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Halicarnassus fumbles in his pockets for edge-tools, as if Queen Victoria, who rules the waves, on whose dominions the sun never sets, whose morning drum-beat encircles the world, would leave the main gate of her main fort on one of the frontiers of her empire so insecurely defended that a single American can carry it with his fruit-knife.
Jack beamed over the handsome postage-stamp book which had long been the desire of his heart, and Jill felt like a millionaire, with a silver fruit-knife, a pretty work-basket, and oh! coals of fire on her head! a ring from Jack.
Such ideas I energetically enforce, till I am cut short by the slow retrogression of the massive gate on ponderous hinges turning. "What about the fruit-knife?" inquires Halicarnassus as I pass in. The reconnoitering party return to report a bootless search, and are electrified to find the victory already gained. "See the good of having been through college," exults Halicarnassus.
He likes to have things nice, so Ellen she Why, when I was packing up to come away he brought me that repoussé fruit-knife there in my bag Oh, it's in my other bag! Never mind; I'll show it to you some other time solid silver, you know. Bigelow and Kennard their things always good, though expensive; and my son-in-law he said, 'You're going to a fruit country, and Mrs.
"It was a very beautiful poignard," continued Wolston, "and rather a bijou than a weapon; and, as the servants had neglected to hand him a fruit-knife, he made use of it in paring an apple." "Is it all over?" inquired Sophia, removing a hand from one ear. "Alas! yes!" said Jack, lugubriously, "he has been and done it." "O the monster!"
"It was certainly noisy enough to drown what I was saying." There is a sound upon her other side as if a musical bell rang. "Miss Plumer!" Her head turns. This time Mr. Sligo Moultrie sees the massive dark braids of her hair behind. The ripe mouth half smiles upon Prince Abel. He holds a porcelain plate with a peach upon it, and a silver fruit-knife in his hand.
Eh, you should have seen that fellow grin! `No, sir, he says, `we ain't got nothing of the sort. `Well, then, says I, `take this knife away, there's a good man! for it's too fine for me, and bring me a good steel knife with an edge as'll cut. Now, if you'll excuse my long story, gentlemen, it seems to me that the sort of religion you say is getting popular among the swell people and men of science in our country is uncommon like that fruit-knife as couldn't suit me.
One had the little doyley Angela had first recognised, another reluctantly produced a silver folding fruit-knife with 'C. Ashe' engraved on the handle. When the girls saw this they looked at each other. "Cousin Charlotte and Anna would have missed that," they whispered, "and then we should have had to tell." The constable looked grave, too, when he saw the knife and the doyley.
He was superb in vegetable Pantagruelism, with his cravat taken off, his shirt unbuttoned at the neck, his fruit-knife in hand, laughing, drinking water, carving into the pulp of a doyenne pear. I should like to add and talking. But Balzac talked only little.
It was one of the very tightly stuck kind that scrumples up when you try to rip it with your finger, and we had to slit it with a fruit-knife before we could get at the letter. There were sheets of thin paper all covered with writing, and when Jerry and Greg saw that, they both fell upon it so that none of us could read it at all.
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