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Pinckney came in and shewed us a musical snuff-box and we went home, and driving back Mary kicked me on the shin by axident and I pinched her and she didn't cry till we'd got home, then she began to roar and mother said it was my ungovernable temper, and I said I wished I was dead. "I shan't go to any more parties because it's always like that after them.
The Consul read it, and found it to be a really strong recommendation to the Marabout to do his utmost for the servants of the Dey's brother, the King of France, now in the hands of the children of Shaitan. 'Well purchased, said M. Dessault; 'though that snuff-box came from the hands of the Elector of Bavaria!
So the Marchioness and the gay Swiveller, with their happy gift of transforming a shred of lemon-peel and copious libations of pure water into nectar, might have walked the Christmas streets of New York as those of Ormus and of Ind. Lafayette, with the gold snuff-box in which the freedom of the city was presented to him, could not have been freer of it.
'I have something serious to say to you. Must I ask you to return to me at another time? Or will you be good enough to listen to me now? 'Sho, if you wish it, child, he said lightly, taking out his snuff-box. 'And to be sure there is time enough. But between us two, sweet 'There is nothing between us! she cried, impetuously snatching at the word. 'That is what I wanted to tell you.
I am sure he need not turn up his nose at our roast beef and pudding!" Here Mr. Mivers was taken with a violent fit of coughing, which drew off his wife's attention. She was afraid he had taken cold. The stranger took out a large snuff-box, inhaled a long pinch of snuff, and said to St. John, "This Mr. John Ardworth, a pert enough jackanapes, I suppose, a limb of the law, eh?"
It is a pretty old gold box enough, but valuable to me especially as a relic of an old, old relative, whom I can just remember as a child, when she was very kind to me. "Yes; a pretty box. I can remember when many ladies most ladies, carried a box nay, two boxes tabatiere and bonbonniere. What lady carries snuff-box now, hey?
From a distressed duchess whose picture lay perdu under a secret spring of his snuff-box, to a decayed laundress to whom he might have paid a compliment on the perfect involutions of a frill, it was quite sufficient to be a daughter of Eve to establish a just claim on Sir Sedley's inheritance from Adam.
A very stately gentleman, richly dressed, with a handkerchief of point in one hand and a jeweled snuff-box in the other, descended the steps, placing one shapely leg in its maroon-colored stocking before the other with the mannered grace of the leader of a Coranto. Colonel Verney met him with a low bow and smiling face, after which the two embraced, for they were old friends. "My dear Governor!"
"The Princess Barbara Ilinitsha!" announced one of the two footmen who used to stand behind Grandmamma's carriage, but Grandmamma was looking thoughtfully at the portrait on the snuff-box, and returned no answer. "Shall I show her in, madam?" repeated the footman. "Yes, show her in," said Grandmamma, settling herself as far back in her arm-chair as possible.
Then she gave to M. de Meneval a gold snuff-box, bearing his initials in diamonds, as a memento, and left him, to hide the emotion by which she was overcome. Her emotion was not very deep, and her tears soon dried. In 1814 she had met the man who was to make her forget her duty towards her illustrious husband.
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