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Sometimes she grasps the lamp or paper in a different way, sometimes the packing itself does not run smoothly, sometimes she feels fresher, sometimes less in the mood for the work, and there is always something to observe and something to think about. This was the trend which I usually found.
She seemed quite willing." "You read them all, of course, before delivering them?" "Of course. There was nothing in them except instructions about plowing, fruit picking, and packing, and various bucolic matters." "Oh! Nothing to be read between the lines? No cipher? No invisible ink? No tricks of any sort?" "Not one. I had a detective here.
"Oh, no; it was scarcely likely that he should tell me." Very little more was said upon the subject just then. At nine o'clock Mr. Dunbar left the room to see to the packing of his things, at a little before ten the three gentlemen drove away from the George Hotel, on their way to the station. They reached the station at five minutes past ten; the train was not due until a quarter past. Mr.
Philip Gouverneur, passing the Graydon on his return from a dinner-party, thought to make a farewell call on Millard. He encountered Charley in the elevator, just coming home from an evening with Phillida, his face aglow with pleasure. "Fancied I should find you packing," Philip said. "I thought as you would cross the Alps for the first time I'd come and give you a few points.
There were no labels on the bottles; the little leaden capsules placed over the corks alone bore an inscription, and they were coated with a kind of ceruse, doubtless to ensure preservation. Then came two other rooms which formed regular packing shops, with carpenters' benches, tools, and heaps of shavings.
"Somebody thinks this is April-fool Day, I guess." "Have patience for a leetle minute, please," said the man, as he cast away the packing bit by bit. The children watched him with eager interest. By and by he took out a little bunch of lilies of the valley, which he handed to Abby with a low bow. Next he came to something shrouded in fold after fold of tissue-paper.
I began looking over things preparatory to packing, but did not get through much for two visitors appeared, Martha Green with eggs and Ruth to have her finger poulticed. The four from the ketch had tea with us. Friday, November 6. Yesterday we had quite a home-like scene afternoon tea in the garden at the architect's suggestion.
The twins had long left the subject of the embargo on Chetworth, and were wrangling and chaffing over the details of Desmond's packing, when there was a knock at the door. Pamela stiffened at once. 'Come in! Miss Bremerton entered. 'Are you very busy? 'Not at all! said Desmond politely, scurrying with his best Eton manners to find a chair for the newcomer.
The old man pleaded to stay in his home until the new year, but Thyrsis was obdurate, allowing him only a week in which to get himself and his belongings to another place. And meantime he and Corydon were packing up. They drove to another "vandew", and purchased more odds and ends of household stuff; and Thyrsis had his little study loaded upon a wagon, and taken to the new place.
Well; it was certainly better to have partridges from Turnover than accusations of immorality and infidelity. The Vicar so declared at once, but his wife would not at first agree with him. "I really should have such pleasure in packing them up and sending them back," said she. "Indeed, you shall do nothing of the kind."
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