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Dramatis personae: A guide; two drab-colored and tired men; a group of women, of various ages, equipped with red-covered little volumes, and severally expressive of great earnestness, wide-eyed rapture, and giggles. The guide, in strident, accentless tones: Last work of Titian. Ninety-nine years old. He died of smallpox. A woman: Is that it?
He was last employed at your testing-works on Staten Island. Discharged by your Mr. Herzog, about two weeks ago for having, I understand, been in possession of a certain red-covered note-book, which Mr. Herzog found in his pocket. This book is the same which you commissioned me to find, but which Mr. Herzog returned to you before I undertook the search for it.
It was, perhaps, two hours afterward when he had finished. The room was dark and very still. "So she knew," he said, slowly. "After all, she knew. And I never guessed." His head sank down on his arms. It was a curious inconsistency in the mind of Ida Locke which had prompted her to write in that red-covered note-book just what she had written.
Possibly night had brought counsel to Jerry Cowan; or perhaps his mother had put him up to it. At all events, he announced to us that he couldn't bring the red-covered history to school, but if we wanted to buy the picture outright he would tear it out of the book and sell it to us for fifty cents. We talked the matter over in serious conclave in the orchard that evening.
Another has not seen Westminster Abbey for fifteen years, because he attends church at St. Dunstan's-in-the-East. Another says that he should like to have us 'read up' London in the red-covered Baedeker, and then show it to him, properly and systematically.
Other elementary safeguards are also adopted; a red-covered altar invariably stands in front of the screen, adorned with candles and artificial flowers, and incense-sticks are perpetually burning on it. What with the incense-sticks and abundant red silk streamers, an atmosphere is created which must be thoroughly uncongenial, even to the most irreclaimable devil.
He reasoned that what he could not comprehend in the one language he might in the other, and his progress in the undertaking was so rapid that it was marvelous. When he learned that the Bible was in two parts a New and an Old Testament and that his little red-covered book was only the New, he longed for the complete volume and was soon in possession of one.
Emma smiled, as she replied, "What difficulty we find in pronouncing that word! One would think that there was a sting in the very name of death: and so there is, Miss Sliver, until God gives us the victory, through Jesus Christ." "Jesus was a beautiful character," said Susan, taking up Emma's Bible, beside which the red-covered novel lay blushing as if in an agony of shame.
On a little red-covered table by the side of a little tacked label which says, "Cold Steel: May 9," there is a twisted French bayonet a bayonet, the flesh weapon, which has been twisted! "Oh, it's fine!" says a young girl from the castle. "It isn't Fritz and Jerry, old chap, that bends bayonets!" "No doubt about it, we're the first soldiers in the world," says Rampaille.
Then, when communion had been taken by the King and his four young sons the altar was cleared away, and a great red-covered table placed lengthwise down the tent, round which John might assemble his council and determine how best he should proceed. With the silken roof, rich tapestries of Arras round the walls and Eastern rugs beneath the feet, his palace could furnish no fairer chamber.
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