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Hortense, who had not removed her veil or cloak, replied: "I want a clasp." "They're in this show-case," he said, leading the way to the connecting room. Hortense glanced over the glass case and said: "No, no, ... I don't see what I'm looking for. I don't want just any clasp, but a clasp which I lost out of a jewel-case some years ago and which I have to look for here."
He has tried to put it into color the miniature counter, the show-case, the background of boxes, each with a button looking mischievously at him, or a glove shaking its forefinger, or a shapely pair of hose making him blush, and the daintiest child in the world, flushing and flirting and gossiping before him; but the sketch recalls matters which he would forget, his hands lose command, something makes his eye very dim, and he lays aside his implements, and takes a long walk, and wears a sober face all that day.
Radiata, mollusca, feathers, flowers, ferns, mosses, palms, pines, grain-fields, leaves of cedar, chestnut, elm, acanthus: these and multitudes of other objects are figured on your frosty window; on sixteen different panes I have counted sixteen patterns strikingly distinct, and it appeared like a show-case for the globe.
"Bully for you!" he cried, and with an abrupt if artificial resumption of his business-like air turned away to a show-case to spare her the embarrassment of his regard. "I didn't think," said the voice behind him; "I didn't mean to something happened that almost drove me wild and..." "I know," he said gently. After a bit she spoke again: "I'll go up and get dinner ready now."
Rosenbaum and seemed to regard him with close attention, but the latter gentleman was absorbed in the contemplation of an assortment of diamonds and various gems displayed in a jeweller's window, directly opposite the restaurant. In the mirrored back of the show-case the restaurant was plainly visible, and Mr.
"I sorter thought this would be the thing." Long bent down and for the twentieth time dusted his shoes with his handkerchief. "Now get them cigars." He led the way to a show-case near the front. "Help yourself them's the genuine Havana fillers in the corner. Take good ones by George, take the best." "I won't take but one," Henley said, as he opened the case and reached for a cigar.
You can see how much time, trouble and expense would have been saved had the smart Aleck dropped a card to the house saying he did not want the lanterns and held them subject to orders. "Yes," said Blissam, "but I have seen goods go back when I thought it was the proper thing to do. You know one of the latest schemes is to sell goods in cases, and throw in the show-case.
Martin finished counting. Nothing had happened. We all breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, it is still there!" exclaimed Martin, pointing at the show- case, with a forced laugh. Suddenly came a rending and crashing sound. It seemed as if the very floor on which we stood was giving way. The show-case, with all its priceless contents, went smashing down into the cellar below.
Besides, he ain't an Eskimo dog I mean he isn't," he corrected quickly, seeing Santa Claus look at him. "But he's awful bad after cats." Just then, to his horror, he saw Sate in the show-case with his eye on a big, white cat. He could hardly keep from crying out; but he called to him very quietly, "Come here, come here, Sate. Don't you hear me, sir? Come here."
He turned and began to rummage in a dilapidated show-case, and at length brought forth with triumph the required article. He laid it carefully on the counter, and resumed his study of the list. A brush and comb were the next requisites, and these, after considerable searching, were produced. "Yer doin' fine, Ezry," the captain encouraged.
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