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The error was slight, but it brought her a sharp reprimand from Mr. Troy. It was the second time, he reminded her, that she had made that blunder. At the reproof the girl's face flushed painfully, and then paled. "If my work is not satisfactory, you had better find some one who can do it better," she said. Whirling round in his swivel-chair, Mr. Troy looked at her.
"If they give me instructions to stand back of you, I'll arrange a new bond as soon as possible." "Will it take long? I can't afford to be tied up behind the bars right now." "Not if I can get it accepted. I'll let you know at once." Kirby rose. He had finished his business. "Just a moment, Mr. Lane." Foster leaned back in his swivel-chair and looked out of the window.
He was merely sitting there staring vacantly out of the window at the paling light. His elbows were on the arms of his Bank of England swivel-chair for which I'd made the green baize seat-pad, and as I stared in at him, half in shadow, I had an odd impression of history repeating itself.
Judith sat beside her sister, not pretending to look at the book, although the rigidity of her face insensibly softened somewhat in the contagious quiet of the room. When they had turned over the last page and shut the book, Mr. Bristol faced them again, leaning back in his swivel-chair, and said: "Now, children all quiet? One of you begin at the beginning and tell me how it happened."
And children! Why, the old humbug! She's too old; she's had her crop. And, besides all that, I don't mind what the old woman takes. It isn't much. She's a good old darky, faithful as a dog." He arose from his swivel-chair briskly and floated Peter out before him.
Driven out, you say? Yes yes. Anybody hurt? Followed our men through into our tunnel? No, don't do anything till you hear from me. Send Rhys up at once. Let me know any further developments that occur." Hobart hung up the receiver and turned on his swivel-chair toward his chief. "Another outrage, sir, at the hands of Ridgway. It is in regard to those veins in the Copper King that he claims.
It would be a great hit, and it would stand a chance of sticking, like Emerson's 'Compensation." "Delightful! The most amusing part is that you've really a grain of business in your bushel of chaff." Sewell wheeled about in his swivel-chair, and sat facing his guest, deeply sunken in the low easy seat he always took.
Well, take it from me, when the president of the United Manufacturing Corporation pays out any of his greenbacks he don't expect nothing for something, eh? 'I don't understand you yet, said Selwyn quietly. Mr. Benjamin leaned back in his swivel-chair and cut the end of a cigar with a little silver knife. 'Business, he said, 'is business, eh? 'Agreed, was the terse response.
All this and more I learned in the swivel-chair waiting for orders, reading the latest novel that had found its way to Ancon station, and receiving frequent assurances that I should be quite busy enough once I got started. Opposite sat Lieutenant Long pouring choice bits of sub-station orders into the 'phone: "Don't you believe it. That was no accident.
He had lost sight of justice completely, after the fixed habit of his kind, in his eagerness to advance his own prospects by securing the conviction of the accused. Ollie sat facing Judge Maxwell, who had turned in his swivel-chair; moved out of his bearing of studious concentration, which was his usual characteristic on the bench. "Now, Mrs.
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