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Updated: June 26, 2025
When he spies me a-napping maybe he don't fetch me a prod with his pencil-case over the head." But Milly was a pretty and a clever creature in spite of her uncouth dialect, and I liked her very much. We spent much time taking long country rambles and exploring the old house, many of whose rooms were closed and shuttered. Of my uncle we saw little.
'She didn't go to school with the Meshummodim. Bloomah suddenly picked up her satchel. 'What's your books for? You don't fry fish with books. Mrs. Beckenstein wrested it away from her, and dashed it on the floor. The pencil-case rolled one way, the thimble another. 'But I can get to school for the afternoon attendance. 'Madness! With your sister in agony? Have you no feelings?
He showed me his crest on a seal at the end of his pencil-case, and then departed. The medicine came a quarter of an hour later in a sealed packet. This time I brought the bottle into the sick-room, and placed it on the mantelpiece, where it was impossible for any one to touch it. When Mr. Hale came for his second visit, there was a grave and anxious look in his face.
Well, I propose that each member of the company composes, within the space of ten minutes, four lines of verse descriptive of the scenery. I have brought pencils and paper; and the best writer shall have my gold pencil-case to him or her self." There was a general exclamation, and each one declared it impossible to perform such a feat.
He bragged about the news that day to the boys at school; told them how he was going to live with his grandpapa his father's father, not the one who comes here sometimes; and that he would be very rich, and have a carriage, and a pony, and go to a much finer school, and when he was rich he would buy Leader's pencil-case and pay the tart-woman.
Only two colors are necessary to change the whole face red and black at the eyebrows, the nostrils, and the corners of the mouth. Look here;" and taking from his pocket a gold pencil-case, he corrected the faults in the young artist's work. As soon as he had finished, Andre went up to the mirror over the chimney-piece, and was surprised at the result.
She laughed, and showed her little silver pencil-case, which had a pen at one end, with which she had scratched her forehead in her abstraction. The attention of Camors was redoubled from this moment the more so from a rapid and significant glance from the Marquise, which seemed to warn him of an approaching event.
About her neck hung a pair of eye-glasses; at her wrist were attached a silver pencil-case and a miniature ivory paper-knife.
One day it was told of him that, having given a cup to be raced for on the Bob-run, he was wroth to find on the notice-board of entries the names of a team of highly respectable little Englishmen who are familiar on the racecourse; and, taking out his pencil-case, he scored them off, saying, "My cup is for gentlemen, not jockeys," whereupon a young English soldier standing by had said: "We're not jockeys here, sir, and we're not princes; we are only sportsmen."
'Madame de la Rougierre, I have to request you that you will give me the key now in your possession, which unlocks this desk of mine. With which termination he tapped his gold pencil-case suddenly on it.
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