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John, who acted as undertaker, prepared a candle-box for him and I believe assumed a professional decorum; but there may have been the usual levity underneath, for I heard that he remarked in the kitchen that it was the "driest wake he ever attended." Everybody, however, felt a fondness for Calvin, and regarded him with a certain respect.
Thorold, sitting down opposite me on a candle-box "how do you think you would like camp life?" "The tents are too close together," I said. He laughed, with a good deal of amusement. "That will do!" he said. "You begin by knocking the camp to pieces." "But it is beautiful," I went on. "And not comfortable. Well, it is pretty comfortable," he said.
She come to Jim in a candle-box with all the proper papers lawful child o' some couple in Lunnon somewheres mother dead, father drinkin'. And there was that Lunnon society's five shillin's a week for her. Jim's mother she wouldn't despise week-end money, but I never heard Jim was much of a muck-grubber.
The afternoon before Christmas she took it from the candle-box, and smoothed it out upon the cover. It had some writing upon one side. Elsie thought it was very pretty writing it had so many flourishes. Elsie could not read it, of course, but she hoped Miss Amanda would like it. How should she give it to her?
"A stranger stopped him asked him something or other and another guy flattened him from behind. That's all he remembers. When he came to he found he'd been frisked. He was still dippy when he got home, so I put him to bed. He got up and moved around a bit this morning, but he's wrong in his head." Phillips seated himself upon a candle-box. "Robbed!" he exclaimed, weakly. "Broke again! Gee!
Of course, I'll be investin'; and a man may as well do things with his eyes open may as well examine both sides o' the candle-box, you know. You may go, sir." "Well," thought the stranger to himself, as he literally went on his way rejoicing toward Birney's office, "no man in this life should ever yield to despair.
He reposed in a candle-box, lined about the edge with evergreen, and at his head stood a little wine-glass with flowers. He lay with his head tucked down in his arms, a favourite position of his before the fire, as if asleep in the comfort of his soft and exquisite fur. It was the involuntary exclamation of those who saw him, "How natural he looks!" As for myself, I said nothing.
On this a candle-box was placed, and within it, swathed in staring red flannel, lay the last arrival at Roaring Camp. Beside the candle-box was placed a hat. Its use was soon indicated. "Gentlemen," said Stumpy, with a singular mixture of authority and EX OFFICIO complacency, "gentlemen will please pass in at the front door, round the table, and out at the back door.
To picket our horses, collect wood for a fire, hang over our teakettles, and pitch our little cotton tent, was the work of only a few moments, and we were soon lying at full length upon our warm bearskins, around our towel-covered candle-box, drinking hot tea, discussing Kamchatka, and watching the rosy flush of sunset as it slowly faded over the western mountains.
While we had been talking with Andrei, Viushin had built a fire and prepared breakfast, and just as the sun peered into the valley we sat down on bearskins around our little candle-box and ate some "selánka," or sour soup, upon which Viushin particularly prided himself, and drank tumbler after tumbler of steaming tea.
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