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Of course I just went down to Colonel Brook-White and got my own uniform, and that was all there was to that." "It puzzled Mr. Carter, though, how you got it in and out of the house. He used to open every bundle that came for Mr. Hoff." Sir Frederic laughed delightedly. "I had a messenger who used to bring it back and forth in a big lady's hat-box.
The two girls tramped hollowly up the bare stairs. Every sound reechoed under their hearts. They tramped down the bare corridor. Against the wall of Ursula's bedroom were her things a trunk, a work-basket, some books, loose coats, a hat-box, standing desolate in the universal emptiness of the dusk. 'A cheerful sight, aren't they? said Ursula, looking down at her forsaken possessions.
"Yes, everything!" cried Laura, who was on her knees busy laying the things neatly away in the trunk. Presently the maid returned laden with an armful of dresses and a hat-box. The box she placed on the floor, the dresses on top of the trunk. Going out again for more, she asked: "Yuh goin' to take dat opera cloak?"
I was wondering if you couldn't do something for her so that she could meet some of the ladies of Mesa. A luncheon, or something of that sort, you know. Have you seen my hat-brush anywhere?" "It's on that drawer beside your hat-box. She told me she would rather not. I suggested it. But I'll tell you what I could do: take Virginia Balfour round to see her.
He was of the easy, cultured class, as distinct from the workman or operative. This conclusion was borne out by his light baggage, which still lay about the berth, hat-box, rugs, umbrella, brown morocco hand-bag. All were the property of some one well to do, or at least possessed of decent belongings.
A handsome leather trunk occupied one corner, with a richly caparisoned silver-mounted Mexican saddle, a mahogany case of dueling pistols, a leather hat-box, locked and strapped, and a gorgeous gold and quartz handled ebony "presentation" walking stick.
Suddenly the Dictator appeared to find a difficulty; he employed both hands and stooped over his task; but it was not until after considerable manoeuvring that he extricated a large tiara of diamonds from the lining, and held it up for some seconds' examination before he placed it with the others in the hat-box. The tiara was a ray of light to Mr.
He bought a new jellab for wearing on visits to the sok; and after it had been proudly shown us, it was found, neatly folded up, placed on a hat-box in our bedroom. When we asked why it was there, he was taken aback. "Mightn't he keep it there? It was new: it was very clean." One evening, when he came in to settle accounts, he said that he wished to write a letter.
They reminded him of the day when his total resources were five pounds won in a wager, and of the day when he drove proudly about behind a mule collecting other people's rents, and of the glittering days when he burst in on her from Llandudno with over a thousand gold sovereigns in a hat-box product of his first great picturesque coup imagining himself to be an English Jay Gould.
It was young Spinks; and the luggage that he carried in his hand gave a frightful impetus to his entry. At the sight of Rickman he let go a hat-box, an umbrella and a portmanteau, and laid hold of him by both hands. "Razors what luck! I say, I've gone and done it. Chucked them hooked it. Stood it eighteen months couldn't stand it any longer. On my soul I couldn't. But it's all right I'll explain."
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