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Updated: May 16, 2025
She got out of the fly and told the man to carry in her box and dressing-case and then to wait. She opened the little gate, and as she did so, glancing up, she saw Franz Lippheim standing looking out at her from a ground-floor window. His gaze was stark in its astonishment. She returned it with a solemn smile.
"It belonged to my mother," he answered; "and I set the greatest value on it. It is a portrait of my father." Midwinter put the miniature abruptly, into Allan's hands, and withdrew to the opposite side of the cabin. "You know best where the things ought to be put in your own dressing-case," he said, keeping his back turned on Allan.
I sold the furniture, and made the best I could of the remainder of your wardrobe, and other things of value that you had left; indeed, everything, with the exception of the dressing-case and pistols, which had belonged to Major Carbonnell, and I thought you might perhaps some day like to have them." "How very kind of you, Timothy, to think of me in that way!
Thus it was that Pliny found himself domiciled that very evening in Theodore's gem of a room his favorite books piled with Theodore's on the table, his dressing-case standing beside Theodore's on the toilet-table opposite.
Among the articles were some which were new to the boys, and special notice was attracted by several pairs of kid gloves and a box of pomade which belonged in our pretty leather dressing-case, a gift from my grandmother.
'Why yes, you are going to your club. 'After the club... after the club. Shubin stretched himself again. 'No, Nikolai Artemyevitch, I want to work to-morrow. Another time. And he walked off. Nikolai Artemyevitch scowled, walked twice up and down the room, took a velvet box with the dressing-case out of the bureau and looked at it a long while, rubbing it with a silk handkerchief.
You'll soon get over the loss of your jungle girl. There, you may kiss my hand as a sign of your return to your allegiance." But when she entered her bedroom she did not at once proceed to get ready to go out, but unlocked her dressing-case and, taking out of it a letter, sat down to read it for the tenth time since she had received it that morning. Yet it was short and concise.
At the moment there was a dearth of trade, and the round-faced little German who had weathered all the Angelic storms was discovered shaving himself before a triangular bit of looking-glass, stuck up on the packing-box which served him by turns as a desk and a dressing-case. "How you vas, Mr. Litchervood?" was his greeting, offered while the razor was on the upward sweep.
Later, they also recalled the young man in dinner jacket and golf cap who had lost a dressing-case marked "James Blagwin." In his cabin Jimmie wrote two letters. The one to the captain of the ship read: "After we pass Fire Island I am going overboard. Do not make any effort to find me, as it will be useless. I am sorry to put you to this trouble." The second letter was to Jeanne.
In the morning, it was necessary for one gentleman to rise before the other, as the space in front of their berths was too narrow to allow of more than one performing his ablutions at a time. Our Yankee made a fair start, and had nearly completed his toilet, when he suddenly spied a tooth-brush and a box of tooth-powder in the dressing-case his companion had left open on the washstand.
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