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Fancy to yourself a big jewel-box of dark green velvet lined with silver chiffon, the snow peak lying like an immense opal in its center and over all the amber light of a new day. That is what it looked most like. Well, we next went to the corral, where I was surprised to find about thirty head of sheep. Some of them looked like they should have been sold ten years before.
The man raced round the saloon still shouting, and raced away again up-stairs and out of sight. Everyone followed him pell-mell, helter-skelter, and almost in a second I found myself alone. I put on my overcoat, and my mackintosh over that, and seizing Rosa's jewel-box, I followed the crowd.
The night before the earl's departure on the solitary expedition to which she condemned him, he surprised her with a visit of farewell, so that he need not disturb her in the early morning, he said. She was reading beside her open jewel-box, and she closed it with the delicate touch of a hand turned backward while listening to him, with no sign of nervousness.
Rather than be alone, she would admit Phoebe Marks into her confidence, and loll on one of the sofas in her luxurious dressing-room, discussing a new costume for some coming dinner-party; or sit chattering to the girl with her jewel-box beside her, upon the satin cushions, and Sir Michael's presents spread out in her lap, while she counted and admired her treasures.
Nor did I perceive that there was no real necessity for me to catch the steamer. I might just as well have spent the night at the Lord Warden, and proceeded on my journey in the morning. But no! I must hurry away instantly! Then I thought of the jewel-box. "Where's my jewel-box?" I demanded vehemently from the guard, as though he had stolen it. He turned to me.
A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully.
It followed very easily, that I could see little of my dear old friend. Mamma was suspicious of me and rarely allowed me to go I out of her sight. We abode still at the hotel, where we had luxurious quarters; how paid for, mamma's jewel-box knew.
"But you didn't get a hundred and seventy dollars for the timepiece?" "No. Have you lost no other comfort? Think." Brainard thought, but in vain. Anna glided from the room, and returned in a few moments with her jewel-box. "Do you miss any thing?" said she, as she raised the lid and placed the box in his hands. "Your watch and chain!" Anna smiled. "You did not sell them?" "Yes." "Why, Anna!
"For the first charade," said Sylla, "the scenery should be a wood scene, and then we want a lady's bed-chamber. The second charade is simply a drawing-room scene all through. For properties a brace of pistols, a pair of handcuffs, a jewel-box with plenty of bracelets, rings, &c. we ladies can easily find those amongst us. In the second, nothing but a letter in bold handwriting.
And, if you'd believe her, there's not a man in the audience, afternoon or evening, that isn't dead-gone on her. "Guess who's my latest," she said to me this afternoon, while we four Charities stood in the wings waiting. "Topham old Topham!" It all got clear to me then in a minute. "Topham nothing!" I sneered. "Beryl Big-head, Topham thinks of only one thing Milady's jewel-box.
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