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Haxton, apparently giving no heed to Royson, glanced listlessly at the wrappers and postmark. The task seemed to prove uninteresting. Soon she selected a periodical, and was about to open It when a remark from Irene caught her ear.
Maginnis on the street, and been ordered to take back the parcel to Mr. Varney. "All right, McTosh," said Varney. He broke the string with some curiosity and pulled off the wrappers. Within was nothing but a copy of a current literary monthly. A present of a magazine from Peter! This was a delicate apology for his remissness, indeed.
The relatives were all attired in simple but becoming mourning garments, made from wood-fibre, consisting of tunics, and wrappers around the loins, which as regards the women covered practically the whole body, and on their heads they wore pointed hats of the same material. In the first prahu the little coffin was placed, and immediately behind it the mother lay with face down.
Occasionally a band of young boys hustle their way through the crowd; but a New York crowd seems always to be mindful of the days when we were all of us boys. It is a reading public. The men carry newspapers whose flaring headlines of red and green give a touch of almost Italian colour. The women carry cloth-bound novels in paper wrappers.
The great Siberian dog, who was lying close to the door, had already twice uttered a deep growl, and turned his head towards the window but without giving any further affect to this hostile manifestation. The two sisters, half recumbent in their bed, were clad in long white wrappers, buttoned at the neck and wrists.
They wear the cheapest clothes thin calico wrappers. They take their husbands' thin pay-envelopes, and manage the finances. They stint and save they buy one carrot at a time, one egg. When rent-week comes and it comes twice a month they cut the food by half to pay for housing. They are underfed, they are denied everything but toil save love. Child after child they bear.
Up under the roof, posting ledgers, auditing accounts, attending to all the complex bookkeeping of a great metropolitan department store, women. Behind most of the counters on all the floors between, women. At every cashier's desk, at the wrappers' desks, running back and forth with parcels and change, short-skirted women.
And, indeed, there were times when Fanny in those days did blame Andrew, but there was some excuse for her. She blamed him when her own back was filling her very soul with the weariness of its ache as she bent over the seams of those grinding wrappers, and when her heart was sore over doubt of Ellen's future.
But she was surprised not to see the thick blue paper wrappers; there was nothing there but bulky manuscripts, the doctor's completed but unpublished works, works of inestimable value, all his researches, all his discoveries, the monument of his future fame, which he had left in Ramond's charge.
"Tell ye what, Sir take my advice your honour knows I be no fool throw off them ere wrappers; let me put on scrap of plaister pitch phials to devil order out horses to-morrow, and when you've been in the air half an hour, won't know yourself again!" "Bunting! the horses out to-morrow? faith, I don't think I could walk across the room." "Just try, your honour." "Ah!
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