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Updated: May 15, 2025
Suddenly I was conscious of a pale pink glow which suffused my writing-pad, and I heard a soft but unmistakable thud as of a pinguid body falling in the immediate vicinity. Taking off my boots, I stole gently down to the scullery and applied the spectroscope to the keyhole. To my mingled amazement and ecstasy, I perceived a large dome-shaped fabric blocking up the entire back garden.
"I'm thinking of the poor woman in Wales, too, and the poor woman in there." He jerked his head. Then, in a calmer tone: "I guessed at dinner where you came from. Colonel Boundary sent you." Pinto shrugged. "Let us mention no names," he said politely. "And who is Colonel Boundary, anyway?" Crotin was at his desk now. He had taken out his cheque-book and slapped it down upon the writing-pad.
We'll choke off that foolish notion of theirs; we'll smother it before it has a chance to mature." She put a pen into Daffingdon's hand, with the open expectation of immediate results. She herself always thought better with a pen in her hand and a writing-pad under it; no doubt a painter would respond to the same stimulus.
He looked like a plucked cockatoo as he went out. He stood thinking a moment, and then with a look of sudden determination he went to his writing-table and sat down to it. Drawing a writing-pad towards him, he wrote as follows: 'MY DEAR AUBREY Your future father-in-law has just been insulting and harrying me in ways which no civilized State had ever heard of before the war.
The desk opened with the drawer or rather unrolled itself a flexible wood-flap running back when it was opened, and releasing a lid that made one-half of the writing-pad when turned back. The letters were under the other half, the old packet being in a small drawer with the parcel marked "Hair." These were evidently precious. Never mind! Gwen would keep them safe.
"If I practise hard," he murmured, "I shall master it." Hilary rose and brought him paper and a pencil. In bending, he saw that Mr. Stone's eyes were dim with moisture. This sight affected him so that he was glad to turn away and fetch a book to form a writing-pad. When Mr. Stone had finished, he sat back in his chair with closed eyes.
Here were reports, signed statements, photographs, personal descriptions, facsimiles of finger-prints, telegrams, letters, surveyors' plans, notes everything, important and unimportant, that might have a possible bearing on the case. The superintendent turned over the pages with a moistened forefinger, and made a note now and again on a writing-pad by his side.
Let us make ourselves comfortable and light our pipes before we begin." He provided himself with a writing-pad, and, when we had seated ourselves and got our pipes well alight, Jervis opened the document, and with a premonitory "hem!" commenced the reading. "In the name of God Amen. This is the last will and testament of me John Bellingham of number 141 Queen Square in the parish of St.
Propped up with pillows I began with pencil and writing-pad to put it down in some sort of order, and went on with it at intervals during the whole six weeks of my confinement, and in this way produced the first rough draft of the book.
He left her, and she watched him across the lawn with the detached affection of the old in her eyes; then she took up, not her knitting or her writing-pad, but the little book of devotions that lay in a fold of her shawl, and started to read, her lips moving slightly but soundlessly. In the four-acre field there was a strong wind blowing that for days had been drying the turned earth to powder.
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