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"Of course," answered Lady Olivia, detaching from her belt the little leather bag in which she usually carried her handkerchief, scent-bottle, and other odds and ends. "I think that several of them are quite good; but my husband declares that they are not worth the trouble of picking up."
You heard Lottie's insinuation that you might have had some share in the accident! Had you touched the scent-bottle at all that night?" "I had not, Miss Phipps!" The grey eyes looked into the face of the questioner with a steady light.
Smithers and her scent-bottle, he was at the back of Clara's chair almost before her confused eyes had missed him in her gasps for breath, and impulse to do something desperate; and so she might, if his voice had not been in her ear, his hand grasping hers, both to console and raise her. 'Clara, come, take care. She obeyed, but trembling so much that he was obliged to support her.
Flora, where can my tortoise-shell fan be? Oh, thank you, Sir Thomas, so much. And my lace shawl, Flora? Oh, thank you, Sir Thomas, very kind, I'm sure'; and the worthy creature finally managed to get downstairs without dropping her scent-bottle more than twice.
True, Ding-dong had ordered him with his last breath to steer clear of human habitation "They're all in it," the old man had said. But then he possessed the scent-bottle. Now he had nothing but his skin to lose, and as things were he could afford to lose that. Here at any rate was a straw to catch at. Moreover he was in no hurry to get to Lewes to be called a liar.
"One moment!" cried the boy; and hating himself, he thrust a finger and thumb into the opening, and plucked out the thing which gleamed within. It was a cut-glass scent-bottle. They came under the counter of the sloop, the boat towing the lugger, and Black Diamond dead, the moon upon him. A face, tallowy-nosed and black-whiskered, was leaning over the side.
He could hear their voices on the other side. Now was his chance. On tiptoe he crept off the betraying shingle, and began to climb, the scent-bottle in his mouth. A recent fall of cliff helped him, making a ramp. Up it he went, a tiny trickle of dislodged shale dribbling away beneath his feet. At the top of the fall a mat of weeds had grown. On this he stayed.
No sooner had I arranged my affairs, and slipped the scent-bottle and bottle of salts, newly filled, into a dainty little case under the window, when Lady Turnour and Sir Samuel appeared.
The boy's anxious eyes were sea-ward. The old pain of heart, forgotten for the moment in the cottage, had returned, the old sickening sense of failure. After all, the responsibility was his, and his alone. It was in him old Ding-dong had trusted; it was to him the scent-bottle had been bequeathed; the fate of Nelson rested on his shoulders.
She held in one hand the gold stopper of her precious scent-bottle, and in the other a number of pieces of broken glass, at sight of which a groan of dismay sounded on every hand. "Voila! Regardez See what I 'ave found! I go to my room, and the air is full of scent, and I turn up the gas, and there it is on the dressing-table before my eyes in pieces!
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