... attitude was one of rather sleepy repose, there were signs of a hasty rearrangement of the mise en scene, which corroborated the aural evidence which reached him in the hall. Near the door to the reception room was a piece of paper; he slipped on a round "Carteret" pencil as he went to his desk in a silence that he felt that he could not break, without also breaking a ... — Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
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