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He tore it open and read: Call on Madame Christophor this afternoon. He frowned and threw the unsigned telegram into a wastepaper-basket. "That decides it," he muttered to himself. "I will not call upon Madame Christophor." Nevertheless, he changed into calling attire and presently strolled out once more into the sunshine. From habit he turned into the Champs Elysees.
I had intended to tear the thing in pieces without a glance, and fling it into the wastepaper-basket. But I took the glance and I hesitated. The girl in the photograph was small and slight, and she looked straight out of the picture with large eyes that met and challenged mine. How well I remembered them, those Irish-blue eyes under their expressive, rather heavy brows.
Strange, the influence which such a simple life has upon the mind: letters, and newspapers, and the topics of the day, and the world in general, have little interest for the time being, and get buried in the wastepaper-basket of trivialities, while the weather, and the state of the track, and little things in Nature, assume gigantic proportions and fill the mind.
We need not, therefore, feel much regret that the war has swept them, with so many other pre-war schemes, into the wastepaper-basket. As a subject of international discussion it has had its place, and an increasingly important place, for at least eight years past in the studies of the sections and the discussions of the Association meeting.
He took a sudden step forward and kicked the wastepaper-basket into the fireplace. "I might even take up football some day, if this goes on," he smiled, and then abruptly recovered his solemnity. "Beneficial and profitable," he repeated gravely. "Those are to be our watchwords. Will you have a weed?" The junior partner started out of the reverie into which he had fallen.
But Sir Thomas Ingell was of sterner stuff. He must have spent a happy week-end too. The letter which we received from him on Monday proved him to be a kinless loon of upright life, for no woman, however remotely interested in a man would have let it pass the home wastepaper-basket.
Emerson and Whittier put these things in the wastepaper-basket; and though only a literary nursery-maid who provides moral pap for the young, I will follow their illustrious example; for I shall have no time to eat or sleep if I try to satisfy these dear unreasonable children'; and Mrs Jo swept away the entire batch with a sigh of relief.
Author is a generic name which can, like the name of all other professions, signify good or bad, worthy of respect or ridicule, useful and agreeable, or trash for the wastepaper-basket. We think that the author of a good work should refrain from three things from putting his name, save very modestly, from the epistle dedicatory, and from the preface.
Peter flung the one-sided interview into the wastepaper-basket, and slipping his notebook into his pocket, departed to drink tea with a lady novelist, whose great desire, as stated in a postscript to her invitation, was to avoid publicity, if possible. Tommy, as soon as Peter's back was turned, fished it out again. An hour later in the fog around St.
On the night of the day upon which Berselius had paid his visit to M. Cambon, Adams, seated in the smoking room at a writing table before a broad sheet of white paper covered with words, suddenly took the paper, tore it up, and threw the pieces in a wastepaper-basket. He had been trying to put in language the story of the Congo as it had been revealed to him.
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