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Arthur was sitting by his writing-desk, busy with a letter, and did not turn, his head when Charles asked if he remembered whether Harold Hastings had been to his room the morning after the party. 'No, I have not seen him for more than a week, was the reply. 'But he must have been here that morning, Charles continued. 'Try and think. 'I tell you no one was here. I am not quite demented yet.
If you happen to have a conventional writing-desk, a gate-leg table would be charming for books and things. The wing chair and willow chairs, and the hour-glass Chinese chairs, will go beautifully with mahogany things or with oak things. If most of your furniture is to be oak, be sure and select well-made pieces stained a soft brown and waxed. Oak furniture is delightful when it isn't too heavy.
Even as he waited for the end the thought flashed through his mind that, if he must die, this was the manner of death which he would prefer. The test-tube crashed on the writing-desk, and burst into a million pieces. . . . Jimmy opened his eyes. Things seemed to be much about the same as before. He was still alive. The room in which he stood was solid and intact. Nobody was in fragments.
The next instant Shaw pushed open a door and, standing back, waved his guest into a lighted room. On first inspection it was a wholly reassuring room, originally intended for an office and now turned into a combination of office and living-apartment. A big reading-lamp with an amber shade, standing on a flat writing-desk, made a pleasant point of illumination.
Why the buttling? When did you come over? Tell me all!" Mr. Crocker hoisted himself nimbly onto the writing-desk, and sat there, beaming, with dangling legs. "It was your letter that did it, Jimmy. Say, Jim, there wasn't any need for you to do a thing like that just for me." "Well, I thought you would have a better chance of being a peer without me around.
There were facilities for smoking and for drinking, a lounge which showed marks of wear, and a writing-desk in one corner. This desk held the young man's gaze. It was open. Papers lay scattered everywhere and its contents had been rifled and flung on the floor. Some one, in a desperate hurry, had searched every pigeon-hole. The window of the room was open.
She went to the door, then paused for a moment, looking back at all the familiar objects the plain, rich furniture, the book-shelves, the great, comfortable couch, the old-fashioned round mirror that hung between the windows, and her writing-desk of blackened mahogany.
Yes he had better go off to Staffordshire by the early train; and this letter, which he would put upon her writing-desk in the drawing-room, should explain him to Letty. The letter was long and candid, yet by no means without tenderness. "I have written to Asher," it said, "to direct him to send in the morning for the chairs I found in the hall.
She flew like a bird through the drawing-rooms, lighted by lamps burning here and there, till she pushed quietly into her father's study, and put her hand under his arm at the writing-desk. All rosy, imitating the deep and solemn voice of the servant, she said: "Dinner is served!" Darvid felt a stream of warmth and sweetness flowing to his breast. "Oh, you rogue!" said he, "you sunray!
Presently he turned, and, coming to the table where I was sitting, stood looking down intently at me. "Medoline, has it ever occurred to you that you are an unusually attractive bit of womanhood?" I drew back almost as if he had struck me a blow. He smiled. "You are as odd as you are fascinating," he said. He went to his writing-desk.
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