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"There is no porter," he said, abruptly, glancing at her heavy bag and shawl-strap. "Would you permit me to help you?" "Oh, thank you!" replied Dr. Dare, heartily, relinquishing her burden. Plainly, this poor fellow was not a gentleman. The lady could afford to be kind to him. "I know nothing how we shall find it," she chatted, affably, "but I go to work to-night.
I had neither umbrella, portmanteau, nor shawl-strap; such ordinary paraphernalia of travel I remembered once to have possessed, and tried in vain to recall the particular occasions on which they had been wrecked in Wallencamp.
The locomotive whistle was droning again, and a dodging procession of red-eyed switch-lights flicked past the windows. Kent stood up and flung away the stump of his cigar. "The capital," he announced. "I'll go back with you and help out with the shawl-strap things." And in the vestibule he added: "I spoke of Loring because he will be with us in anything we have to do in Mrs. Brentwood's behalf.
'Now we are fairly started, with no more weighing of luggage, fussing over checks, or packing of traps to afflict us. What a heavenly sense of freedom it gives one, to have nothing but an independent shawl-strap! said Matilda, as they settled themselves in a vacant car, and stowed away the bundles. What a jolly day that was, to be sure!
Every time there was a Jim-Crow Speaking, then the Hon. James Henry Guff showed up with his Voice in a Shawl-Strap and also a fine Assortment of Platitudes. When the Congressman wrote to him and asked him to get the Swazey County Delegates into Line, he always addressed his letter to the Hon. James Henry Guff and in the Course of Time Guff began to believe. But a prouder Distinction awaited him.
Marjorie dropped her shawl-strap of books on the carpet of the hall and stood at the hat-stand hanging up her cloak and hat. Miss Prudence had kissed her, but they had not looked into each other's eyes. Was it possible that Miss Prudence suspected? Marjorie asked herself as she took off her rubbers.
There was a steamer trunk on the floor, a portmanteau on the seat, while the two bunks were covered with a miscellaneous assortment of hand-bags, shawl-strap bundles, and packages. The steward smiled. "I think he wants a room to himself," he said.
Frieda was intent upon seeing that no harm was done her belongings, which were piled up about her, umbrella, hand-bags, a carryall, a shawl-strap, a brown linen roll with Gute Reise embroidered on it, and a long trunk with rounded edges.
I shall hang my shawl-strap on the castle wall as a trophy of the prowess of my Amanda, and the success of the last Declaration of American Independence, replied Lavinia. 'I, also, said Mat, opening her bundle for the one hundreth and last time. 'You do me proud; I humbly thank you, and with a superb curtsy the commander-in-chief modestly retired behind the towel.
Jimmy was carrying the water-melon now, by means of a shawl-strap. Oh, and I forgot threee dozen mince turnovers, brought by Ed Mason. The Captain snorted a little over the fresh bread and some of the other things. "If you'd ever had to live for months at a time on salt-hoss an' hard tack, the same's I've done, you wouldn't bring soft bread on a boat. It spiles in no time."
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