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Updated: May 19, 2025
It was fresh ivory then; the robbery must have taken place not long after the burial. See, this magnifying-glass shows it. Is that all?" Smith handed him the surviving half of the marvellous necklace that had been torn in two. "I have re-threaded it," he muttered, "but every bead is in its place." "Oh, heavens! How lovely! We have nothing like it in the Museum." So it went on.
For an hour, during which she skilfully finished the little roses, the silence had not been broken even by a single word. But her thread broke again, and she re-threaded her needle by feeling carefully under the frame, as only an adroit person can do. Then, as she raised her head, she again inhaled with satisfaction the pure, fresh air that came in from the garden.
"Very well; but we are getting so much interested in this bird-talk that we are making rather slow progress with our work. Suppose we all see how much we can accomplish in the next ten minutes." Upon this Mollie caught up the block lying in her lap, Florence re-threaded her needle, Nellie Dimock hunted up her thimble, which had rolled under the table, and industry was the order of the day.
But they parted good friends, and the car re-threaded its way through the crowded streets out into a meaner, more deserted neighbourhood, till at length they emerged on a long empty straight road with small yellow brick houses on either side, as yet uninhabited. "What's the engaging young grocer's name?" asked Masters abruptly. "Sartin Sam Sartin." "Known him long?" "We were children together."
And she thought, "And here am I...!" Her bliss was tragic. "I think I ought to be going," she said softly. They re-threaded the corridors, and in each lower room, as they passed, Edwin Clayhanger extinguished the gas which he had lit there on the way up, and Hilda waited for him. And then they were back in the crude glare of the shop. The fat, untidy old man was not visible.
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