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I think of all the green things I have loved of malachite in matrix and table-top; of jade, not factory-hewn baubles, but age-mellowed signets, fashioned by lovers of their craft, and seasoned by the toying yellow fingers of generations of forgotten Chinese emperors jade, as Dunsany would say, of the exact shade of the right color.
Lat. 27 degrees 40 minutes, long. 122 degrees 54 minutes. Cloudy night." The next day we sighted a big range to the East across a deep valley, and a broken table-top range to the North. Following down the little creek we came on a shallow native well, quite dry; crossing the grassy flat in which it was dug, winding through a thicket, we again reached open sand.
The foreman rapped vigorously with an inkwell, splashing the fluid over his fingers and quite a considerable area of table-top. "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Let us talk this thing over quietly and calmly. Mr. Pushkin seems to have a wrong conception as to what constitutes evidence. Now, let me have the floor for a few minutes, and I'll try to explain to him what constitutes evidence."
He ascended the stairs leading to the dais and addressed a few words to the judge, who glanced in our direction and nodded, whereupon we both gleefully followed our counsel, Polton carrying the box and beaming with delight. The judge's table was provided with a shallow drawer which pulled out at the side and which accommodated the box comfortably, leaving the small table-top free for the papers.
He stoops down with his hands on his knees, gets the table-top on a level with the flicker of firelight, and "moons" the object, as it were. Time to turn in. It is very dark inside and bright moonlight without; every crack seems like a ghost peering in. Some of the men will roll up their swags on the morrow and depart; some will take another day's spell. It is all according to the tucker.
See, Nick, how the light shines through!" and he tilted up the flagon. "It is one of old Jake Vessaline's Murano-Venetian glasses; a beautiful thing, now, is it not? 'Tis good as any made abroad!" but his hand was shaking so that half the cordial missed the cup and ran into a little shimmering pool upon the table-top. "And thou'lt send him home again, daddy, wilt thou not?"
Madame Binat dropped a fat arm on the table-top, filled Dick's glass anew, and looked at him closely under the stars. There was no need that he should bow his head in assent and say 'No. He is a man, but if it should arrive... blamest thou? 'I blame? she laughed shrilly. 'Who am I that I should blame any one except those who try to cheat me over their consommations. But it is very terrible.
Maggie now swung the back of a laundry bench up to form a table-top, and upon it proceeded to spread a cloth and arrange a medley of chipped dishes.
Ray was looking about the garish room plush chairs, heavy carpets, brocade hangings, shining table-top, silly desk. "Two hundred and seventy-five a month," the clerk was saying. "With the yearly lease, of course. Otherwise it's three twenty-five." He seemed quite indifferent. Ray said nothing. "We'll let you know," said Cora. The man walked to the door. "I can't hold it for you, you know.
And she pointed to the bulbous green animal that wriggled on the table-top. "So they do," he said; "but how did they know anything about it?" quite forgetting the question of its removal in the new problem that was presented. "Oh, I fancy that most really good paintings are well-known to dealers.
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