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Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk. 'No, said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, 'I don't know much about it either way. I only know he's dead. 'When did he die? inquired another. 'Last night, I believe. 'Why, what was the matter with him? asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box.
And if you choose to laugh, young sir why, you may; we are not ashamed with such a Queen, and I do her homage." The Doctor stooped and kissed Kate's hand in the grand manner which is now lost, after which he drew out his snuff-box and tapped it pleasantly, as one who had taken part in a state function; but there was the suspicion of a tear in his eye, for these things woke old memories.
"Grandpapa, I sent him as security your diamond snuff-box. I did it to save you from going to prison." "Unhappy boy! what have you done? The diamonds are false!" cried the baron; "I sold the real ones three years ago!" The commissary of police and his agents looked at each other. That look, full of many things, was intercepted by Baron Bourlac, and seemed to blast him.
His back was turned to Chauvelin and he was still prattling along in his own affected and inane way, but from his pocket he had taken his snuff-box, and quickly and suddenly he emptied the contents of the pepper-pot into it. Then he again turned with an inane laugh to Chauvelin, "Eh? Did you speak, sir?"
Walton, are always trying to close about us, and shut out the vision of the glories we have come from, as Wordsworth says." "A man," I answered, "who ministers to the miserable necessities of his fellows has even more need than another to believe in the light and the gladness else a poor Job's comforter will he be. I don't want to be treated like a musical snuff-box." The doctor laughed.
Taking out her snuff-box, she offered it to her daughter, telling her that "like enough 'twould cure her headache." Mrs. Livingstone's first impulse was to strike it from her mother's hand, but knowing how unladylike that would be, she restrained herself, and turning away her head, replied, "Ugh! no! The very sight of it makes me sick." "How you do talk!
Her name was really Matilda. One day her curiosity got the better of her, and she removed the lid from her grandmother's snuff-box. The story goes on to say: "Poor eyes, and nose, and mouth, and chin A dismal sight presented; And as the snuff got further in Sincerely she repented." Barring the element of repentance, the red pepper was equally provocative of results in our school.
Belleville threw his pistol to the ground, and drawing his gold snuff-box from his vest-pocket with his small white hands, adorned with cuffs of lace, he played carelessly upon the lid; then opened it, and slowly and gracefully took a pinch of snuff, saying, coolly, "I await your ball." Marshal raised his pistol and aimed directly at the head of his enemy, who looked him firmly in the eye.
Satisfactory replies being made to these queries, he surmised that the roads were pretty heavy arter that fall last night, and took the liberty of asking whether any of them gentlemen carried a snuff-box.
Even the more important of the two physicians pursed his lips into a smile, and proffered his snuff-box to his colleague, who, smothering with laughter, whispered: "Are we not capital actors?" Meanwhile M. Cambray drove rapidly in the Marquis de Fervlans's carriage through the streets of Paris. He was buried in thought. He glanced only now and then from the window.
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