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Between him and Dunn lay the packing-case, and Dunn was surprised to see that it was still there and that nothing had changed or moved; and then again he said to himself that this was a foolish thought only worthy of some excitable, hysterical girl. "It's being too much for me," he thought resignedly. "I've heard of people being driven mad by horror. I suppose that's what's happening to me."
A packing-case of cyclopean bulk was borne along the platform by some dozen of tottering porters, and ultimately, to the delight of a considerable crowd, hoisted on board the van.
He pointed to one on the hillside. 'Ags for Major Dooker, was the Dutch-accented answer. Bidding Samson stay where he was, I made my way as directed. A middle-aged officer in undress uniform was sitting on an empty packing-case in front of his tent, whittling a piece of its wood. 'Pray sir, said I in my best Louis Quatorze manner, 'have I the pleasure of speaking to Major Dooker? 'Tucker, sir.
One Irregular was sitting on an earth-filled packing-case, swearing softly, nursing a disabled right arm, and looking at the corded network of hairy, sunburned muscles that were delicately outlined in the bright red stream that trickled from beneath the rolled-up shirt-sleeve of raspy "greyback." "We saw your hairy tied up outside, Doctor, and 'sensed' your whereabouts, as McFadyen says.
The bed behind her had been substantially lengthened, apparently by the help of a packing-case in which Mrs. Fenwick had brought some of her possessions across the Atlantic. A piece of white dimity had been tacked round the packing-case. 'Carrie, what on earth are you doing? cried Miss Anna, in dismay. 'It's all right, said Carrie 'I'm only making it over.
Orders flew about like grape-shot. Everybody got in everybody else's way. But finally the unwieldy packing-case was in position, and a silence fell upon the company. 'My gum, we've put it upside down, said Daddy, red in the face with his exertions. It was the merest chance that there was no wisp of straw yet in his beard.
And lastly, all bystanders being pressed into the service, the packing-case mounted the steps upon some fifteen pairs of wavering legs scraped, loudly grinding, through the doorway and was deposited at length, with a formidable convulsion, in the far end of the lobby, which it almost blocked. The artisans of this victory smiled upon each other as the dust subsided.
'Without this confounded cold, it would be finished, answered Mahoudeau. 'I'll show it you. He rose from his knees after listening to the snorting of the stove. In the middle of the studio, on a packing-case, strengthened by cross-pieces, stood a statue swathed is linen wraps which were quite rigid, hard frozen, draping the figure with the whiteness of a shroud.
First, they dealt with the bedrooms, and made for each a set of long shelves and a dressing-table-cupboard the latter a noble piece of furniture, which was merely a packing-case, smoothed, planed and fitted with shelves; the whole to be completed with a seemly petticoat when Tommy should be able to detach her mind from influenza patients.
"Great heavens! what an Adam to select!" thought Broomhurst, involuntarily, as Mrs. Drayton rose rather suddenly from the table. "I'll come and help with that packing-case," John said, rising, in his turn, lumberingly from his place; "then we can have a smoke eh! Kathie don't mind, if we sit near the entrance."
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