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They pitched the waves right over our bulwarks, and now and then dashed a bucketful of water down the cabin skylight, swamping the ladies' cabin, and setting scores of bandboxes afloat. Not that there was the least actual danger; but Mrs. would not be persuaded that we were not on the brink of destruction, and wrote to friends at home a voluminous account of her feelings.
She was left an orphan long since, with a brother and sister, and lives with an old grandmother, who has "brought them up to poverty," as she always calls it. However, Paulette now helps her to make bandboxes, her little sister Perrine begins to use the needle, and her brother Henry is apprentice to a printer.
What reason have they when they dress themselves up with bandboxes on their sconces? Just simply the old reason 'I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; why I cannot tell." "May I not see her myself, Miss Stanbury?" "I can't make her come down-stairs to you. I've been at her the whole morning, Mr. Gibson. Ever since daylight, pretty nearly.
On top of the vehicle were several light articles of female appliances, in the shape of bandboxes, bags, &c., the trunks having previously arrived in a cart. Well might that over-driven gray horse appear sorrowful, and travel with a lowered head.
There were but three persons in the car; a merchant, deep in the income list of the "Traveller," an old lady with two bandboxes, a man in the corner with his hat pulled over his eyes. Tommy opened the door, peeped in, hesitated, looked into another car, came back, gave his little fiddle a shove on his shoulder, and walked in. "Hi! Little Tommy Tucker Plays for his supper,"
There was a general rush to the little room with the shelves and bandboxes, where church books were procured, and great-coats and tight kid gloves put on. When they were almost ready the Doctor came in, wearing his blandest and most paternal expression. "A it's a collection Sunday to-day, boys," he said. "Have you all got your threepenny-bits ready?
Many are the good stories told of judicial wigs, and amongst the best of them, is the anecdote which that malicious talker Samuel Rogers delighted to tell at Edward Law's expense. He replied that he had no objection provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.
Hatboxes, bandboxes, and valises burst like a meteoric shower out of a crater. "A moi, a moi!" was the cry, from old men, young women, soldiers, shopkeepers, and pretres, scuffling and shoving together. Careless at once of grammar and of grace, I pulled and shouted with the best, till at length our plunder was caught, corded and poised on an herculean neck.
Elizabeth Eliza and Ann Maria went on as rival hostesses, trying to draw Solomon John, Agamemnon, and John Osborne into their several inns. The little boys carried valises, hand-bags, umbrellas, and bandboxes. Bandbox after bandbox appeared, and when Agamemnon sat down upon his the applause was immense. At last the curtain fell.
A dozen or more of black, straight-backed chairs of the best and oldest pattern were mingled with a mass of other ancient relics bandboxes, bird-cages, queer-shaped pots and utensils, trenchers, heaps of old periodicals, boxes of trinkets, wooden chests of mystery a New England garret collection such as we had read of, but never seen, the accumulation of a century and a half of time and change.
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