What annoys you, my child, is that I laugh while you are writing; and what you are afraid of is that Madame de Saint-Remy, your mother, should come up here, as she does sometimes when we laugh too loud, that she should surprise us, and that she should see that enormous
sheet of paper upon which, in a quarter of an hour, you have only traced the words Monsieur Raoul.
Imagine a vast
sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows -- only hard and with luminous edges -- and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.
I should be very sorry to receive a charming little lady-like note from any of them; and I thought you were too much of a lady yourself, Miss Murray, to talk about the "vulgarity" of writing on a large
sheet of paper.'
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a
sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol."
I would then take a
sheet of paper, and write across the top of it, in a neat hand, the heading, "Memorandum of Pip's debts;" with Barnard's Inn and the date very carefully added.
We will take a new
sheet of paper, if you please, and begin over again, with my best respects to you.
He rummaged in the drawer for a
sheet of paper, found one, and began to write.
Thomson drew the thin
sheet of paper from its envelope and swept a space for himself at the corner of the table.
If these rules were observed for a year, she made out on a
sheet of paper that the completion of the book was certain, and she laid her scheme before her mother with a feeling that much of the task was already accomplished.
In the middle of this table lay a single
sheet of paper, evidently left there on purpose.
I am at the end of my second
sheet of paper, and Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apraksins'.
At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time--a
sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place.