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And the Countess for the hundredth time related to her grandson one of her anecdotes. "Come, Paul," said she, when she had finished her story, "help me to get up. Lizanka, where is my snuffbox?" And the Countess with her three maids went behind a screen to finish her toilette. Tomsky was left alone with the young lady.
Do you remember, harking back in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading? Subject, what is in this snuffbox? MRS BREEN: You were the lion of the night with your seriocomic recitation and you looked the part. You were always a favourite with the ladies.
Every day some superb piece of china, curious snuffbox, or jewel, was pressed upon him; so that, at the end of the season, he could almost have furnished a toyshop with the acknowledgments he had received. Not only his avarice, but his pleasure, was gratified in the course of his medical administration.
Leaving the fire he moved to a window, and stood looking out upon the windy twilight. From the back of the house came a sound of voices and of footsteps. The Colonel put up his snuffbox and brushed a grain from his ruffles. "Enter two murderers!" he said briskly. "Will you have them here, Haward, or shall we go into the hall?" "Light all the candles, Juba," ordered the master.
"But do you not see that Anthony evidently thinks our son is guilty?" "Anthony is an old fool!" declared the marquis. Then pulling out his snuffbox, and stuffing his nose full of snuff, he said, "Besides, let us consider. Did you not tell me that Jacques is in love with that little Dionysia Chandore?" "Desperately. Like a real child." "And she?" "She adores Jacques." "Well.
Jarge left 'is best sledge be'ind 'im, and I my crowbar, and we never went back for them, nor never shall, no." Here Simon paused to mop the grizzled hair at his temples. "I tell 'ee, Peter, that place aren't fit for no man at night. If so be you'm lookin' for a bed, my chap, theer's one you can 'are at 'The Bull, ready and willin'." "An' gratus!" added the Ancient, tapping his snuffbox.
But their importance in the issue of the case will presently be seen. "Halcro Ericson!" said Bailie Duke. I rose to my feet and faced him. He tapped his snuffbox and took a large pinch, and leisurely passed the box to the dominie.
By and by, one day, I asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make it out no way. I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it. I says to myself, if a body can get anything they pray for, why don't Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? Why can't the widow get back her silver snuffbox that was stole?
I question if one here, unless some contemporary of my own has strayed into the amphitheatre, knows anything about Marjolin. I remember two things about his lectures on surgery, the deep tones of his voice as he referred to his oracle, the earlier writer, Jean Louis Petit, and his formidable snuffbox.
The same evening Duroc brought him, as a present, a snuffbox with Bonaparte's portrait, set round with diamonds, worth one thousand louis d'or. The adventures of this day certainly did not lessen His Eminence in the favour of Napoleon or of Pius VII. Last November, some not entirely unknown persons intended to amuse themselves at the Cardinal's expense.
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