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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Are you going to wash up them things?" "No." She was still cool and smiling: only, her grip on the knob of the door had tightened until the nails of her fingers were white. "Do you want me to make you?" "How can you do that?" "I'll soon show you." She waited the fraction of a moment. "I'll just get out those rugs, shall I? I think the holdall was put in here.
He told us that the Transport Board had promised him ten ox carts for the morrow. Two large motor lorries had turned up to take the two contingents of the "Stobarts." They were packing in, and we asked them to take our holdall as far as Rashka, for we were still distrustful of the ox carts. We had begun to get into a habit of not believing in anything till it was actually there.
Two trunks, a holdall, a hatbox in which reposed, in solitary grandeur, Francesca's picture hat, intended for the further undoing of the Irish gentry a guitar case, two bags, three umbrellas; all were safe but Salemina's large Vuitton trunk and my valise, which had been last seen at Edinburgh station.
"Your lemonade bottle," he said, a few minutes later, "has one of those glass stoppers in it instead of a cork. How shall I open it?" "Shank of a rowlock," said Priscilla. "Those spies on the island have got their tents down at last They're packing up now." Frank opened the lemonade bottle and then glanced at the island. The female spy was packing a holdall.
She caught up the heavy satchel from the floor. "Oh, don't," Lucy protested. "Please let me take it. I'm used to carrying heavy things. I am very strong." "Strong, are you?" questioned Ellen, without, however, turning her head or offering to surrender the large leather holdall. "An' how, pray, did you get so strong?" She passed into the hall and up the stairs as she spoke, Lucy following.
Having taken careful note of other landmarks and glanced at the sun, he lay on the ground at full length for a minute and then arose and approached the camel, who greeted him with a bubbling snarl. On its great double saddle were a gun-cover and a long cane, while from it dangled a haversack, camera, cartridge-case, satchel, canvas water-bag, and a cord-net holdall of odds and ends.
Two days later a cab deposited at the lodge Miss May, and her dress-basket, and her travelling-bag, and her holdall, together with certain loose periodicals and a volume or two bearing the yellow label of Mudie.
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