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"Learning may be ruination," responded the Doge, "though it wouldn't have been in your case. It's the man that counts. See what you have made of yourself!" "Ah, yes, but I feel that I have missed something. When I am settled here I shall be able to make up for lost time, with your help, sir." "Every pigeonhole in my mind will be open at your call!" said the Doge, glowing at the prospect.
We are still reading him still talking about him still trying to clap label upon him still hunting for a pigeonhole in which to place him. If a man were wholly crude, rude, ignorant and coarse, and if he did nothing but shock and irritate us, we would quickly cast him aside.
The woman's eloquent gesture appeared to include the blue-bottle fly buzzing noisily on the window-pane: "Goodness gracious! if these flies ain't enough to drive a body crazy what with the new paint and all...." Lydia laid the picture carefully away in a pigeonhole of her desk.
Step by step, slowly but surely, the memoranda in that matrimonial portfolio were growing into accomplished facts; all events, such as displacements of power, were foreseen; and the Plimptons, like Bismarck, had only to indicate, in case of sudden news, the pigeonhole where the plan of any particular campaign was filed. Mrs.
We met this chap accidentally a little favor of Providence, which had a special pigeonhole for us in those days. Our team had been using the Kiowa football team as a running track on their own field that afternoon, and the score was about 105 to 0 when the timekeeper turned off the massacre. Naturally all Siwash was happy. I will admit we were too happy to be careful.
Keep those four niggers up in the pigeonhole. We will do our own cooking to-day, for we can't afford to run after any more of them. Lucky the fellow who got away can't speak English, for he can't tell anything about us, any more than if he was an ape. So snooze to-day, if you want to. I will give you work to do for to-night."
"I do not I cannot believe that my brother has taken his own life. In fact, I am sure he did not." On hearing these words Inspector Dawfield looked at his visitor again, with something more than surprise in his eyes, then he pulled a document from a pigeonhole and hastily scanned it. "Pengowan's report states quite definitely that it is suicide," he said as he replaced it.
I just had time to get upstairs an' make my plant before you came in. The rest was easy." "But the ashes?" I said. "Flicked out through a pigeonhole. That's what took practice, to make 'em fall just right. Also the cigar." "And the odor of tobacco?" He got a little vial out of his pocket, uncorked it, and again I caught the sweet and heavy odor of Peter Magnus' cigar.
"It may serve as a clue to the detection of the concealed scoundrel. I also beg that you will show me any other anonymous letters of the same character that may reach you." Mr. Minford laughed. "The stove door is the pigeonhole where all such nonsense ought to be filed away. But just as you please. If any more come to hand, you shall see them. They may amuse you, as they do me. Ha! ha!"
J. Augustus Redell put on his hat, took from a pigeonhole in his desk the last trial balance of the West Coast Trading Company's books and departed for a conference with his banker. Half an hour later he returned, and the expectant Luiz promptly noted a cloud on Mr. Redell's sunny countenance. "I can't arrange for a loan," he reported disgustedly.
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