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Each of us will have a good, big, strong carpet-bag, and nothing more. You can cram them as full as you choose, but what you can't git in has got to be left at home." There could be no mistake as to Jeff's earnestness, and neither mother attempted to gainsay his words.
She would wait till they had passed before she looked over the fence. They were two men coming, slowly, and in earnest conversation upon some deeply interesting theme. Each carried a heavy carpet-bag, and they walked wearily, as if their business were nearly over for the day and they were coming to a place of rest.
For Captain Huger was as tender and as kind to him as his own dear father. God bless him for it! The enemy's ships were sailing up; so he threw a few articles in a carpet-bag and started off for Richmond, Corinth, anywhere, to fight. Sick, weak, hardly able to stand, he went off, two weeks ago yesterday. We know not where, and we have never heard from him since.
"But, bless my life, I am keeping you standing here, carpet-bag in hand, all this time! Have you engaged your room?" "No; they say the house is full." "Not quite! Mine is a double-bedded chamber. You shall share it with me, if you like. What do you say?" "Thank you, I should like it very much." "Come in, then, and have a wash and a change of clothes; after which we will have supper.
The clock struck ten, and we were still struggling with unabated ardor to compress Lorana Briggs's shawl, and the flat packages from Burt's, into the largest carpet-bag, that there might be room for the seventeen letters on top of the minister's luggage, inside the sanctuary of his silk gown.
The lady stopped and started, and laid down her book, at the apparition of the tall traveller with the cigar and the carpet-bag. He blushed, he flung the cigar into the passage: he took off his hat, and dropped that too, and going up to the Major, seized that old gentleman's hand, and asked questions about Arthur.
The ache is all gone from my head, charmed away by your hands. Now, come and sit by me again, and tell me all you know of yourself before Harold found you. Where did you live? What was your mother's name? Try and recall all you can. Jerry, however, could tell him very little besides the Tramp House, and the carpet-bag, and Harold letting her fall in the snow.
We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf.
I feel in my pockets to see if the key which unlocks the carpet-bag containing my revolvers is all right for I had rather brilliantly locked my deadly weapons up in that article, which was strapped with the other baggage to the rack behind.
Hatchie was persuaded that this carpet-bag must contain some evidence which would be of service to his mistress, in case Uncle Nathan and the will should not come to light. There were two acts to the drama he intended to perform on the present occasion; the first, alone with the attorney, and the last, in the presence of witnesses.
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