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The word urgent, twice underlined, was written in the top left-hand corner of the envelope. "Listen, Semyon," I began. "I feel uneasy about your master. I fancy he has some mischief in his mind. We must find him." "Yes, sir," answered Semyon. "It is true there is such a fog that one cannot see a couple of yards ahead; but all the same we must do our best.
These few words, in Nella's large scrawling hand, filled one side of the paper. At the bottom was a P.T.O. He turned over, and read the sentence, underlined, 'P.S. Keep an eye on Rocco. 'I wonder what the little creature is up to? he murmured, as he tore the letter into small fragments, and threw them into the waste-paper basket.
Yes, it is for me; I forgot ... yes, of course.... No name, no place, but so clear and lovely. The first word was underlined. I do not know how I got home. I remember I sat on a stone by the roadside and read the letter and put it in my pocket, and walked on till I came to another stone and did the same again. Skriv ikke. But did that mean I might come and perhaps speak with her?
As for me, I believe in your future, and I have proved it by my proposition; but, unfortunately, I am only an intermediary, and not the lender of money." Caffie emphasized the words, "my proposition," and underlined them with a glance; but Saniel did not appear to understand. "And the upholsterer's summons?" he asked. "You may be easy on that point. I have attended to it.
Rex laughed aloud, until the tears started to his eyes, as they fell on the words "Care of Miss Pluma," heavily underlined in the lower corner. "That is just like careless little romping Birdie," he mused. "She supposes, because she knows who Miss Pluma is, every one else must certainly be aware of the same fact."
Her hair was white, with a soft, youthful whiteness that haloed her head as if it was a joke of old Time's. She was new to her office, and was conscious of a critical atmosphere that subtly underlined the formality of the proceedings an official formality that made the meeting of the lady managers of this Old People's Home a formidable affair.
She had left the house where she was employed that morning, to transact some errand connected with her work in the town; she must have been followed, and dogged on her way back through solitary wood-paths, for some of the wood-rangers belonging to the great house had found her lying there, stabbed to death, but not dead; with the poniard again plunged through the fatal writing, once more; but this time with the word "un" underlined, so as to show that the assassin was aware of his previous mistake.
Bouvard was the first to grow tired of it, and, dealing frankly with the subject, demonstrated how artificial and limping it was, the silliness of its incidents, and the absurdity of the disclosures made to confidants. They then went in for comedy, which is the school for fine shading. Every sentence must be dislocated, every word must be underlined, and every syllable must be weighed.
Here was a verse underlined; at some gracious passages the page was much fingered and worn; in one place there were stains that looked like the mark of tears; then again, in one page, there was a small tress of hair, golden hair, tied in a paper with a name across it, that seemed to be the name of a little sister of his mother's that died a child; and again there were a few withered flowers, like little sad ghosts, stuck through a paper on which was written his father's name the name of the sad, harsh, silent man whom Anthony had feared with all his heart.
She had left the house where she was employed that morning, to transact some errand connected with her work in the town; she must have been followed, and dogged on her way back through solitary wood-paths, for some of the wood-rangers belonging to the great house had found her lying there, stabbed to death, but not dead; with the poniard again plunged through the fatal writing, once more; but this time with the word 'un' underlined, so as to show that the assassin was aware of his precious mistake.
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