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There was also a slip of paper in another hand, the contents of which the Countess did not think it necessary to mention, being simply these words: "If you hear not of me soon, and that by the trumpet of Fame, conclude me dead, but not unworthy." A thought, hitherto repelled as wildly incredible, now glanced with double keenness through Isabelle's soul.
It rose like a shield to a central boss, which trembled, as it were, into view and revealed itself a mountain peak, snowcapped and shining, before ever the purple mist began to slip from the slopes below it and disclose their true verdure.
Along the lower edge of each strip was pasted a slip of white paper. Under this row of faint grease prints he would write a record on the strip of white paper thus: JOHN SMITH, right hand and add the day of the month and the year, then take Smith's left hand on another glass strip, and add name and date and the words "left hand."
Stay near your window, so that I can see a handkerchief if you hold it. Then I will throw up a stone with a string tied about, and you can draw up a rope and slip down. If this general is so important we ought to let them know. I will send the word by wireless and then come back." "Good! It is risky for you. They wouldn't spare you if they caught you trying to help me to get away.
The editorial writers those astute counselors of the public who are half-revered and half-despised by their associates on the news side of every American newspaper wrote uneasily under a mysterious, hidden censorship. It was possible that even the young woman who gleaned society news might, by some unfortunate slip, offend the invisible proprietor. But as time passed nothing happened.
To slip with his boat in and out of the canals and the lagoon, to dive from the steps and bridges and chase the other boys through the water, to listen to the music in the Piazza at night, seemed to him the only life worth living. But the stranger was speaking again. "I could have been happy here centuries ago, when the city was in the making," he said.
Murphy went on with his business, and thrived very well, till he happened to make an unfortunate slip, in which he was detected by a brother of the same calling.
The professor wrote the address down on a slip of paper, pinned the slip carefully to the yellow lining of his jacket, and then got up to go. But Malling detained him. "Professor," he said, speaking with an unusual hesitation, "you know why I told you all this." "In the interests of science?" "No, in the interest of that miserable man, Marcus Harding.
He had watched her all the day with a secret joy; he knew the value of moments like these in maturing the resolutions of the converted soul, and, as he had not yet completed his arrangements, he was afraid his penitent might slip from him in the crowd and be exposed to temptations that might discourage her; the cold blast of the world might shake to the ground the fabric he had commenced to build.
Where have these letters been?" "Part of the time in my safe, part of the time this afternoon on my desk by the window." "The office was locked, I suppose?" asked Kennedy. "There was no way to slip this letter in among the others since you obtained them?" "None. The office has been locked, and there is no evidence of any one having entered or disturbed a thing."
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