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Updated: May 13, 2025
For a long time he sat motionless in his place, his elbows on his knees, his chin propped in his hands. The minutes passed then the hours. The moon climbed steadily higher among the stars. Vanamee rolled and smoked cigarette after cigarette, the blue haze of smoke hanging motionless above his head, or drifting in slowly weaving filaments across the open spaces of the garden.
Grundy's narrow-minded prattle!" Charteris swept aside the dogmas of the world with an indignant gesture of somewhat conscious nobility; and he turned to his companion in an attitude of defiance. Musgrave was smiling. He smoked and seemed to enjoy his cigarette. The day was approaching sunset.
Stooping beside him, he took out a very small bottle and carefully let a few drops fall into a spoon. With some trouble, he got the sick man to swallow them; and then he sat down and turned to Harding. "I can't predict the result. We must wait an hour; then I may be able to form some opinion." Harding lighted his pipe, and, though he found it strangely hard to sit still, he smoked steadily.
Palford left by an extremely early train, and after he was gone, Tembarom sat over his breakfast as long as possible, and then, going to the library, smoked long.
Mr Darvell smoked on in silence, and his wife busied herself in preparing supper, consisting of cold bacon, bread, and tea without milk; it was not until they had both been seated at the meal for a little while that she set down her cup suddenly and exclaimed: "Why, whatever's got our Frank? Isn't he home yet?"
They both smoked like dragoons; and the Swiss was continually saying, in bad French, 'I ask your pardon, sir, for my great freedom, at the same time blowing such whiffs of tobacco in my face as almost suffocated me. Mr.
And you were too small to dispute anything except matters with your tutor. Don't look them over now, dearest, they may worry you!" Frank took the envelope with an inexplicable feeling of hope. That his mother had forgotten important papers did not surprise him in the least. She had once taken a mortgage held by his father and pasted it over a place in a chimney where it smoked.
He lay still, with a sense of extraordinary content and comfort, and heard Gertie presently lie down again. The Major smoked steadily. Then the singing began. It was a perfectly still night, frost-bound and motionless. Now, however, everything was dead silent.
Over my frugal supper I found myself taking up anew the thread of my meditations, and afterwards, as I smoked my last pipe by the expiring surgery fire, the strange and sinister features of the case continued to obtrude themselves on my notice.
James Leland winked once more at his reflection in the mirror, and was discovered in the act by Barndale, who became signally disconcerted in manner. Miss Leland relieved his embarrassment by taking away her brother for a conference respecting the package of certain treasures purchased a day or two before in Venice. The lone one smoked, and lounged, and waited. He tried to read, and gave it up.
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