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Consequently I have postponed it till now, when it is too dark for you to see my face." "Never!" he murmured fervently. "A double cataract could not deprive me of that vision. It is printed here, Plancine." He smacked his chest hard on the left side. "Yet it sounds hollow, George?" "Yes," he said. "It is a sandwich-box, an empty one. I would not consign your image to such a deplorable casket.
This did not save me from more jokes, either; for a husky-voiced gentleman with a rough face, who had been eating out of a sandwich-box nearly all the way, except when he had been drinking out of a bottle, said I was like a boa-constrictor who took enough at one meal to last him a long time; after which, he actually brought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef.
The one is too familiar to everybody; the pretty crowd of men and women, dotted with pink and set off by the neutral colour of the winter fields; the hunters of all ages, and sizes, and breeds, led slowly up and down by the grooms; while from time to time some rider gets into the saddle and makes himself comfortable, assures himself of girth and stirrup, and of the proper disposal of the sandwich-box and sherry-flask, gives a final word of instruction to his groom, and then moves slowly off.
But he was really wondering whether she expected him to speak first of the grave matters that brought them together in that lonely place. 'I've got some bread and butter, she said, opening a small sandwich-box, 'and there is a lemon instead of cream. 'Your arrangements beat Hare Court hollow, observed the millionaire. 'Do you remember the cracked cups and the weevilly biscuits?
Vincy had given that invitation which he had been "in no hurry about," for Rosamond at breakfast had mentioned that she thought her uncle Featherstone had taken the new doctor into great favor. Mr. Bulstrode, alone with his brother-in-law, poured himself out a glass of water, and opened a sandwich-box. "I cannot persuade you to adopt my regimen, Vincy?" "No, no; I've no opinion of that system.
One day I was walking along under the south side of a hill, which was a great place for butterflies, and I saw a man, apparently about fifty years old, coming along with a butterfly-net. He did not see me, for he looked about for a convenient piece of turf, and presently sat down, taking out a sandwich-box, from which he produced his lunch.
Then you will be there when the first people come and till the last have left. That will look even better. 'Maybe they'll say you take boarders, observed Mr. Van Torp facetiously. 'That other piece belongs to you. While talking they had finished their tea, and only one slice of bread and butter was left in the sandwich-box. 'No, answered Lady Maud, 'it's yours. I took the first.
Sara leaned forward, and unbuckling the lid of a flattish leather case which, together with another containing a flask, was slung just opposite her, withdrew from within it a silver sandwich-box. She snapped open the lid and proffered the box to Garth. "Help yourself.
We looked to see whence we had fallen, and not even the Chapeau was visible through the mist. "But, as I turned, Fidèle uttered a little cry. "'The flask, and the sandwich-box, and your poor coat! "'Comment? I said; and in a moment was in my shirt-sleeves. "I stared, and I wondered, and I clucked in my throat. "Holy saints! I was adorned with a breastplate on my back.
Whereupon I remembered my flask and sandwich-box, and pulling them out, assured him, with some apology for the offer, that they were at his service. His joy was childish. Again he whipped off his hat, and clapping it to his heart, swore my conduct did honour to my dead father; "and with Angus Cartwright," said he, "kindness was intuitive.
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