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And, tearing the paper across, he flung the halves into the waste-paper basket and bowed. Poor Brown's face was still a picture of distraction. "But I don't even begin to understand," he cried. "What bill? what blunder? what loss?" Mr P. G. Northover advanced in the centre of the room, thoughtfully, and with a great deal of unconscious dignity.
Gabriel tossed the card over to his nephew with a look of inquiry: Joseph sneered at it, and threw it into a waste-paper basket. "Tell them we don't wish to see them," he answered. "We " "Stop a bit!" interrupted Gabriel. "I think perhaps we'd better see them. We may as well see them, and have done with it. Bring them in, Neale."
Her surmise was, as a matter of fact, the correct one. Ogier had employed the head chambermaid to give him the contents of Dorise's waste-paper basket from time to time, hence the knowledge he had gained. "Are you actually going to Malines?" asked Dorise of the girl. "Yes. As your messenger," the other replied with a smile. "I am leaving to-night.
There wasn't anything he wouldn't believe," said Stalky. "And handed it all up to the Head, with an extempore prayer. It took about forty pages," said Beetle. "I helped him a lot." "And then, you crazy idiots?" said Abanazar. "Oh, we were sent for; and Stalky asked to have the 'depositions' read out, and the Head knocked him spinning into a waste-paper basket.
At his feet was a waste-paper basket. Fixed upon him he saw, while pretending not to see, the eyes of Mrs. Earle burning with suspicion. If he destroyed the note, he knew suspicion would become certainty. Without an instant of hesitation, carelessly he tossed it intact into the waste-paper basket. Toward Rose Gerard he swung the revolving chair. "Go on, please," he commanded.
Lord Chetney's arrival, last night, turned them into waste-paper. You were suddenly in debt for thousands of pounds for much more than you could ever possibly pay. No one knew that you and your brother had met at Madame Zichy's.
Rawlinson collected and gave to the Bodleian a mass of unsorted documents, including, as we have seen, even the logs of recent voyages, and the pickings of "grocers' waste-paper." In each case the industry of the collector was constantly rewarded by the discovery of valuable literary materials, which would have been lost under ordinary circumstances.
To an empty-headed woman I can imagine the soldier type proving vapid and uninteresting; to the woman of mind he represents her ideal of man a creature strong, handsome, well-dressed, and not too clever." "That gives us two votes for the army," remarked MacShaughnassy, as Brown tore his sister's letter in two, and threw the pieces into the waste-paper basket. "What says the common-sensed girl?"
The studies he had finished in Madrid aroused his compassion; in Italy he would first really begin to become an artist: there work must bring him what it had here denied: satisfaction, success! Gay as a boy, half frantic with joy, happiness and expectation, he crushed the sketches, which seemed to him too miserable, into the waste-paper basket with a maul-stick.
The duke tore the paper up and threw it into the waste-paper basket. Luigi Callucci, who was his servant, gathered the scraps out of the basket and pasted them together. This same Luigi also wrapped up the picture and carried it to Shayne. That's all, officially. Actually, there is a good deal more.
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