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Updated: May 12, 2025
"No," he said, crumpling the paper and throwing it into the wastepaper basket, "that won't do!" He walked about the room for a few minutes, and then he went back to bed, and lay there with his hands clasped about his head. "I don't see why I shouldn't get married myself," he said, and then he went to sleep.
Peggy, armed with the wastepaper basket and the skin, followed open-mouthed. At the seat William paused. "Peggy, you put the basket over his head an' pin his arms down case he struggles, an' tie the skin wot I shot round him, case he struggles." Peggy stood upon the seat and obeyed. Their victim made no protest. He seemed to himself to be in some horrible dream.
The wastepaper baskets of these closed counting-houses would let me into many hints of business matters if I had the exploration of them; and what secrets of the heart should I discover on the 'pads' of the young clerks the sheets of cartridge-paper and blotting-paper interposed between their writing and their desks!
He stepped out boldly into the dusk with his pop-gun, followed by the blindly obedient Peggy carrying the wastepaper basket in one hand and the skin in the other. Mr. Percival Jones was making quite a little ceremony of consigning his brandy and cigars to the waves. He had composed "a little effort" upon it which began, "O deeps, receive these objects vile, Which nevermore mine eyes shall soil."
No success attended the experiment; at the end of a twelvemonth not a score of copies had been sold. By common consent the firm, which had been increased to four partners, broke up their association, and Balzac was left sole proprietor of the concern, the assets of which consisted of a large quantity of wastepaper, and the liabilities amounted to a respectable number of thousand francs.
At the time he had indeed dropped her angrily by the scruff of the neck into a wastepaper basket to repent of her sins; but here she was again, and the Canon had patiently rewritten the sheets. There were not many softnesses in the Canon's life. The kitten was one; of the other perhaps only his sister, nearly as old as himself, who lived with him, was aware.
"You take " he looked round the room "You take the wastepaper basket to put over his head an' an' pin down his arms an' somethin' to tie him up! I know the skin I he shot in Africa. You can tie its paws in front of him. Come on! Let's catch him smugglin'."
It so happened, however, that the day after she threw Lady Maresfield's invitation into the wastepaper basket she received a visit from a certain Mrs. Donovan, whom she had occasionally seen in Hill Street. She vaguely knew this lady for a busybody, but she was in a situation which even busybodies might alleviate. Mrs.
'But I want her to know' Lady John spoke while glancing through a letter before consigning it to the wastepaper basket 'the moment she comes down she must be told that the new plans arrived by the morning post. 'Plans, m'la 'She'll understand. There they are. The lady held up a packet about which she had just snapped an elastic band. 'I'll put them here.
During the journey from Turin to Genoa, Garibaldi was occupied in opening, reading and tearing up into small pieces an enormous mass of letters, while his English companion spent the time in vainly speculating as to what this vast correspondence was about. When they approached Genoa, the floor of the railway carriage resembled a gigantic wastepaper basket.
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