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"Then I determined to wait until the night I went back to Stowmarket, where I left a portmanteau at a small hotel" Brett knew that Winter stole a look at him, but he ignored the fact "and changed my clothes. In England, at night, a man in evening dress can enter almost any house. When I returned I carried my bag with me, as I did not know how I might wish to get away subsequently.
And how are you, Nejdanov?" He shook hands with them both. They stood motionless, not taking off their things, and with silent, half-bewildered, half-joyful emotion gazed straight in front of them. "Well? Why don't you take your things off?" Solomin asked. "Have you much luggage?" Mariana held up her little bundle. "I have only this." "I have a portmanteau and a bag, which I left in the cart.
But the ruffians were too much delighted with their prize, and too much busied in examining its contents, to enter into any detail concerning the manner in which they had acquired it. The portmanteau contained various articles of apparel, a pair of pistols, a leathern case with a few papers, and some money, etc., etc.
At that moment there was no one in it but the mother of the captain, who had been left to arrange the plunder of the preceding night, and in particular the wardrobe of a young cavalier whom they had murdered, and whose horse and portmanteau were observed just within the entrance of the cavern.
If he attends this meeting he must leave my house, and I shall see him no more." "Leave the house!" shrieked Mrs Neverbend. "Jack," said I, with the kindest voice which I was able to assume, "you will pack up your portmanteau and go to New Zealand the day after to-morrow. I have business for you to transact with Macmurdo and Brown of some importance.
Herr Lionardo meanwhile insisted that I had outgrown my clothes, and in a trice he produced another suit from his portmanteau, and I had to put on a beautiful new dress-coat and vest; very fine to see, but they were too long and too wide for me, and absolutely fluttered about me. And I also had a brand-new hat, which shone in the sunlight as if it had been smeared with fresh butter.
Besides, I shall fulfil his last wishes as a thank-offering for You. "There is still something more to tell. "On the day before his death he asked me to open an old portmanteau literally, the one thing that he possessed. He had no money left, and no clothes. In a corner of the portmanteau there was a roll of papers, tied with a piece of string and that was all.
The water-jug of the Orsova purifier was there in an invisible shape! It was night before he had packed all the documents relative to his completed contract in his portmanteau. And now for speed! He neither supped nor slept, but hastened to the Golden Lamb, where the mail-cart put up. In the bar he bought a roll and a smoked sausage, which he put in his pocket; he could eat them on the journey.
And the Barbarian, assuring him that this was a part of his deficient emotions, it was settled then and there that he should come. And that was why, on the 24th of December, the Barbarian found himself gazing hopefully on the landscape with his portmanteau at his feet, as he drove up the avenue. The ravens did NOT croak ominously from the battlements as he entered.
Let the waves bark to-night far out on "the desolate, rainy seas," the old clock is all right in the entry! Landed, and all safe at last! our much-abused, lock-broken, unhinged portmanteau unpacked and laid ignobly to rest under the household eaves! Stay a moment, let us pitch our inky passport into the fire. How it writhes and grows black in the face!
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