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And in the kitchen sat Sam Adams himself, inkhorn and papers before him.

The papers and inkhorn, pushed carelessly aside on one of the plain wooden window-seats, had been placed there by him.

The clerk, who had taken his seat at the corner of the table and laid some papers before him, dipped his pen in the inkhorn, which he carried at his button-hole.

He moves with dignity and deliberation, his "writer's inkhorn" pendent from his girdle, and his physiognomy has been trained to that reticent, semi-mysterious expression common to successful solicitors in England.

Purses, daggers, keys, penners and inkhorns, beads and even books, dangled from girdles in the 15th and early 16th centuries.