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Updated: May 4, 2025
Ulv took off the length of cloth he had wrapped around his body against the chill, and refolded it as a kilt, strapping it on under his belt artifacts. He grunted something unintelligible and when a muttered answer came, Brion for the first time became aware of the woman and the child. The two sat against the far wall, squatting on either side of a heap of fibrous plants.
The second scrap, folded and refolded into a compass so tiny that the writing had been partly obliterated, was part of a letter the lower half of a sheet, not typed, but written in a cramped hand. " by altering the plans for rooms, may be possible. The best way, in my opinion, would be to the plan for in one of the rooms chimney." That was all. "Well?" I said, looking up.
All being thus done decently and in order, my property was returned to its place, my clothes were carefully refolded. Of what nature were the conclusions deduced from this scrutiny? Were they favourable or otherwise? Vain question.
She stopped the reader and refolded the letter, her mischievous eyes dancing. "Well, what d'ye think of that?" she demanded. Barry's bewildered, "Well, I will be darned!" set loose a babel of tongues. Mrs. Apostleman had not counted in vain upon a sensation; everyone talked at once. Mrs. White's high, merry laugh dominated all the other voices.
At length, muttering a comment upon the epistle's efflorescent style, he refolded the document, and committed it to his dispatch-box in company with a play-bill and an invitation to a wedding the latter of which had for the last seven years reposed in the self-same receptacle and in the self-same position.
"Your affectionate brother-in-law-to-be, I read the letter through again; then refolded it and put it in a drawer. The letter, I saw by the postmark, had arrived by the last post. What could the boy want to see me about? What could he have to say to me that he wished to keep secret from his family? I could not imagine. Anyway, I would, I decided, gratify him I was very fond of Dick.
It was an odd sort of thing for a man to be travelling with. "It was lying in the roadway just outside the station," he explained; "I picked it up for luck." He refolded his handkerchief so as to bring a cooler surface in contact with the swelling, while I murmured something genial about the inscrutability of Providence.
The priest, after closing the door, went to the pine table and opening a drawer took out a letter. It bore a recent date. It was from the chaplain of the prison and informed him there was a strong prospect of release for Champney Googe at least three months before the end of his term. Father Honoré smiled to himself. He refolded it and laid it in the drawer.
No doubt a prudent, judicious person, all self-control and guiding maxims, would have refolded and replaced that document, locked the drawer, hidden the key, and met the cunning expectancy of the evil face that awaited her with: "You are entirely mistaken, and I was absolutely right." But M'riar was another sort.
Billy Barry and his kind are pachyderms." He settled back comfortably in his chair and smiled benevolently at Dick's white face. "Well?" Dick asked at last hoarsely. Mr. Early carefully refolded the slip of paper, and tucked it away in his vest pocket, but he spoke with engaging openness. "It's yours, my dear boy, the day after the lighting franchise passes over the mayor's veto.
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