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"What a funny lunch!" she exclaimed, as she ran into the dining-room. "Looks good, though," and she sat down on a packing-box, and took the plate her mother offered. "Yes, it's a sort of picnic," said Mrs. Rose; "everything's cold, but it does taste good!"
Too drowsy to heed the absurdity of such a plea at such an hour, Kirby grumbled a surly assent, and dozed again as he heard Najib rumbling, in the dark, among the shelves of the packing-box bookcase in a far corner of the tent. Here were stored nearly a hundred old volumes which had once been a part of the missionary library belonging to Kirby's father at Nablous.
These ladies came in a sleigh, made of a large packing-box put on runners, to beg the newcomer, Mrs. Osbourne, to join them in this festivity. Having some pretty clothes she had brought with her, she hastily dressed by the aid of a shining tin pan which one of the women held up for her, there being no such thing as a mirror in the entire camp. Years afterwards, when Mrs.
And there were piazzas with fringed Mexican hammocks, wild-grass cushions, a tea-table with a samovar, and, last, a lady in white muslin pouring tea. The stern reality apparently consisted in scorching alkali plains, with houses of the packing-box school of architecture at a distance of seventy or eighty miles apart.
You've had quite a little excitement the last day or two." With a tremendous effort, Nora recovered her self-control. She walked steadily over to one of the packing-box stools and sat down. "It was silly of me, but you don't know how you startled me. Don't think I usually have nerves, but but the place was strange last night and I didn't sleep very well."
As McTeague reached his room he stumbled over, in the darkness, a big packing-box that stood in the hallway just outside his door. Puzzled, he stepped over it, and lighting the gas in his room, dragged it inside and examined it. It was addressed to him. What could it mean? He was expecting nothing. Never since he had first furnished his room had packing-cases been left for him in this fashion.
Peter's imaginings were brought to an end by the packing-box being pulled out from the wall. "Hello!" said a voice. Peter groaned, but did not look up. The box was pulled out further, and a face peered in. "What you hidin' in there for?" Peter stammered feebly: "Wh-wh-what?" "You hurt?" demanded the voice. "I dunno," moaned Peter. The box was pulled out further, and its occupant slid out.
The greatest trouble was with the steamboat hands, and I resolved to let them go ashore as little as possible. Most articles of furniture were already, however, before our visit, gone from the plantation-house, which was now used only as a picket-station. The only valuable article was a pianoforte, for which a regular packing-box lay invitingly ready outside.
They didn't do it," said a man at the door. "It was the wheat itself that beat him; no combination of men could have done it." IV. A Fresh Start The evening had closed in wet and misty, and when Laura Jadwin came down to the dismantled library a heavy rain was falling. "There, dear," Laura said, "now sit down on the packing-box there. You had better put your hat on.
"You see Babe kept more things than she thought and it was too late to send for another packing-box, so she put them into a suit-case and a kit bag and a hat-box. And the carriage didn't come for us, so she tried to carry them all from the car, and of course she got stuck in the turn-stile. The girls are getting her out as fast as they can. They sent us on ahead to find you."
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