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He had a caterer and a great spread. Tea and sandwiches; all kinds of cakes, candies a huge box for each of us to carry home; and the most beautiful ice-cream with nuts in it. Um! I can taste it yet. Oh, but it was larky!" "It must have been," Blue Bonnet admitted. "This time, Billy says, it is to be very select. What he calls a close corporation! Just you and Annabel and I, and Mrs. White.
The marines had been ordered by the Captain to gradually surround the temple, to guard every entrance that could be discovered, and to force their way in if anything of a suspicious nature occurred. Ned did not know the men as well as he knew the Captain, therefore he asked: "The men will obey your orders to the letter? You see, we are in a box here!" "They will obey," said the officer.
She took the coin and wrapped it in a piece of linen, and laid it at the bottom of her box, bidding the infant observe she could be at times as resolute as granny herself. Catherine told Eli of Margaret's foolish pride, and how she had baffled it. Eli said Margaret was right, and she was wrong. Catherine tossed her head. Eli pondered. Margaret was not without domestic anxieties.
"We don't know, now, that he did have them when he entered the hotel at Hull! He mayn't have had. Miss Lennard we'll drop the professional name and turn to the real one," he said, with a bow to the prima donna "Miss Lennard here thinks she had her jewels in her little box when she entered the Hull hotel, and also when she came to this hotel, here in Edinburgh, but "
And she actually forgot all about the birthday itself; all her mind being set on the Henderson box, so soon to sail off over the sea. And Mother Fisher would look over at her absorbed face, and smile, to watch her in the shops, picking out things for the Henderson boys; and old Mr.
It was a small metal chest, evidently of very considerable weight, and it stood immediately outside the door of Number 14a. "That was what he came for, sir! That was what he came for! You were too quick for him!" Beeton stood behind us, his horror-bright eyes fixed upon the box. "Eh?" rapped Smith, turning upon him.
"This camping in the woods would be quite nice if one could prowl round with the rifle instead of pounding the drill," he said, and then paused to glance ruefully at one of his battered hands. "Anyway, I don't know that I shouldn't just as soon do that as to hold it." "Sorry," said Devine. "Still, you've done some shooting. We brought up a box of cartridges and now we haven't one.
Indeed Flossie and Freddie looked from the stage to the box and from the box back to the stage again so often that their mother said they would have stiff necks. However, they didn't have, which only goes to show that children's necks can stand a great deal of twisting and turning without getting tired. So the play went on, and very pretty it was. Cinderella tried on the glass slipper.
"The stain must have come from the point of the pin, and when the pin was drawn out of the box, not when it was thrust into it. In the latter case the pin point would have been cleansed before passing through the lining, and the stain would have been on the outside rather than the inside." "Surely."
Jamie had come whistling in a very pronounced manner up to the house that might have been because he had been drinking, and then again, it might not and then there was his quarrel with Andrew! Was that a planned affair, in order to give the other man time to carry off the box?
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