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But for this, there was nothing save his very fine physique and stature to distinguish him from an inhabitant of Southern Europe. Producing a red-covered official work on Mounted Infantry Training, he settled down to read. Horace regretted that India provided not his favourite Comic Cuts and Photo Bits.
They eyed the people who came in with a quick look of assurance, offering a pamphlet, which nearly every one bought. Through this anteroom was the hall, large enough to hold a thousand people comfortably. Several tables for beer stood between red-covered pillars which supported the ceiling, and on the right was a platform for the speakers.
Further on, at a red-covered table furnished with leather-bound blotters and round, glass inkstands in which the ink danced with a purple reflection, people were writing, seated on chairs covered in worn, garnet-colored velvet, with mahogany frames. This gloomy apartment was brightened by broad-leaved green plants, and was lighted from the roof by means of a flat skylight.
With this the genial spirit produced from an invisible pocket a red-covered book bearing the delicious title of "Baedeker's Hades: A Hand-book for Travellers," which has entirely superseded, according to the advertisement on the fly-leaves, such books as Virgil and Dante's Inferno as the best guide to the lower regions, as well it might, for it appeared on perusal to have been prepared with as much care as one of the more material guide-books of the same publisher, which so greatly assist travellers on this side of the Stygian River.
In front of this screen there is always a red-covered joss table, where red lights burn, and incense-sticks smoulder, all of which, as shall be explained later, are precautions to thwart the machinations of the peculiarly malevolent local devils.
"Father!" said Bill, again. "Yes, my boy, yes? What is it?" "Father!" Archie picked up the red-covered volume that lay on the table. "Half a mo', old son. Sorry to stop you, but I knew there was something. I've just remembered. Your walk. All wrong!" "All wrong?" "All wrong! Where's the chapter on the Art. of Walking? Here we are. Listen, dear old soul. Drink this in.
It's just like lookin' behind the scenes in a theayter." He left her and returned a few moments later with a flat, red-covered portfolio. They sought out an unmolested spot and snuggled in a corner of a plush divan in one of the deserted parlors. He drew back the cover and their heads bent low. At each turn of the pages she breathed her ecstasy and gave out shrills and calls of admiration.
"General Heatherstone is a very distinguished soldier," remarked my father. "Why, papa, however came you to know anything about him?" "Ah, my dears," said my father, smiling at us over his coffee-cup, "you were laughing at my library just now, but you see it may be very useful at times." As he spoke he took a red-covered volume from a shelf and turned over the pages.
Constance sat down and drew the red-covered book from her pocket, and placed the seven sharply-pointed pencils, side by side and near at hand. A sound startled the girl. Her brow puckered. Even in the deep woods inspiration was not safe from intrusion.
If you can't entangle the Government that fed you so long in some trouble, you won't play." "You've been reading some of the red-covered detective stories, and think you're a sleuth!" snarled the Captain. "You may as well tell me all about it," Ned urged. "I have told you all I know about the condition of the wreck." "And the packet?"
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