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Clover had spread a pretty towel over the bare table, laid some books and her writing-case upon it, and was now pinning up a photograph over the mantel-piece. "We'll make it nice by-and-by," she said cheerfully; "and now that I've tidied up a little, I think I'll go and see what has become of Mrs. Watson. She'll think I have quite forgotten her. You'll lie quiet and rest till dinner, won't you?"
Give him also a sword or pair of pistols. Burn immediately a small bundle, tied with a red string, which you will find in the little flat writing-case that which we used with the curricle. The bundle is marked "Put." You may hand them to Mari, if you please. My letters to Clara are in the same bundle. You, and by-and-by Aaron Burr Alston, may laugh at gamp when you look over this nonsense.
Furlong was sitting in his private apartment at the Castle, doing "the state some service" by reading the morning papers, which heavy official duty he relieved occasionally by turning to some scented notes which lay near a morocco writing-case, whence they had been drawn by the lisping dandy to flatter his vanity.
I forgot the notepaper. Of course you can't use that notepaper. Of course not. He'd know it in a minute. Besides, the sheet we burned had an engraved address on it. I never thought of that good gracious!" "Wait wait," said Mona, her face lighting. "I may have some sheets in my writing-case. It's only a chance, but there were some loose sheets in it when I left home. I'll go and see."
She would light her candle, and, as there was no chance of her going to sleep, sit up, put her dressing-jacket on and begin to write a long letter home to Aunt Raby and to her little sisters. Such methodical work would calm nerves not often so highly strung. She rose, and fetching her neat little leather writing-case from where she had placed it on the top of her bureau, prepared to open it.
Lady Northmoor was carried into a bedroom, and Constance was shut out into a room that photographed itself on her memory, even in that moment a room like a box, with a rough table, a few folding-chairs, an easel, water-coloured drawings hung about in all directions, a big travelling-case, a few books, a writing-case, Mrs.
Bring your masterly intellect to bear on the industrial problem." Mrs. Ansell restored the innumerable implements to her writing-case, and laid her arm with a caressing gesture on Mrs. Westmore's shoulder. "Don't tease her. She's tired, and she misses the baby." "I shall get a telegram tomorrow morning," exclaimed the young mother, brightening. "Of course you will.
Ah! by the bye, I suppose Cheviot has put a fresh lock on Mary's writing-case. 'I suspect some of Mary's correspondence will devolve on me. Harry has asked me already. 'I wished you had mentioned more about the letters of late. Leonard wanted to know more than I could tell him. 'You don't mean that you have seen him? O, Tom, how kind of you!
I have a very great mind to put this letter," and as he spoke he carefully cut round the seals "and the other missives away in my writing-case until I am alone " Here Uncle Paul unfolded a letter upon the top of which was stamped the Royal Arms, and smoothed it out upon the tablecloth "and read it in peace, without being pestered by an impertinent boy. Bless my heart! Why, Pickle, my boy!
'Mary has heard twice. He held out Mary's little leathern writing-case to her. 'O, Tom! 'It is only Mary. Ethel accepted the plea, aware that there could be no treason between herself and Mary, and moreover that the letters had been read by all the family. She turned the key, looked them out, and standing by the window to catch the light, began to read
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