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"And when that event comes off, you'll sail past the post lengths in front of any one else." And with that Jerry took his departure. A minute later Diana heard the front door bang, and from the window watched him striding along the street. He looked back, just before he turned the corner, and waved his hand cheerily. "Nice boy!" she murmured, and then set about her unpacking in good earnest.
A great pot of mignonette perfumed the room with its sweetness. Charlie's face seemed to greet me with grave sweet smiles. I seemed to hear his voice, 'Welcome home, Ursula. 'Oh, I am so glad to be home! I said, as I went upstairs to my pretty bedroom. When I had finished my unpacking, and had had tea, I sat down in my easy-chair, with a book that Miss Gillespie had lent me.
The way that he set about cutting wood was characteristic. We were at that moment patching up and unpacking in the kitchen. Down he sat on one side, and down sat his sister on the other. Both were chewing pine-tree gum, and he, to my annoyance, accompanied that simple pleasure with profuse expectoration.
Dolly didn't know what sleeping in an open tent meant, but she smiled in response and soon the three girls went downstairs together. Mr. and Mrs. Rose were bustling around, happily engaged in unpacking and arranging books and pictures and various trifles to make the big living-room more homelike. "Looks a little bare now," said Mr.
Margaret and Dixon had been at work for two days, unpacking and arranging, but everything inside the house still looked in disorder; and outside a thick fog crept up to the very windows, and was driven in to every open door in choking white wreaths of unwholesome mist. 'Oh, Margaret! are we to live here? asked Mrs. Hale in blank dismay.
But next day there set in the pleasant tasks of unpacking, putting up tents and flies, cutting spruce for thick, soft beds, and a hundred odd jobs dear to every camper. Takahashi would not have any one help him. He dug a wide space for fires, erected a stone windbreak, and made two ovens out of baked mud, the like of which, and the cleverness of which I had never seen. He was a whirlwind for work.
All the time he was quietly taking up Ralph's clothes, which were scattered in convulsions around the room. "Shall I not unpack your box, sir?" asked the valet. Ralph stopped from sipping his tea to nod assent, and the man proceeded with the unpacking with a hand which practice had made perfect. "This is my first morning in London," observed Ralph.
Thenceforth and ever after, he was more bustling than before, both in and out of doors; hovering around the barn with its horses and wagons; ever tackling up teams and starting for the city; unpacking boxes, bales and barrels; ever in conference with the chiefs, inquiring what was needed anyone could see that almost everything was needed and showing by his exterior the busy brain that worked within.
Oscar, soberly unpacking, saw Armitage pace the hall floor for an hour, deep in thought. "Oscar," he called abruptly, "how far is it down to Storm Springs?" "A forced march, and you are there in an hour and a half, sir." April, April, Laugh, thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish, tears!
The mail-bag was filled meanwhile with nurserymen's catalogues, and the cart made incessant journeys to and from Punsey station, bringing back vast straw-enwrapped baskets and bundles and boxes beyond counting, the arrival and unpacking of which was with Edith the event of the day.
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