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Updated: June 15, 2025
To the unlearned, it may be necessary to state that translation is the act of converting old boots into new ones, and is done with thin strips of varnished leather, and plenty of wax and large nails. There are carpenters, whose ingenuity is confined to the manufacture of money-boxes, cigar-cases, and children's stools.
He knew, too, all the little niceties of social life which arm to give to his hostess in escorting her out to dinner; on which side of a hansom to place a lady; the proper hours for calling; the correct thing in canes, umbrellas, stick-pins and cigar-cases; the way to balance a cup of afternoon tea on one knee while he toyed with a lettuce sandwich teetering on the other all the delicate observances so vital to the initiated and so unimportant to the untutored and ignorant.
Several elongated cigar-cases were thrust forward, and then it was seen that the attire of the gallant youngsters was in disorder. 'Did you hunt her to earth? they were asked. The reply trenched on philosophy; and consisted in an inquiry as to who cared for the whole basketful of the like description of damsels, being implied. Immoderate and uproarious laughter burst around them.
He conjured up visions of the useless things he had given and received on previous occasions, and an inventory of his personal receipts at the four celebrations leading up to the present disclosed the fact that he was long on match-boxes, cigar-cases, and smoking-jackets, the last every one of them too small, with an appalling supply of knitted and crocheted objects, the gifts of his children, in reserve.
Roscorla and one of his venerable companions went into the hall to get their cigar-cases from their top-coat pockets. This elderly gentleman had been the governor of an island in the Pacific: he had now been resident for many years in England.
How he rose to the situation, and burnt his cigar-cases, and gave away his pistols, and pondered on the constitutional authority of the sixth, and his new duties to the Doctor, and the fifth form, and the fags! Ay, and no fellow ever acted up to them better, though he was always a people's man for the fags, and against constituted authorities. He couldn't help that, you know.
His lordship hesitated in his selection from these beauties. What else should they do but pursue an object so charming? Everybody hunted him. The other young ladies, whom we need not mention, languished after him still more longingly. He had little notes from these; presents of purses worked by them, and cigar-cases embroidered with his coronet.
"No," replied Beauchamp, laughing; "I spell it with an 'L, like other people; but that cigar-case was neither embroidered nor made for me." "I see," rejoined Cottrell: "you have been annexing a friend's property. I regret to see the notorious laxity of principle on the subject of umbrellas is extending to cigar-cases." "Wrong again," replied Beauchamp.
"And that is in your idea that Henson changed those cigar-cases after Miss Gates laid your votive offering on Steel's doorstep." "How else could it be done?" Chris said. "My dear, the thing is quite obvious. You have already told me that Henson was quite aware what you were going to do at least that he knew you were going to consult Steel.
The hats and cigar-cases of Manilla are also of a beautiful style of manufacture. Although I might have written a more interesting account of the country, I prefer giving this brief extract from my journal, that I may have more space to narrate the numerous adventures through which we afterwards passed. Once more we were free of islands, crossing the wide Celebes Sea.
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