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Richards being present, opened the bandbox, examined and checked off the contents with one of Messrs. King's head clerks, and found every single item of his missing securities, stocks, bonds, mortgages, accounts, bank books, wills, everything. A most remarkable thing! The parties could hardly believe their eyes." Mr.
"We have it from indisputable authority," says The Miner's Light of Brandy Gap, "that when our esteemed fellow-citizen Hank Mulligan and twenty gallant shots and riders like himself went in a body to General at the cantonment and offered their services as volunteers against the Sioux now devastating the homesteads and settlements of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone valleys, they were treated with haughty and contemptuous refusal by that bandbox caricature of a soldier and threatened with arrest if they did not quit the camp.
It is very uncommon, and indurates very soon, so we had better make the most of our opportunity," said the American lady, who had entered as resplendent as before, though in so different a style that Rosamond wondered how such a wardrobe could be carried about the world; and the sporting friend muttered, "Stunning! she has been making kickshaws all day, and looks as if she came out of a bandbox!
"But why did you say you are acting manager? I only appointed Mr. Ferrars." Oily Dave contracted his features into an unpleasant grin. "It takes them as knows these waters to understand the fishing of them, sir, and your grand drawing-room, bandbox manager would have been pretty hard put to it many a time to know what to do for the best, if it hadn't been for Oily Dave, which is me."
She stared fixedly at the old lady, having deliberately left her own seat and planted herself on the one opposite. "Vinegar will do it," she said. "What are you talking about, child?" asked Mrs. Hungerford. "You are so red such a deep red, I mean much the same as chocolate. Vinegar will do it. Take three small glasses a day, and pay your Betty with vulgar sort of things out of an old bandbox."
Do you understand what it is to be all curiosity so that your heart beats too quick and you gets fidgety? Well, I was in that sort of state, and I said to myself, 'I will know. So I went into your room and poked about. I looked under the bed, and there was an old bandbox where you kept your summer hat afore Aunt Sophy came; and I pulled it out and opened it, and, oh!
Or again, some one who holds the key to his mistake comes in from the world he has left, and considers considers, you understand! whether to leave him to work out his servitude, or, mercifully if he is not altogether blind permit him the means of escape to his old world, to the life to which he was born away from the bandbox and all therein. . . . I hope I have not tired you I am sure I have."
'Now, said she, 'light my little lantern, and see me into my bandbox by the garden path'; for there was a communication between our cottages in that direction.
But if you don't know what it means, I do. You haven't been in that shop long, have you?" "Not quite a month, ma'am." "I thought so!" She said no more, and Clare followed in silence, wondering not a little. When they reached the station, she took the bandbox, and looked at the boy. He returned her gaze, his gray eyes wondering.
She rewarded her cavalier with a smile, the cheery glow of which was seen reflected on his own face as he reentered the vehicle. The girl then turned towards the House of the Seven Gables, to the door of which, meanwhile, not the shop-door, but the antique portal, the omnibus-man had carried a light trunk and a bandbox.
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