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Impress on your class that many Greeks and most Romans were frightfully stupid, and if they disbelieve you, read Ctesiphon with them, or Valerius Flaccus. Whatever is that noise?" "It comes from your class-room, I think," snapped the other master. "So it does. Ah, yes. I expect they are putting your little Tewson into the waste-paper basket." "I always lock my class-room in the interval " "Yes?"
In truth, Major White never sent telegrams, and rarely received them. He blew out his cheeks and said a second time that he was damned. Then he threw the telegram into a waste-paper basket, which was rarely put to so legitimate a use; for the major never wrote letters if he could help it, and received so few that they hardly kept him supplied in pipe-lights.
Thomson o' the auld toon no' send ye this bit waste-paper codicil he called it, or come to see ye aboot it? 'No, he didna, replied the Minister, 'neither he nor any ither doctor has been i' my manse yet, an' I hope never wull. 'On your hon began the other.
Nominal donations of clothes, if the money value of the articles be presented instead, will entitle the givers to similar honours." The Peking Gazette, August 22, 1892. In the centre of the green stands the hollow pillar in which Chinese printed waste-paper is reverently burnt. "When letters were invented," the Chinese say, "Heaven rejoiced and Hell trembled."
It was only later that I saw the significance of the instinctive French phrase. He rose, glanced around him, pounced on a little silver match-box and an empty wire waste-paper basket, and contorting his mobile face into a hideous grimace of imbecility, began to juggle with these two objects and his cigar, displaying the faultless technique of the professional.
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. The girl had now reached the climax of her story, but the eyes of Mrs. Earle betrayed the fact that her thoughts were elsewhere. With an intense and hungry longing, they were concentrated upon her own waste-paper basket.
A peculiar smile lingered for a moment on Julius's face. He threw the letter into the waste-paper basket. "The darned fool!" he murmured. AFTER ringing up Sir James, Tommy's next procedure was to make a call at South Audley Mansions. He found Albert discharging his professional duties, and introduced himself without more ado as a friend of Tuppence's. Albert unbent immediately.
Things went on nicely for a time; scratching with a pen was as easy as rubbing Aladdin's Lamp; and my blank check-book seemed to be a dictionary of possibilities, in which I could find all the synonymes of happiness, and realize any one of them on the spot. A check came back to me at last with these two words on it, NO FUNDS. My check-book was a volume of waste-paper.
Most of those present, including myself, would have sworn on oath that we had seen the commandant a few minutes before and that he had caused all the trouble. But then what is one to do? It seems not unlikely that they all found their way into the office waste-paper basket by the most direct route.
He is always spelling out words from them, and chalking them over the table and the shop-wall, and asking what this is and what that is; but his whole stock from beginning to end may easily be the waste-paper he bought it as, for anything I can say. It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents.
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