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Updated: May 2, 2025
Dawkins received these handsome compliments with much philosophy, and offered to cut any gentleman in company, for the first picture-card, at a shilling at a time.
It was too dark for him to see her eyes. The tears that lay in them could not drop their balm upon his heart. "She's as good as new," said he cheerfully, fingering the inner pocket of his coat. "She writes to me right along. Here's a picture-card that followed me here, mailed from the home that the man who gave his tough old hide to mend her found for her when she was well.
Isolde thought of the unhappy Tancred, hammered out as flat as a picture-card and hopelessly spoilt; of Conrad the Cocoanut head first in the mud, and Sickfried the Susceptible coiled up with agonies of sulphuric acid. Guido thought of the dead Saracens and the slaughtered Turks. And all for nothing! The guerdon of their love had proved vain. Each of them was not what the other had thought.
For this purpose I fixed my eyes on a certain divinity-student, with the intention of exchanging a few phrases, and then forcing my picture-card, namely, The great end of being. I will thank you for the sugar, I said. Man is a dependent creature. It is a small favor to ask, said the divinity-student, and passed the sugar to me. Life is a great bundle of little things, I said.
A little wooden rocker, another small, straight wooden chair, a hanging wall-pocket decorated with purple roses, a hanging bookshelf composed of three thin boards strung together with maroon picture cord, a violently colored picture-card of "Moses in the Bulrushes" framed in straws and red worsted, and bright-blue paper shades at the windows. That was the room!
"Well, I'm glad ye didn't have to do it," Peg remarked positively. "So am I. Jolly good of you to say 'No. All the luck in the world to you. Drop me a line or a picture-card from New York. Look you up on my way to Canada if I ever really go. 'Bye!"
Halliday broke the seal with his thumb-nail, and took out half a sheet of note-paper closely written on one side, wrapped about a small picture-card. "Yes, it's my letter;" and he glanced sheepishly around the room and hung his head, his face scarlet. The Judge leaned back in his chair, raised his hand impressively, and said gravely: "This case is adjourned until ten o'clock tomorrow."
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