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Updated: June 10, 2025
The best time of day was the dinner hour. He would escape and get right away from the horde of artisans crowding round the little tables on the pavement and into the wineshops of the district, and limp along to the square hard by: and there he would sit astride a bench under a spreading chestnut-tree, near a bronze dancing faun with grapes in his hands, and untie his brown-paper parcel of bread and meat, and munch it slowly, surrounded by a little crowd of sparrows.
The mesas radiated keen dry heat. Bartley turned and crossed over to the station. He blinked the effects of the white light from his eyes as he entered the telegraph office. The operator, in shirt-sleeves, and smoking a brown-paper cigarette, nodded and handed Bartley a service message stating that his effects would be carried to Los Angeles and held for further orders.
"It is much more likely to have been caused by such an implement as this than by a salmon gaff." Mr. Lindsey reached out his hand for the ice-ax, and, repossessing himself of it, passed it and its brown-paper wrapping to me. "Thank you, doctor," he said; "that's all I wanted to know." He turned to the bench.
The brown-paper parcel contained likewise a number of other papers; it contained the Major's notes for a book he was writing on the principal county families in Buckinghamshire.
Where are they?" exclaimed the colonel; and Miller went to the rear of the hall, returning the next moment with a fair-sized, brown-paper parcel in his hand. It obviously contained the crocodile-hide dressing-bag, which had been Bridget's birthday present; the handle, indeed, projected for convenience of transport.
And it was as I had suspected. There was the mess-jacket still on its hanger. The hound hadn't packed it. Well, as anybody at the Drones will tell you, Bertram Wooster is a pretty hard chap to outgeneral. I shoved the thing in a brown-paper parcel and put it in the back of the car, and it was on a chair in the hall now.
They are in a brown-paper parcel, which also contains sundry papers and poems, sermons, some few Epic poems, one about Cain and Abel, which came from Poole, etc., and also your tragedy; with one or two small German books, and that drama in which Got-fader performs. Tertio: a small oblong box containing all your letters, collected from all your waste papers, and which fill the said little box.
I therefore requested my informant to let me have these. He has done this, and this parcel," here he took up a brown-paper parcel from the seat beside him "containing the articles I have mentioned, was placed in my hands just as I came to this meeting.
And brother having to smoke brown-paper cigarettes, which he hated like poison and had trouble in rolling! "Mother could roll 'em, all right do it with one hand. And she urged sister to; but sister rebelled for once. The old lady admitted this was due to a fault in her early training.
As I laid all of a heap in our kitchen, plastered all over, you might have thought I was a large brown-paper parcel, chock full of nothing but groans. Did I groan loud, Wackford, or did I groan soft? asked Mr Squeers, appealing to his son. 'Loud, replied Wackford. 'Was the boys sorry to see me in such a dreadful condition, Wackford, or was they glad? asked Mr Squeers, in a sentimental manner.
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