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"Sit him felly down, and gnaw his bitter nail." He summoned his strength, and renewed his efforts again and again, but always without effect; and being at last persuaded of his inability to aid himself, and leaned back against a bundle of skins, to counsel with his own thoughts what hope, if any, yet remained.
It is an exaggeration, but still expresses a popular feeling even in Germany itself and certainly describes an impression made on the Anglo-Saxon to say that outside this bundle of laws and regulations, which, clearly and logically paragraphed, orders to a nicety all the public, and many of the private, relations of the citizens, everything is forbidden or discouraged by authority.
He came over, at my request, to see me on affairs of the deepest importance" he waved the bundle of papers "the very deepest importance. Nicht wahr, Saupiquet?" "Bien sur," murmured Saupiquet, who evidently did not count loquacity among his vices.
But his eyes were on the grating. That evening Adelbert called to see his friend, the locksmith in the University Place. He possessed, he said, a padlock of which he had lost the key, and which, being fastened to a chest, he was unable to bring with him. A large and heavy padlock, perhaps the size of his palm. When he left, he carried with him a bundle of keys, tied in a brown paper.
Then she chided herself for her fancies! It could not be her husband. Not yet! He had gone by water, and would scarce be in Boulogne before the morning! Ah! now at last came the turn of the second-class passengers! There was a general bousculade and the human bundle began to move.
And talking of pine- apples, I suppose there never were so many pine-apples in a Train as there appear to be in this Train. Whew! The hot-house air is faint with pine-apples. Every French citizen or citizeness is carrying pine-apples home. Compact Enchantress's friend, confidante, mother, mystery, Heaven knows what, has two pine-apples in her lap, and a bundle of them under the seat.
The value of that letter may now be multiplied by ten: nor for that sum would he part with it. Thus it ran, I need not refer to it in Bundle No. 3: 'MY LORD: I drive to your church-door on the fourteenth of the month at ten A.M., to keep my appointment with Miss C. J. Kirby, if I do not blunder the initials. 'Your lordship's obedient servant, 'FLEETWOOD.
A fire is kept burning near the coffin, and small packets of cooked rice and of tobacco are placed upon it for the use of the dead man's soul. Hundreds of cigarettes are hung in bundles about the platform by people of the house, sent by them as tokens of kindly remembrance to their departed friends, who are believed to be able to recognise by smell the hands that made each bundle.
Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes, and placed all his money, which consisted of fifty dollars and a few shillings, in his girdle; with this he determined to try his fortune in the world. But first he went into the churchyard; and, by his father's grave, he offered up a prayer, and said, "Farewell."
There are five novels in this little collection, and a play, and a pamphlet of poems, and a bundle of love-letters, all signed upon their title-pages by the Ouida of the period, the great Eliza Haywood.
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