure end of his penholder too much, and allowed the business extremity thereof to dry in inky conglomeration. The result was a distinct sense of labour in the style of the work. After having called in vain, perhaps for assistance, the scribe returned to the contemplation of his latest effort.
If necessary, soak in alum water a piece of absorbent cotton, which has been wound around the pointed end of a pencil or penholder; plug the nostril by pushing it up with a twisting motion until firmly lodged. Burns or Scalds. Burns or scalds are dangerous in proportion to their extent and depth.
Then he motioned Tyrrel into a chair with an imperious wave of his ivory penholder. After that, he went on writing for some moments in solemn silence. Only the sound of his steel nib, traveling fast as it could go over the foolscap sheet, broke for several seconds the embarrassing stillness.
Do you understand?" he snarled, thrusting his nose into her face, as she bent over him to hold the blotting-pad. "That's all you'll get out of me." He filled in the figure two below, and straggling noughts for the cents. Then, he paused and addressed her again, emphasizing his remarks with the end of the penholder. "I'll have you understand that this is the last of your borrowing and begging.
Falconer walked past him into the smoking-room. Mr. Griffenberg was alone there, seated in a big arm-chair with a cigar as black as a hat and as long as a penholder. Falconer wheeled a chair up to him, and, in his blunt fashion, said: "You are in this railway scheme of Orme's, Griffenberg?" Mr. Griffenberg nodded. "And you?" "Yes," said Falconer, succinctly. "I am joining.
"I have felt deep regret, sir, for that accident the other day I set down the penholder clumsily, in equilibrium unstable equilibrium besides, I had no notion there was a reader behind the desk. Of course, if I had been aware, I should I should have acted differently." M. Charnot allowed me to flounder on with the contemplative satisfaction of an angler who has got a fish at the end of his line.
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