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He had no time for dreaming now, but often when he had a brief moment to himself would take out of his pocket the piece of chalk with which he marked the trunks he carried, and sketch with it upon some rough box-lid or other the picture of a face or form which he saw in his fancy; so that after a time he was known among the men as "the artist feller," and grew to have quite a little reputation among them.
Then she raised the lid noiselessly, and there lay the ring in a little square compartment of the tray. Next to it, in the corner square, lay the gold dollar. Comfort took the ring out, shut the box-lid down, turned the key, and fled.
Amid its emptiness of dismantled shelves and walls and floor, only the tiny ancestress still hung in her place, last token of the home that had been. This miniature, tacked against the despoiled boards, and its descendant, the angry girl with her hand on an open box-lid, made a sort of couple in the loneliness: she on the wall sweet and serene, she by the box sweet and stormy.
As the brave little tattered man stood there upon the box-lid, springing, and sputtering, and waving his one arm, his wife looked up at him with a smile, as if she thought him "the greatest wight on ground." There was a little curly-headed child standing by, quietly taking in all that was going on. I laid my hand upon her head; and asked her what her name was.
He had yellow and withered cheeks, black hair with a dash of white above the ears, and a mustache whose thickest part curved over his mouth like a black lacquer box-lid, while its long ends, stiff as thorns of a thorn-tree, projected on either side far beyond his face. "His name is Balm de Brézé, vicomte. He is by birth a Belgian, I think; the title, however, is French.
It crossed Ruth's mind as she found the key, how, a year ago, when the interior of this box was shown to Dave Wardle by his country Granny, his delight in it, and its smell of otto of roses that never failed, had stirred forgotten memories; and this recollection, with the mystery of that vanished mother still on earth close at hand, there in the room! made her almost dread to raise the box-lid.
"'Oh, it's it's only, said I, seeking for a synonyme, 'only chloride of sodium! "'Chloride of sodium! what do you do with it? "'Eat it with onions, said I, boldly: 'it's a chemical substance, but I believe it is found in some plants. "'Let me taste it, said he, stretching out an onion. "I handed him the box-lid, which still contained a portion of its contents.
The morsel of burnt child, lying in another room, so patiently, in bed, wrapped in lint, and looking steadfastly at us with his bright quiet eyes when we spoke to him kindly, looked as if the knowledge of these things, and of all the tender things there are to think about, might have been in his mind as if he thought, with us, that there was a fellow-feeling in the pauper nurses which appeared to make them more kind to their charges than the race of common nurses in the hospitals as if he mused upon the Future of some older children lying around him in the same place, and thought it best, perhaps, all things considered, that he should die as if he knew, without fear, of those many coffins, made and unmade, piled up in the store below and of his unknown friend, 'the dropped child, calm upon the box-lid covered with a cloth.
"I'll close't up at ance," said Cosmo. In a few minutes he had screwed a box-lid over the hole in the partition, and shut the door of the closet. "Noo," he said, "I'll gang an' set up the door on the ither side." Before he went however, he told his father what he had been thinking of, saying, if he approved and was well enough, he should like to go the next day.
At the discovery of each new treasure, Freckles shouted: "Will you be looking at this, now?" Mrs. Duncan cried: "Weel, I be drawed on!" The eldest boy turned a somersault for every extra, while the baby, trying to follow his example, bunched over in a sidewise sprawl and cut his foot on the axe with which his mother had prized up the box-lid. That sobered them, they carried the books indoors. Mrs.
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