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'There was Ada Morton, said Maude, in a tone of conviction, 'and Anna Ross. 'Oh yes, and another book, 'Rose Turquand. It was a grown-up book, that I read once long ago, said Dolores, who had in her mother's time been allowed a pretty free range of 'book-box. "And there's 'Under the Shield, but that was a boy." 'There are lots and lots, said Dolores.
I should be glad if you would scold me again about my reading; I have nobody to tell me anything now." "I could not possibly take the responsibility," said Rupert. "If you have thrown away the key of your book-box, Miss Heron, I don't think that you will be anxious to find it again."
For the rest he followed his authorities, and has followed them now to the remote recesses of the literary lumber-room and into the twopenny book-box.
He had a savings-box he used to call it his 'book-box' and he would always drop in every spare penny he had for books till he'd got a few shillings, and then he would buy what he called 'classics. They're all so cheap, you see.
What she had done in the breakfast room she did or helped to do in the other parts of the house; she unpacked boxes and put away clothes and linen, in which Hugh was her excellent helper; she arranged her uncle's dressing-table with a scrupulosity that left nothing uncared-for; and the last thing before tea she and Hugh dived into the book-box to get out some favourite volumes to lay upon the table in the evening, that the room might not look to her uncle quite so dismally bare.
The other is not half so heavy." "Oh, it ain't the weight, miss!" returned the footman, who had not intended she should hear the remark. "I believe Mr. Cabman and myself will prove equal to the occasion." With that the book-box came down a great bump on the pavement, and presently both were in the hall, the one on the top of the other.
What she had done in the breakfast-room, she did or helped to do in the other parts of the house; she unpacked boxes and put away clothes and linen, in which Hugh was her excellent helper; she arranged her uncle's dressing-table with a scrupulosity that left nothing uncared-for; and the last thing before tea she and Hugh dived into the book-box to get out some favourite volumes to lay upon the table in the evening, that the room might not look to her uncle quite so dismally bare.
In two minutes after starting I was wet to the skin, and I thanked Providence I had left my little Dutch Horace behind me in the book-box. By three in the afternoon I was as unkempt as any tinker, my hair plastered over my eyes, and every fold of my coat running like a gutter.
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