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Updated: May 28, 2025
Behold, on one side, an urchin sitting astonished up to his armpits in a bandbox through which he has just crashed and an irate parent trying to drag him out; while, on your other side, stands a grief-stricken mother trying to say farewell to a son whose hollow cheeks, glittering eyes, and short cough give little hope of a meeting again on this side the grave.
He gives himself the delights of introspection, and wishes he were a child again yes, indeed it is so, dear Miss Devlin." Ruth sat regarding her, her deep eyes glowing. Mrs. Falchion continued: "In short, he finds the bandbox, as you call it, suited to his renunciations. Its simplicities, which he thinks is regeneration, are only new sensations.
I heard Eliza telling another girl about it, under my window; and she seemed to think that the poor woman's reluctance to be searched arose from the poorness of her wardrobe and of the contents of her bandbox. At parting, Eliza said to the girl, "What do you think I heard somebody say about you?
Closing the door tightly after them to confine the flames, where confinement, except for the briefest period, among matter so combustible, and partitions scarcely more formidable than those of a paper bandbox, was clearly impossible, they threw the burning engineer into our arms, and themselves took the management of the craft.
In short, you want a level-headed clergyman about thirty-five years old who will mind his own business" The smiles on the faces of the vestry deepened. The ability to put a matter thus humorously was a part of Nelson Langmaid's power with men and juries. "I venture to add another qualification," he continued, "and that is virility. We don't want a bandbox rector.
But in one of them lay a plaid shawl and a carpet bag, and in the other that peculiar and nearly obsolete piece of feminine property, a paper bandbox, tied about with tape. Packed up for a journey? Reader, Miss Sampson was always packed up. She was that much-enduring, all-foregoing creature, a professional nurse.
Or again, some one who holds the key to his mistake comes in from the world he has left, and considers considers, you understand! whether to leave him to work out his servitude, or, mercifully if he is not altogether blind permit him the means of escape to his old world, to the life to which he was born away from the bandbox and all therein.... I hope I have not tired you I am sure I have."
If I were writing a novel, instead of a veracious chronicle, I should not have introduced it, for it is an anachronism. But I was powerless, as a mere narrator, to prevent the woman coming aboard with her bandbox.
It was nine when Miss Wimple released from its old-fashioned bandbox as naturally as if it had been all along agreed upon between them, and not, as was truly the case, utterly forgotten until then her well-saved and but little used bonnet of black straw, and put it on Madeline's head, kissing her, as a mother does her child, as she tied the bow under her chin; and she took from the bed the faithful shawl, and drew it snugly, tenderly, around Madeline's shoulders, Madeline only blushing; to resist, to remonstrate, she well knew, had been in vain.
As soon as all had ate, and the elder ones paid, the carriage was ordered; and after some contrivance, the whole party, with all their boxes, work-bags, and parcels, and the unwelcome addition of Kitty's and Lydia's purchases, were seated in it. "How nicely we are all crammed in," cried Lydia. "I am glad I bought my bonnet, if it is only for the fun of having another bandbox!
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