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Or he would count again and again the bars of gold which were kept in a big oak chest with a great iron lock in the lid, and sometimes he would carry a boxful of gold dust from the dark corner where it lay, and would look at the shining heap by the light that came from a tiny window. To his greedy eyes there never seemed to be half enough; he was quite discontented.
The fact, though of considerable interest to the police, was not chronicled in any newspaper, but about the same time a picturesque little paragraph went the round of the press concerning a small boxful of sovereigns which had been anonymously forwarded to the Governors of the Foundling Hospital. Meanwhile Mrs.
"And there's a boxful upstairs, but I think I like the white muslins best, they look so pretty when they are clean, and you don't have to be so careful." "Do you ever get scolded when accidents happen?" "Well, not much. Cousin Eunice is so sweet. Cousin Elizabeth was more particular." "And Miss Winn?" "Oh, my dear Rachel loves me too much," the child said laughingly.
What, then, could be said for her singing Italian songs, and getting all the newest from Vauxhall in London, a boxful at a time, with new novel-books, and trinkum-trankum flowers and feathers, and sweetmeats, sent to her by a lady of the blood royal of Paris?
The governor had promised to send them down new furs, and a great boxful of novels! He did not apprise them that he meant to sell their horses. Their horses were his! He was an indulgent father and did not stint them, but he was not going to ask their leave! At the same time he had not the courage to tell them.
What on earth is Hogan about? and there, see, just at the door, a boxful of nails! I'd nail his ear to the wall if he were mine, and Aunt Rebecca glanced sharply through the glass, this way and that, for the offending gardener, who, happily, did not appear.
The cushion is to make it soft and prevent the hard wood of the box hurting their heads, and they carry a huge boxful in this way more easily than you or I would carry a book.
The powder and fulminating composition being always in contact in every cartridge, it is obvious that a chance shot may explode the whole boxful; and we have proved by experiment that this is not an imaginary danger.
"And he never shall see them!" announced Mrs. Pedders emphatic. "H-m-m-m!" says I. "A whole boxful that nobody's opened? But suppose now that some of 'em wa'n't say, why not take a look at the lot, just the outsides?" Neither Mrs. Pedders nor Luella took kind to that proposition; but somehow I had a vague hunch it ought to be done. I couldn't say exactly why, either.
Also she threw things at him to an enormous extent in her resolve to keep things lively in spite of Wimblehurst; sponges out of stock she threw, cushions, balls of paper, clean washing, bread; and once up the yard when they thought that I and the errand boy and the diminutive maid of all work were safely out of the way, she smashed a boxful of eight-ounce bottles I had left to drain, assaulting my uncle with a new soft broom.
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