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They were thought so quaint and sweet unlike other people and the girl so lovely, in a sort of gossamer way. And who do you think was always about with them at Peshawar first, and then at Simla so that everybody talked? Captain Warkworth! My man believed there was an understanding between them." Julie had begun to fill the flower-glasses with water and unpack the flower-basket.
He switched the conversation on to another subject, and, after a decent interval, excused himself on the plea that he must "unpack his traps." Ann watched him stalking back to the house with gravely wistful eyes.
Say that you are expecting a trunk which a commissionaire is bringing from the station cloakroom and that you will want to unpack and pack it again in your room; and tell them that you are leaving." When alone, Lupin examined Daubrecq carefully, felt in all his pockets and appropriated everything that seemed to present any sort of interest. The Growler was the first to return.
He was clearing the table as he spoke. Now he proceeded to unpack a basket he had sent over an hour before by Griggs, and which, he observed, had not been opened. Dropping back into her big chair, she watched him with an odd look. If he had seen this look it would have sorely puzzled him, for it held not only interest but an element of apprehension, even of fear.
"It is lovely," she said, sinking into a great velvet arm-chair which Katy had drawn close to the seaward window. "I haven't seen anything so pleasant since we left home. You are a witch, Katy, and the comfort of my life. I am so glad I brought you! Now, pray go and unpack your own things, and make yourself look nice for the second breakfast. We have been a shabby set enough since we arrived.
'Yes, said Ethel, 'it is a great mess, but they are to have a regular cabinet, when Richard has time, or Aubrey has money, two equally unlikely chances. 'How much does a cabinet cost? 'Jones would make a plain deal one for about five-and-twenty shillings. 'I can't unpack mine properly, said Leonard, disconsolately. 'Ave is going to make a place for them, but Henry votes them rubbish.
Suppose we sit down here and rest a while. That walk has tired me." "There's a nice place right in front of that big stump close to the brook," and Betty pointed with her finger. "We can rest there and eat a part of our lunch." When they had reached the place Betty began to unpack the basket. First of all she spread down a white cloth, and then laid out the sandwiches and cake.
She stopped breathlessly, with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes a charming picture of youth and trustfulness. Mr. Carr had seized the opportunity to escape. "Really, now, Christie," said Jessie confidentially, when they were alone, and Christie had begun to unpack her trunk, and to mechanically put her things away, "they're not so bad." "Who?" asked Christie.
"Yes, we have some things to be thankful for, that's a fact," laughed Tad. "My idea is that the Professor, finding the men had just left here, has hurried on to overtake them. I don't think we have any reason to worry." "Then we had better stay right here," answered Ned. "Yes. That is all we can do for the present." "Think we had better unpack?" Tad considered the matter briefly.
"We will discuss that later. Unpack that bag!" she insisted. "But but there is nothing in it except samples of marble " "What!" she exclaimed nervously. "What did you say? Samples of marble?" "Marble, madam! Georgia marble!" "Oh! So you are the young man who goes about pretending to peddle Georgia marble from samples! Are you? The famous marble man I have heard of."
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