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Updated: June 18, 2025
But on a second and more careful glance, we saw seated behind a very large desk with pigeonholes and drawers of bewildering multiplicity, a small man with a black waxed moustache, and the air of a very average clerk, writing hard. He looked up as we came to a standstill. "Did you knock?" he asked pleasantly. "I am sorry if I did not hear. What can I do for you?"
But I must get the story from Hathaway's own lips, and then compare his statement with that in the letter. If they agree, we won't prosecute the man at all, and the famous case that has caused us so much trouble for years will be filed in the office pigeonholes and pass into ancient history." Josie O'Gorman sat silent for a long time. Then she asked: "Do you think Mr.
Searching the pigeonholes and drawers, moving everything that lay about, he twitched the bust and the letter lay disclosed. He took it up with a sigh of relief: "DEAR BRYAN, "But I say you ARE wasting yourself. Why, my dear, of course! 'Il faut se faire valoir! You have only one foot to put forward; the other is planted in I don't know what mysterious hole. One foot in the grave at thirty!
You telephone me six hundred words on this thing inside of an hour. No frills you understand. Just give me the straight facts. We'll fix the yarn up here." "For mercy's sakes, here comes Shandon Waters!" said Jane Dinwoodie, of the post-office, leaving her pigeonholes to peer through the one small window of that unpretentious building.
And the inside parts of the Desk were running over with delightful things, note-paper and envelopes, and pads and pencils, and new white blotting-paper and true as true, dull black, with the cutest little silver belt a beautiful Founting Pen. Inside also were pigeonholes of the best quality, like in the Netiquette.
Grimm gazed at it thoughtfully, after which he did it all over again, placidly and without haste. "Now, we'll look inside, please," he requested, rising. Señor Rodriguez unlocked the safe the while Mr. Grimm respectfully turned his eyes away, then pulled the door wide open. The books had been piled one on top of another and thrust into various pigeonholes at the top. Mr.
That is to say, he knew no more than the barbarians who preceded him. He attempted to grasp ideas which Herbert Spencer pigeonholes forever as the Unknowable; and in some of his endeavors to make plain the unknowable, Aristotle strains language to the breaking-point the net bursts and all of his fish go free.
Then I read the greasy names on the private bayrum bottles; read the names and noted the numbers on the private shaving-cups in the pigeonholes; studied the stained and damaged cheap prints on the walls, of battles, early Presidents, and voluptuous recumbent sultanas, and the tiresome and everlasting young girl putting her grandfather's spectacles on; execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and the distracting parrot that few barbers' shops are without.
She went over to the big combination desk and bureau, where her father always kept his writing materials, and drew down the lid. She could not at first find the ink, so looked for it in drawers and pigeonholes. While searching, she came upon a small casket which she remembered well. It was her mother's she had received it from her husband as a wedding present.
After all, the critical pigeonholes are made for the things, not the things for the pigeonholes. The work is there, and if it does not fit your preconceived definition the fault is as likely to be in the definition as in the work itself.
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