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How do I know that anybody will want it to be opened a second time? How do I know that I shall feel like opening it? It is safest neither to promise to open the New Portfolio once more, nor yet to pledge myself to keep it closed hereafter. There are many papers potentially existent in it, some of which might interest a reader here and there.
He thought her a consummate actress, and revelled in each new phase. The Duchess, half laughing, half crying, began to scold her friend. Delafield bent over Julie Le Breton's chair. "Have you had some tea?" The smile in his eyes provoked a faint answer in hers. While she was declaring that she was in no need whatever of physical sustenance, Meredith advanced with his portfolio.
'Well, said Nat, 'look at this, and see if you can see it any better; and he drew out of his portfolio a sheet with a rough charcoal sketch of six or seven low, gnarled, bare trees, with their boughs inter-locked in such a fantastic manner that the trees seemed absolutely reeling about in a crazy dance. I laughed as soon as I saw it.
"Don't get my check until Monday morning, any time after ten!" he yelled, and flung a portfolio of mottled green into the danger zone of the casts. "Thunder!" said Pennoyer, sinking at once into a profound despair "Monday morning, any time after ten," murmured Wrinkles, in astonishment and sorrow.
I'll tell him at once he will be free in a minute; but you you had better wait in the ante-chamber, hadn't you? Why is he here?" he added, severely, to the man. "I tell you, sir, he wished it himself!" At this moment the study door opened, and a military man, with a portfolio under his arm, came out talking loudly, and after bidding good-bye to someone inside, took his departure.
"So you like Cecropias and bright-green beetles, do you?" he said, and he gallantly unpinned the wide-winged moth from his hat-crown and stuck it on the cover of Miss Minorkey's portfolio, and then added the green beetle. Helen thanked him in her quiet way, but with pleased eyes.
In July, 1915, Dr. Albert, while riding on a New York elevated train, was so careless as to set his portfolio on the seat for a few moments; it was speedily picked up by a fellow passenger who made a hasty exit. Soon afterwards the chief contents of the portfolio were published.
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful. A few months ago some words were said in the Portfolio as to an 'austere regimen in scenery'; and such a discipline was then recommended as 'healthful and strengthening to the taste. That is the text, so to speak, of the present essay.
Knote and Moréna, Feinhals and Bender were singing at the Hof Theatre. Mottl was conducting. Lili Marberg's Salome was something to be seen again and again. You forgot the play itself. And Bardou-Müller's Mrs. Alving! I did not sleep for two nights. "Well, I left the letter on my table, instead of returning it to the portfolio of my trunk, and it exercised a certain insistence.
Oh, the thing wasn't feasible yet he saw himself in khaki, leaning, as all war correspondents lean, upon a heavy stick, portfolio at shoulder trying to look like an Englishman. "I'd like to think it over," he, confessed. "It's certainly very kind of you. I'll think it over and I'll let you know." Thinking it over absorbed him on the journey to New York.
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