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Updated: May 4, 2025
"But I had not finished my work yet; for I drew out the waste-paper basket presently, and emptied its contents upon the floor, in order that I might make sure of there being no important paper thrown by chance amongst them, before I consigned them to be swept away by the housemaid.
And as the young men of his own years glided by him, or as their talk reached his ears, he became aware that from top to toe, within and without, he was old-fashioned, obsolete, not of his race, not of his day. His rank itself seemed to him a waste-paper title-deed to a heritage long lapsed. Not thus the princely seigneurs of Rochebriant made their 'debut' at the capital of their nation.
There were other attempts at the classical in the decoration of the room; but Lady Everard herself had reduced this idea to bathos by huge quantities of signed photographs in silver frames, by large waste-paper baskets, lined with blue satin and trimmed with pink rosettes, by fans which were pockets, stuffed cats which were paperweights, oranges which were pincushions, and other debris from those charitable and social bazaars of which she was a constant patroness.
You will find your laddie's soiled collars in his waste-paper basket; his slippers will depend from the corner of the picture you had framed for him on his last birthday; his dress-suit will be crumpled upon his wardrobe shelf, and his chiffonier be heaped with a conglomeration of foils, neckties, dead boutonnières, visiting-cards, base-balls, odd gloves, notebook, handkerchiefs, railway guides, emptied envelopes, caramel papers, button hooks, fugitive verses, blacking brushes, inkstand, hair brushes the mother who reads this can complete the inventory, if she has abundant patience, and time is no object with her.
Why should he not allow human eye to fall, even from the distance prescribed by good manners, upon his precious manuscript? Why need he use care so scrupulous as not to expose even torn up bits of rough draft to the ancillary publicity of a waste-paper basket? Soundness of mind did not lie that way.
'When you talk to me of this Country and its future, vous prechez un converti. 'I thought you were the Jonah of our day, she said, with her abrupt and rather disdainful smile. Manisty laughed. 'A Jonah who needn't complain anyway that his Nineveh is too ready to hear him. 'Where is the preaching? she asked. 'In the waste-paper basket, said Manisty, throwing away his cigarette.
"The kid may be able to write some day," and dropped the sheets into the waste-paper basket. Why had he paid for them, then? Dinville knew what he was about. He reached for a sheet of copy-paper and wrote the following dispatch He filed it in the cable office without delay. Before midnight he got a reply.
He was to bring back Stella, and later on they were to be joined at dinner by Mrs. Comerford and Mrs. Terence. "I'm afraid no one ever wrote to tell poor Eileen," Lady O'Gara said to herself, with a whimsical glance at the letter basket and the flanking waste-paper basket. The telling that was in her mind referred to the approaching marriage of Terry and Stella.
Miss Farringdon would have been horrified had she known that a portion of the wood was set apart by Elisabeth as "Athene's Grove," and that the contents of the waste-paper basket were daily begged from the servants by the devotee, and offered up, by the aid of real matches, on the shrine of the goddess.
More archives were destroyed in the so-called "Age of Lead" the closing period of Bour-bonism than under Saracens and Corsairs combined. It was quite the regular thing to sell them as waste-paper to the shopkeepers. Some of them escaped this fate by the veriest miracle so those of the celebrated Certoza of San Lorenzo in Padula.
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