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He signed to the actor, and when he humbly asked whether Caesar had forgotten to exchange his morning wrapper for another dress, Caracalla laughed contemptuously, and replied: "Why, an empty corn-sack over my shoulders would be dress enough for this rabble of traders!"
Manston now stretched his arm into the oven, dragged forth a heavy weight of great bulk, and let it slide to the ground. The woman who watched him could see the object plainly. It was a common corn-sack, nearly full, and was tied at the mouth in the usual way. The steward had once or twice started up, as if he had heard sounds, and his motions now became more cat-like still.
By to-morrow, if he would but wait, Aunt Polly would have comfortably outfitted him after the custom of the house; given his clothes a final "going over" to see everything taut for the journey, shoved a week's rations into a corn-sack, choosing such condensed forms of nourishment as the system allowed nay, straining a point and smuggling in a nefarious pound or two of real miner's coffee.
"They are already on the road in a carriage Kennedy McClure's, I think," said Stair; "stand still there, Derry Down, or by the Holy !" And he leaped into his saddle which was no more than the corn-sack doubled and fastened close with broad bands of tape, used to go under the heavy pack saddles when a run was forward. "Where have they gone? Are they far ahead of us?" questioned Louis.
"Let's bury ourselves in this corn-sack," cried
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