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For unless he was very much mistaken and he felt sure that he was not that envelope he had picked up and handed to the President was the identical blue linen envelope that had been stolen with the tan satchel so mysteriously two weeks ago! The size of it, the feel of it, the daubs of gray sealing-wax Oh, there was no mistaking it! How in thunderation had it come into Cranston's hands?
Holding the end of the sealing-wax over the lighted candle until it was soft and dripping, Richard daubed it around the edge of the can lid, as he had seen the man in the express office seal packages. He had always longed to try it himself. There was something peculiarly pleasing in the smell of melted sealing-wax. Georgina found it equally alluring.
Daisy suggested that these pins should have sealing-wax heads of different colours to distinguish the cities, the villages, and the forts from each other. Making these, interrupted doubtless the march of the Conqueror and of history, but in the end much increased Daisy's satisfaction, and if the truth be told, Preston's too.
'It's a silly little thing, just a head on some sort of green stone. But I tried it on sealing-wax, and the impression is not so bad. I shall be very happy if it's of any use, for I'm always puzzling my brain to find something you may like. 'Thanks very much. It's the thought I care for. She laid the seal on the table beside her empty cup.
"While these investigations were proceeding, Doctor Fontaine's senior assistant obtained leave to examine through a microscope the sealing-wax left on the box which had contained the keys.
I spoke to you about this five years ago, but you would not listen you were in a hurry for a coaching trip, I think. The subject has come up again. The property " "Oh, property!" interrupted Blinker. "Dear Mr. Oldport, I think you mentioned to-morrow. Let's have it all at one dose to-morrow signatures and property and snappy rubber bands and that smelly sealing-wax and all. Have luncheon with me?
I observed a man painted red, like a stick of sealing-wax, with large ivory bracelets upon his arms. This fellow was in advance, and he ascended a small ant-hill to obtain a better view. A puff of smoke and the sharp crack of a rifle startled the enemy, as the red sheik rolled over.
In a few minutes he came back again. "I have found them," he whispered to Mrs. Vansittart and Dorothy. "Smelt 'em like sealing-wax. Eleven of them waiting there for Cornish." And he smiled with a sort of boyish glee. "What are you going to do?" whispered Mrs. Vansittart. "Thump them," he answered, and presently went back to his post of observation.
"The loadstone of true beauty draws the heaviest substances not like the fat dowager, who frets herself into warmth to get the notice of a few papier mache fops, as you rub Dutch sealing-wax to draw paper. "If I were inclined to flatter I would say that, as you are unlike other women, you ought not to be won as they are.
The well-known ballads on these two North-country legends were published by M.G. Lewis and Mr. Lambe, of Norham. "Sir Guy," in the Tales of Wonder, and "The Worm," in Ritson's Northumberland Garland. See Child's English and Scottish Ballads, 8 vols. 12mo, Boston, 1857, vol. i. p. 386. Fyn Segellak wel brand en vast houd: old brand used by sealing-wax makers.
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