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I had hoped to get to her at least an hour before the train left, because I did not wish to attract attention to myself, or," he added, "to Miss Rider. When I looked at my watch, and realised that it was impossible to get down, I left the bag as it was, half-packed and went outside to the tube station and telephoned." "How did you get in and out?" asked Tarling.
Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about. It was not in the first few moments that I saw all these things, though I saw more of them in the first moments than might be supposed. But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow.
Schmettau was not to have marched till Monday, 10th, six clear days for packing and preparing; but, practically, he has to make three serve him; and to go half-packed, or not packed at all.
Yesterday she forgot, and left it open while she was down talking to Cook, and I slipped in. And there was one of her great big trunks, that she always keeps in the box room, half-packed with her things. I nicked this necklace out of it, too," said Avice with triumph, producing a quaint string of Italian beads. "Good business," said Wilfred with an appreciative grin. "Did she catch you?"
Into the midst of the going-away confusion of a household about to remove itself half around the world, into a house distracted with packing, cheerless with linen-covers, desolate with rolled-up rugs and cold lunches and half-packed trunks, came, in a matter-of-fact manner characteristic of its writer, Judith's answer to Sylvia's letter.
At the last word she hurried up the aisle, and down the stairs, into the soft beauty of the May night. She felt she could stand no good-bys. In her hotel room she busied herself with the half-packed trunks and bags. So it was she altogether failed to see the dark young man who hurried after her eagerly, and who was stopped by a dozen welcoming hands there in the temple vestibule.
You need not go on." Then Rodney turned and saw him, sitting still on the floor by the half-packed bag, with the yellow dog sleeping against him. In the dim light his face looked pale and pinched like a dead man's. "You've done your work," the flat voice said. "You've taken it away the new life we so wanted. You've shown that it can't be. You're quite right.
But when he awoke in the morning he looked at his half-packed portmanteau and laughed, and instead of saying "What a fool I am!" he said "What a fool I was!" which is generally and in most conditions of human affairs a much wiser thing to say.
I begged that she would not go near the flat, and I promised that I myself would go there, pack the necessary articles for the journey and take them down in a taxi to Charing Cross." "I see," said Tarling, "so it was you who packed the bag?" "Half-packed it," corrected Mr. Milburgh. "You see, I'd made a mistake in the time the train left.
I wakened early, rang a bell connecting my rooms with the chauffeur's end of the garage as a warning to the Flynns to prepare breakfast, and was dressed when the Irishman came in with the tray. In the absence of a morning paper I clung to him for company. "I trust you will not be leaving, sorr," he remarked, eyeing my half-packed trunk. "Very soon, Flynn."
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