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When Lars Peter, with a frown on his face, came tramping into the tap-room, he was bustling about, whistling softly with his fat tongue between his teeth and looking rather small. "A dram and a beer," growled the rag and bone man, seating himself by the table and beginning to unpack his food. The inn-keeper came towards him with a bottle and two glasses.
The whole of her pink face, her delicate nose, her broad intelligent brow, her thick, kindly lips, beamed beneath the heavy coils of her black hair. And her brown eyes ever laughed with the joyousness which comes from health and strength. "Ah!" she exclaimed, "I have brought such a lot of things, youngsters. Just come and see them; I wouldn't unpack the basket in the kitchen."
I feel that our tour together is hardly the success I had hoped. I might have known it would not do. You want some one younger and stronger and more in sympathy with you. I am too uninteresting and old-fashioned only fit to pack and unpack your things." "Please " "My only consolation was that you found people more to your taste, and were often able to leave me at home.
Presently I went on with the purpose that had brought me upstairs; lifting a portfolio to the table and beginning to unpack the work which I had been doing in New York. As I laid out the first sheets of music, there drifted to my ears that vague sound from the lake I had heard on my first night visit here, while I stood on the tumble-down porch.
"And now," continued Miss Colton, after an interval during which, I presume, she had been waiting for some reply to her frank declaration concerning mind and appetite, "what must I do to help? Shall I unpack the basket?" I was struggling, as we say in Denboro, to get the ship under control. I had been taken aback so suddenly that I had lost steerage way.
This done, we hovered, as it were, about the table with longing eyes and itching fingers, ending by looking at each other. "I say," said Bigley; "didn't your father say that we were to unpack the box?" "Yes, and we've done it," I replied rather sulkily. "Well, oughtn't we to take the things out of the paper, and lay the paper all neatly and save the string?" "Think so?" I said longingly.
At last says he "'Young woman! have you gotten a spare nightcap? "'Missis always keeps nightcaps for gentlemen as does not like to unpack, says she, rather quick. *"Pobbies," or "pobs," child's porridge. "Again," for against. "He that is not with me, he is ageyn me." Wickliffe's Version. "'Ay, but young woman, it's one of your nightcaps I want.
"What you'd better do," he said, leaning by the mantelpiece, "is to tell the servants about this this change in your plans, to-morrow; unpack, and settle the house to stay here for the present. In the course of a couple of months it will be time enough to make up your mind about where you will live.
Why, now, look at the reason of the thing. Here's this here house " "But, Hopkins, it's decided. We're going to stay. What I want to know is this; can you come at once and help me to unpack?" "What! this very evening, as is " "Yes, now; we want to have the things about again before they come back from Guestwick."
We were now engaged in going over the great mass of material which he had collected, in the hope of finding some clue to the stolen millions which he must have amassed as a result of his villainy. The table was stacked high. A knock at the door told us that the expressman had arrived and a moment later he entered, delivering a heavy box. Kennedy signed for it and started to unpack it.
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