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Everything is black, and the more fashionable the family the deeper the black. The deepest crape is worn by the women. Writing-paper is inscribed with a deep band, also visiting cards. Women use jet as jewelry, and white pearls are replaced by black ones. Even servants are garbed in mourning for the departed, who, they believe, have gone to the most beautiful paradise possible to conceive.
"I suppose I'd better look into this poem." "You are not to laugh at it!" "I shall weep." "No; you are not to weep. Promise." "What am I to promise?" "That you will read it unmoved." "I do promise solemnly, cheerfully." "Then come and get it." I went over and stood under the window. Georgiana soon returned and dropped down to me a piece of writing-paper.
It is true that he will not answer letters; but then his writing-paper is generally drowned deeper than plummet can sound; his pens are rusty, and his ink is of the consistency of tar; but he will always answer questions, with an incredible patience and sympathy, correcting one's mistakes in a genial and tentative way, as if a matter admitted of many opinions.
This was on Monday; on Friday we presented ourselves again to Madame L. Hernandez. She received us politely, almost graciously; she sat in the great chair behind the counter, engaged in the truly feminine occupation of putting up her hair in curl-papers. A pad of stiff, white writing-paper lay on the counter before her, and from it she tore the strips as she needed them.
My poor little body was all bandaged, but I jumped with joy at this, and quite consoled, I whispered in a coaxing way, "I should like to have some writing-paper with a motto of my own." My mother asked me rather slyly what my motto was.
She caught up a large brush, dipped it in the paint, and going to the picture panting and crimson she daubed it from top to bottom, blotting out the eyes, the mouth, the beautiful outline of the head above all, the hands, whose delicate whiteness specially enraged her. When the work of wreck was done, she stood a moment gazing at it. Then, violently, she looked for writing-paper.
If the paper is to be tinted or body-colored, colors made from aniline are generally used. Only in the highest grade of writing-paper and in some few papers that demand colors fast to the light is any other order of coloring matter employed.
A frozen lump of snow, lingering late in one of the gnarled tufts of the hedge? She stepped forward to examine. It proved to be a little piece of stiff writing-paper compressed into a round shape. She understood it instantly; it was the paper that had served as wadding for the murderer's gun.
"Lucien surely has written you a line since he came back, has he not?" he asked. "This is all that I have," answered the lawyer, and he held out a note on Mme. Sechard's writing-paper. "Very well," said Cerizet, "let Doublon be in wait at the Palet Gate about ten minutes before sunset; tell him to post his gendarmes, and you shall have our man."
I offered her the freedom of the writing-paper drawer; and, while I looked on, she folded and refolded with a practiced hand, until the table beside us was covered, not only with boats compared with which mine was as a dory to an ocean liner, but also with a score of other pretty and somewhat intricate paper toys. "Who taught you to make all these lovely things?" I asked.
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