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"But you'll ask about my mysterious dame in the new bonnet and velvet mantle; she was sitting on a stool at the counter, not buying, but evidently selling a quantity of stones and trinkets which she had in a card-box, and the man was picking them up one by one, and, I suppose, valuing them.
A white whirl a mighty rush a tumult of roaring waters the ice walls pitched down the canoe was caught tossed up nipped crushed like a card-box and we four flung on the drenching ice-pans to a roll of the seas like to sweep us under, with a footing slippery as glass. "Keep hold of Gillam! Lock hands!" came a clarion voice through the storm. "Don't fear, men! There is no danger!
The little card-box and the scoring-book of the players, the deck chair and rugs of the inveterate reader, the hurried tread and irascible eye of the carnivorous passenger, and the everlasting pipe of the ocean talker, who feels time before him and the world at his feet wherein to spin yarns has any one not seen them?
Sylvia had never noticed that double-barreled gun before; and she wondered whether it had been brought into the room that morning. She watched Captain Barstow bustle into the hall and back again. Finally he pounced upon an oblong card-box which lay on the top of a low book-case. He removed the lid and pulled out a cartridge. "Hullo!" said he. "No. 6. The very thing!
"At the first moment I was daunted. Of my four limbs, I had now only my right hand, and even that had lost its strength; so it was necessary to find some gentlemanly occupation for it. After trying a little of everything, I fell upon card-box making, and here I am at cases for the lace and buttons of the national guard; it is work of little profit, but it is within the capacity of all.
"At the first moment I was daunted. Of my four limbs, I had now only my right hand, and even that had lost its strength; so it was necessary to find some gentlemanly occupation for it. After trying a little of everything, I fell upon card-box making, and here I am at cases for the lace and buttons of the national guard; it is work of little profit, but it is within the capacity of all.
Where can she be? what has become of her?" said the lapidary, taking from the bench a card-box filled with cotton, in which he arranged the jewels. "But never mind that; in prison I shall have plenty of time for thinking." "Come, pack up the duds to take with you, and make haste and dress yourself."
Indeed, the incident was forgotten before the unfortunate man had gone ten paces from The Polka, for then it was that Trinidad suddenly rose in his seat, lunged across the table for The Sidney Duck's card-box, and cried out angrily: "You're cheatin'! That ain't a square deal! You're a cheat!" In a moment the place was in an uproar.
At last, Maltravers rose to depart. "Will you not dine with us to-day?" said the hospitable rector. "Many thanks, no; I have much business to attend to at home for some days to come." "Kiss Sophy, Mr. Ernest, Sophy very good girl to-day. Let the pretty butterfly go, because Evy said it was cruel to put it in a card-box; kiss Sophy." "God bless you, Miss Cameron," he said, and his lip quivered.
At last, Maltravers rose to depart. "Will you not dine with us to-day?" said the hospitable rector. "Many thanks, no; I have much business to attend to at home for some days to come." "Kiss Sophy, Mr. Ernest, Sophy very good girl to-day. Let the pretty butterfly go, because Evy said it was cruel to put it in a card-box; kiss Sophy." "God bless you, Miss Cameron," he said, and his lip quivered.
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