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She took it out and held it up accusingly before Peg's eyes: "Her jewel-box! Where did you get this?" "I took it," said Peg promptly. "Took it?" "Yes, aunt, I took it!" Mrs. Chichester opened the box: it was full. Every jewel that Ethel owned was in it. "Her jewels! Ethel's jewels?" "Yes I took them too." "You were STEALING them?" "No. I wasn't STEALING them, I just TOOK 'em!"
Flora could see the white gloves going to and fro among her white handkerchiefs, could see them find, open and examine the contents of her jewel-box. And the only thing that kept her from shrieking out was the feeling that this abominable thing which was being enacted before her eyes couldn't be a fact at all.
I waited for her, for a time, there in her room, and, as I walked to and fro, I saw, through an open door, upon a table that jewel-box." Mrs. Vanderlyn was looking at him in complete astonishment. Even in her artificial soul there rose some admiration for the man who would confess to felony, rather than submit his child to suffering. "And you ," she cried.
As soon as he was gone she dressed herself, and taking from a handsome jewel-box the present of her husband, a gold watch and chain, a bracelet, diamond pin, and some other articles of the same kind, left the house. Two hours afterward, as Brainard sat at his desk trying to fix his mind upon the accounts before him, a note was handed in bearing his address.
My firmness and my threats, and perhaps also the fear of the police, made them think themselves lucky to get off with their jewel-box. As soon as they were gone the ladies, like the kindly creatures they were, began to pity them. "You might have given them back their book," they said to me. "And you, ladies, might have let them keep their money." "But they cheated us of it." "Did they?
She rejoiced to be working for the woman she had fallen in love with. Aminta promised herself to show the friend a livelier affection at their next meeting. A seventh letter, signed 'Adolphus, came by post, was read and locked up in her jewel-box. They were all nigh destruction for a wavering minute or so.
"I bought this yesterday for my wife; took it out of a little deal in Trolley," he told Hopkins, taking a small jewel-box from one of the desk's drawers. It contained a diamond ring, somewhat showy, but obviously quite expensive. Hopkins's semi-envious admiration made Gilmartin add, genially: "What do you say to lunch?
Not much was taken except the aunt's jewel-box and some money she had in her desk. The robbers were frightened away before they could go to any of the other suites. "The next day the Gypsies had left their encampment, too. Of course, there was nothing to connect the robbery with the Gyps., save circumstantial evidence. The police didn't find either the Gypsies or the necklace.
During his absence the precious family jewel-box was locked in safety. Aminta and her friend, little Miss Collett, were out driving, by the secretary's report. The earl considered it a wholesome feature of Aminta's character that she should have held to her modest schoolmate the fact spoke well for both of them.
He managed to open the door of the treasure- chamber, then entered and loaded his pockets with gold. He sent up the jewel-box at the end of the rope, dragged the body of Cobo into the cave, then wedged the barricade back into place. It required the combined strength of Rosa and Jacket to help him the last few feet of his climb.
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