the adventures of papyrus animation

... of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the tune, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the ... against the table, was beautifully defined The sewing-machine, of the hand type, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side of it farthest from the thumb, mstead of being ... Windibank, that in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and a slight defect m the tail of the 'r.’ There are fourteen other characteristics, but those are the more obvious.” "We

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... account of his domes: of his summons to Odessa m the case of the Trepotf murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which ... "t” woven into the texture of the paper "What do you make of that?” asked Holmes “The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather.” Trang 7"Not at all The ‘G' with the small 't ... and successfully for the reigning farmly of Holland Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, [knew little of my former friend

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... but the others were there before us The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived I paid the man and hurried into the church There was not a soul there ... neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street.” “Precisely.” “Then you may entirely ... me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front It was the most preposterous position in which Lever found myself in my life, and it was the thought of it

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... I took the paper from him and read as follows Trang 6To the Red-Headed League: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S A., there is now another vacancy ... course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to nay memory In the present instance | am forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my ... done in China I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature of the subject That trick of staining the fishes’ scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... young the music issued at the lips There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air Cardiff Hill, beyond the ... sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work the very thought of it burnt him like fire He got out his worldly wealth and examined it bits of ... considerable money; but if they were Trang 10-34- offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 07:15

... was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of his head and hung ... bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of the bushes Then we lit the candles, and crawled in on our hands and ... Trang 1THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 2 WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 09:15

... rafter and the clapboards of the roof I greased it up and went to work There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from ... here and there He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden ... heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language mostly hove at the nigger and the govment, though he give the tub some, too,

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 09:15

... and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and ... t'other side of the river I was out of the hole; him and his raft was just a speck on the water away off yonder. I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the ... below the house and then dumped him into the river. Now I thought of something else. So I went and got the bag of meal and my old saw out of the canoe, and fetched them to the house. I took the

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 09:15

... is all perfectly familiar to me There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady The crudest of writers could invent nothing ... analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive In these cases, ... to them, and so they have the use of the money just while I am staying with them Of course, that is only just for the time Mr Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it over to mother,

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... away a couple of hours.” I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the sofa and tried ... gun and strolled out in the direction of the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit warren which is upon the other side On my way Lsaw William Crowder, the game-keeper, as he ... Trang 1THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (2) Mr James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called and gave evidence

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... Turner Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pmmacies which marked the site of the rich landowner's dwelling On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods ... story He ran when he saw his father on the ground Then here are the father’s feet as he paced up and down What is this, then’? It is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening And this? ... until we were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a great beech, the largest tree in the neighborhood Holmes traced his way to the farther side of this and lay down once

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... America Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern states, ... the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British ... side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... it as the front of a picture does to the back It was one of the mam arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west The roadway was blocked with the ummense stream of commerce ... remember the order of the houses here It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the littl newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban ... "for they can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely im bed Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their work the longer time they will have for their escape

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... dining-breakfast-room, and library, combined The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her ... doughnut Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling They raged ... hard-fought battle Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... down the rest of the oration It was of a pattern which does not vary, and so it is familiar to us all -52- Trang 10 The latter third of the speech was marred by the resumption of fights and other ... built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, ... the hand is as necessary as is the inevitable sheet of music in the hand of a singer who stands forward on the platform and sings a solo at a concert though why, is a mystery: for neither the

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it 'bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean You see that piece that's got the ... this time the dental instruments were ready. The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost. Then she seized the chunk of fire ... fetch the other piece to it, and so that helps the blood to draw the wart, and pretty soon off she comes." "Yes, that's it, Huck... peppering fire of giggles from the whole school Then the master

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... and the other with another In a little while the two met at the bottom of the lane, and when they reached the school they had it all to themselves Then they sat together, with a slate before them, ... to the corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and come back I'll go the other way and come it over 'em the same way." So the one went off with one group of ... soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees Away off in the flaming sunshine, Cardiff Hill lifted its soft green sides through a shimmering veil of heat, tinted with the purple of

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... creeping along the roof of the "ell" on all fours He "meow'd" with caution once or twice, as he went; then jumped to the roof of the woodshed and thence to the ground Huckleberry Finn was there, with ... with his dead cat The boys moved off and disappeared in the gloom At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard It was a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western ... it They cast down their load and began to open the grave The doctor put the lantern at the head of the grave and came and sat down with his back against one of the elm trees He was so close the

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... only reply, and the boys fixed their eyes on the goal of their hopes and bent to their work to win it. They gained steadily on it, and at last, breast to breast, they burst through the open door ... and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away. A figure crept stealthily through a break in the other end of the ruined building, now, but they ... presently the temptation rose up strong again and the boys agreed to try, with the understanding that they would take to their heels if the snoring stopped. So they went tiptoeing stealthily down, the

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... reckon they'd a got the corpse they was after. Well, I see I warn't hurt, thanks to goodness. The boat floated on and went out of sight around the shoulder of the island. I could hear the ... slipped out and into the edge of the woods. I sat down there on a log, and looked out through the leaves. I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river. But in a little ... in the leaves, and I see a bunch of smoke laying on the water a long ways up -- about abreast the ferry. And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down. I knowed what was the

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15