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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Greatly changed," said the doctor thoughtfully, as he scratched the side of his nose with his penholder, "in personal appearance. Sir James seems very sore still about that little affair. Says I ought to have thrashed Dexter, for he behaved brutally to young Edgar." "And what did you say, papa?" "Well, not exactly all I thought. Dreadful young limb that Edgar.
He waited till the master and mistress and the assistants had gone out to an early church-service, to procure from his employer's cupboard a small phial of ink and a penholder with a rusty nib; then, spreading a crumpled sheet of paper in front of him, he began to write.
If you take, as many do, an interest in the minutiæ of portrait painting, and think the picture more finished for its details, you may notice that he writes on the flat table, not on a desk; that he uses a cork penholder and a fine steel pen, though he is not at all a slave to his tools, and differs from others rather in the absence of the sine quâ non from his conditions.
After giving various items of neighborhood interest, she paused; glancing up, her eye fell on the shop across the way, and immediately a sensation of uneasiness took possession of her. With an elbow on her desk she continued to gaze out of the window, thoughtfully tapping her cheek with her penholder.
They have been land-holders, slave-owners, and planters on a large scale. One of two of the Derwents your mother's family were in the law. Have you decided to accept this appointment, William?" "I am thinking it over," said Billy, slowly, regarding the ash of his cigar. "You have been a good son to me," continued the Governor, stirring his pipe with the handle of a penholder.
How it would be like the sun's setting ... and no more wonder. Only, more darkness." The old exchange of tokens, the old symbolisms a lock of hair, a ring, a picture, a child's penholder are good enough for these lovers, as they had been for others before them.
Take this: 'Regret very much unable to accept your kind invitation' which might mean anything, from a previous engagement to total paralysis." "Ye-e-es," says Ferdie, hangin' his bamboo stick over his left arm and chewin' the penholder thoughtful, "but Marjorie'll be awfully disappointed. I think she really does want to go." "Ah, squiffle!" says I. "She'll get over it. Whose joint is it, anyway?"
Guarantee the Leicestershire fellow a pass if he begins at once. The other, who listened, bit the end of his wooden penholder to splinters. 'All right, he replied. 'But, look here, I want a little money. 'So do I. 'Yes, but you're not like me, without a coin in your pocket. Look here, give me half-a-crown. I have absolute need of it. Why, I can't even get my hair cut.
Returning one evening to our quarters, which were now in the "Yard," I found Tom seated with a blank sheet before him, thrusting his hand through his hair and biting the end of his penholder to a pulp. In his muttering, which was mixed with the curious, stingless profanity of which he was master, I caught the name of Cheyne, and I knew that he was facing the crisis of a fortnightly theme.
Had not the clergyman who was preparing him for confirmation also said: "You are no longer children"? And had he not gone on to say: "You will soon have your share of life's gravity"? Alas, he already had it. Wolfgang sat with knit brows, the chewed end of his penholder between his teeth, disinclined to work. He was brooding.
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