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Besides, no one else would know how to look after him, he is so helpless. His inkstand would never be filled, and he would always be out of stamps and visiting-cards. He would never remember to have his umbrella re-covered, or to ask the price of anything before he bought it. Why, he wouldn't even know what novels to read.
De gentlemen is in de drawin'-room," Prilla answered, handing two visiting-cards to her young mistress. "'Donald Keith, U.S.A.," read Violet with a brightening countenance, as she glanced at the first. On the other was inscribed, "L. Raymond, U.S.N." Violet hastening to the drawing-room, met her cousin with outstretched hand and cordial greeting. "I am so glad you have come, Cousin Donald!
The art of building barricades was also you never would suspect it! very ardently and conscientiously studied. This special branch of the science of fortification reckoned more than one Vauban and Gribeauval among its numbers. "Professor of barricading," was a title honored at the Cafe de Seville, and one that they would willingly have had engraved upon their visiting-cards.
The Grey party, being also Roman, disapproved of Ugo on general principles and particularly because he had been a spy, but the Whites, not being Romans at all and entertaining an especial detestation for every distinctly Roman opinion, received him at his own estimation, as society receives most people who live in good houses, give good dinners and observe the proprieties in the matter of visiting-cards.
Hereupon my new acquaintance put into my hand one of his visiting-cards, which contained as follows: General-Commodore-Judge-Colonel PEOPLE'S FRIEND: Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Leaplow, near his Majesty the King of Leaphigh. "Sir," said I, pulling off my hat with a profound reverence, "I was not aware to whom I had the honor of speaking.
And he was willing to listen he wanted to know it all. There were umbrellas for dogs, to be fastened over their backs in wet weather; there were manicure and toilet sets, and silver medicine-chests, and jewel-studded whips. There were sets of engraved visiting-cards; there were wheel-chairs in which invalid cats and dogs might be taken for an airing.
The youngest member present was the first to recover. He seemed much less concerned over the identity of the murdered man than at the interruption of the narrative. "Oh, please let him go on!" he cried. "What happened then? You say you found two visiting-cards. How do you know which card was that of the murdered man?"
"Is the Canon in?" Ronder asked of a small and gaping page-boy. He was in, it appeared. Would he see Canon Ronder? The page-boy disappeared and Ronder was able to observe three family trees framed in oak, a large china bowl with visiting-cards, and a huge round-faced clock that, even as he waited there, pompously announced that half-hour.
Then she left him; she had gained nothing. At her house she found in the waiting-room the marketwoman, who had come to present a bouquet to her. She remembered that her husband was a State minister. There were telegrams, visiting-cards and letters, congratulations and solicitations. Madame Marmet wrote to recommend her nephew to General Lariviere.
Then she left him; she had gained nothing. At her house she found in the waiting-room the marketwoman, who had come to present a bouquet to her. She remembered that her husband was a State minister. There were telegrams, visiting-cards and letters, congratulations and solicitations. Madame Marmet wrote to recommend her nephew to General Lariviere.
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