With this ghastly toy she kept playing as she spoke, apparently unconscious of its grim significance.

She was surrounded by some ten or a dozen distinguished-looking men, most of whom were profusely _decore_.

They made way courteously at our approach.

Dalrymple then presented me.

I made my bow, was graciously received, and dropped modestly into the rear.
"I began to think that Captain Dalrymple had forsworn Paris," said Rachel, still toying with the skeleton dagger.