Here it is!" He displayed before the astonished eyes of Nelly Lebrun a paper covered with an exact duplicate of her own swift, dainty script.

Nothing could be easier for a man like Hillan ex-criminalto have obtained a duplicate key, before handing over possession of the keys.

I had a duplicate key which Sir Horace had made.

" "And I see you also have a duplicate key of the desk.

Hand me over the duplicate key of the door by which you came in, and also the key of the desk which you had still less right to have in your possession.

These he cannot duplicate at any furbisher's shop as you who live within doors, who, if your purse allows, may have the same home at Sitka and Samarcand.

Four strokes in duplicate on the ship's bell, then the call: "Eight bells and a-a-all's well!" Lanyard muttered: "No idea it was so late.

Then Frank ran down to the city and returned with several duplicate parts, secured at an aeroplane agency he knew of, and which would come in handy in case of an accident in that strange country, where they must depend entirely on themselves.

Pray accept a little volume, of which I have [a] duplicate, that I may return in equal number to your welcome presents.

Look at figures 1 and 2 until your eye retains the memory of them, then try to duplicate the picture every time you aim.

Immediately after guard mounting he will prepare duplicate lists of the names of all noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the guard, showing the relief and post or duties of each.

The list will be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to the sergeant of the guard as soon as completed, the other to be retained by the corporal.

The guard in charge of the prisoner during transfer will be furnished with a duplicate of this list, and will be held responsible for the delivery of all articles itemized therein with the prisoner.

" He went and got writing materials with evident reluctance, and after three or four trials, succeeded in producing a very good duplicate of ANN'S letter, bearing himself, throughout, like a man who sees his duty plainly before him, and does it without flinching.

He put the duplicate in the envelope, sealed it carefully, put the original in his pocket, and in ten minutes was abed and asleep.

By way of complement to this gorgeous centrepiece, the paper on the walls showed, in infinitely recurring duplicate, a huntress in green habit and big hat carrying on a desperate flirtation with a young man in the habiliments of the fifteenth century, while across the background a huddle of dogs pursued a mammoth deer.

And Mrs. May could imagine a motive, for in San Francisco she had been able to find a duplicate of that illustrated paper.

At 15.12 I was in another building, exchanging it for a buff form in duplicate.

I rather suspect that the drains are also in duplicate.

They're coming straight up!" He ran Mr. Bensington out into the passage, already echoing with the approaching tumult from the great staircase, locked the door behind them, and led the way into the opposite flat by means of his duplicate key.

The absent Constance was down in the town, just then bestowing favors not possible for any one else to offer so acceptably to a certain duplicate and very self-centered Steve aged eighty dayssh-sh-sh!

GRACY, LEONARD R. Duplicate contract bridge in the home and simple tournament procedure.

To begin with, the hostess passed around to the girls slips of paper and duplicate slips to the men.

A stroll through your lovely streets is a feast for the eye and a whip to the imagination that no other city in the German Empire can duplicate or approach.

Marcus had had a twin brother (who died years before), a duplicate of himself in all respects but two.

The garment of duplicity was gossamer, he felt, after all, in such atmosphere of loyalty and trust as surrounded him at Rosedale.

To send a duplex woman into the world seems to be a very unnecessary freak of Nature, seeing that there is enough of duplicity in womankind already.

" CHAPTER XIX. DUPLICITY.

Her recent questionings had prepared him for some act of duplicity, but he had by no means understood her present object, nor did she mean that he should.

My luckless Play, that sad instance of my duplicity, was never once mentioned to me afterwards, not even by any one of the children who had acted in it, and I must also tell you how considerate an old lady was at the time about our dresses.

Such a compound of shrewdness, impudence, common-sense, pretension, humility, cleverness, vulgarity, kind-heartedness, duplicity, selfishness, law- honesty, moral fraud and mother wit, mixed up with a smattering of learning and much penetration in practical things, can hardly be described, as any one of his prominent qualities is certain to be met by another quite as obvious that is almost its converse.

" His associates bowed in courteous acknowledgment of the justice of what he said, and of the loyalty of his conduct, but it was in the manner of men too long accustomed to duplicity to be easily duped.

He saw that his secret designs had been penetrated, notwithstanding all his practised duplicity and specious candor; and he submitted with that species of desperate resignation, which becomes a habit, if not a virtue, in men long accustomed to be governed despotically.

Thou hast, indeed, been a victim of their hellish duplicity, and well mayest thou say, the load was past bearing.

It is I, however,' he fiercely added, 'who must suffer the penalty of your disobedience and duplicity, and either die in a prison, or become an exile from my country.

" Convinced of the duplicity of the zamorin, De Gama made no answer to the message; but sent back all the nayres whom he had detained, desired them to tell the king he should return the others who were in custody, on receiving back his merchandize.

"You're quite right, Jim," he said, putting down his glass, "but I'mergetting oldandsomehowI am missing poor Stryker damnably!" THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES By O. Henry (1862-1910)

There was subterfuge about it, and something of duplicity.

It is wonderful how much virtue and plain-dealing a man may be guilty of with impunity, if he has no vanity, or ill-nature, or duplicity to provoke the contempt or resentment of others, and to make them impatient of the superiority he sets up over them.

Chianocquot was roused to anger by this duplicity and dispatched him.

Mr. BONAR LAW assured the House that on this occasion at least Mr. HENDERSON went purely as a Cabinet Minister, guiltless of any duplicity.

The great schools for the Moorish gentry are the chanceries of the Bashaws, where the young men learn the arts of dissimulation and duplicity in the greatest perfection, and become, very, early such great adepts in these valuable acquirements, that in my opinion they are fully able to cope with Monsieur Talleyrand, and the best politicians at the court of St. Cloud.

They possess an unbounded degree of duplicity and flattery; are perfectly strangers to the notions of truth and honour, promising a thing one day which they utterly deny the next.

The first words of the count were an abrupt accusation of duplicity in the affair of Lady Lucretia, and a challenge.

Emily, on her part, though grieved at the absence of her protector and counsellor at so interesting a crisis, was unable to suspect Mr. Tyrrel of such a degree either of malice or duplicity as could afford ground for serious alarm.

He took his color from the king he served; hence under the tortuous, deceitful Victor, his policy was marked with crude rascality and duplicity; but under the truthful, single-minded Charles Emmanuel, he became straightforward and honest.

Inheriting opposite, even conflicting, traits from father and mother, they assume, as either element predominates, diverse characters; and that which is the result of temperament (in fact, congenital inconsistency) is set down by the unthinking world as moral weakness or duplicity.

There is doubtless a dense labyrinth of duplicity in the East, and perhaps more guile in the individual Asiatic than in the individual German.

He waited impatiently for the hour when he could present himself before Marcia, own his duplicity, and take leave of her.

to the old, how estimated by BROWN his doctrine of a duplicity of the vocal elements, perstringed his strange division of the vowels "into two parts," and conversion of most of them into diphthongs; his enumeration and specification of the alphabetic elements S. S, its name and plur.