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He was conscious that his own khaki spoiled something as curious and rare as some old Chinese tea-chest. He even remembered what they ate; lobster; cold pigeon pie; asparagus; St. Ivel cheese; raspberries and cream.
"We must see about that," said the doctor. "We will try to manufacture a still to turn salt water into fresh." "But the charcoal will go but a little way for that purpose," remarked his young companion. "Nil desperandum," answered the doctor. "We will try what can be done." "Here's a case which looks like a tea-chest," remarked one of the men who was helping them. "It is somewhat wet though."
All I took from Adelaide were a small set of scales capable of determining the weight of a button down to 20 ozs. to the ton, a piece of cheese cloth to make a screen or sieve, a tin ring 1 1/2 in. diameter, by 1/2 in. high, a small brass door knob to use as a cupel mould, and some powdered borax, carbonate of soda, and argol for fluxes; while for reducing lead I had recourse to the lining of a tea-chest, which lead contains no silver John Chinaman takes good care of that.
"Now's your chance, Jim!" he cried. "You always said you'd like to have a cut at it." "H'm!" muttered the other. "A 'double' o' that fifteen over-proof Jamaica of yours, Sin, would hit me in a tender spot tonight." "Lum?" murmured Sin Sin blandly. "No hate got." He resumed his seat on the tea-chest, and the raven muttered sleepily, "Sin Sin Sin." "H'm!" repeated the constable.
We could wish that the English fashion might generally prevail, of giving the traveler his own kettle of boiling water and his own tea-chest, and letting him make tea for himself. At all events he would then be sure of one merit in his tea, it would be hot, a very simple and obvious virtue, but one very seldom obtained.
Was it a delusion of fancy, acting on reflections in the glass, that, as he mounted the steps from the lawn, depicted Mary's figure through the dining-room windows? Nay, the table was really laid for breakfast a female figure was actually standing over the tea-chest. 'A scene from the Vicar of Wakefield deluding me, decided Louis, advancing to the third window, which was open.
"You can write it down in your diaries." "We might as well attempt to copy the top of a tea-chest," added Louis. The ladies were assisted on board of the steamer. The captain was a very gentlemanly Englishman; and he was all devotion to the wants of his passengers, who seated themselves on the promenade deck.
"No one took any notice of me. They simply carried me, lifted me up, and dumped me down as if I were a tea-chest," replied the girl. "Well, that is all my adventure. But now please tell me how you came so opportunely to my rescue. Was it by chance or did you follow us? Oh, I forgot. You said you saw Lalla, so you must have been at Malpura. Did Fred send you?"
"What do you say to her being a heavy frigate, capable of blowing this old tea-chest out of the water?" Morton was informed of the sail in sight, but he was too much occupied in guiding the ship out of the labyrinth of reefs to make any other reply than the simple one, "If she is like an enemy get the ship ready for action." What he felt his countenance did not show.
Henrietta saw an expression on her countenance which made her unwilling to disturb her, and nothing more was said till it was discovered that it was bed time. "Where is Madame?" asked Frederick of his sister, as she entered the breakfast room alone the next morning with the key of the tea-chest in her hand. "A headache," answered Henrietta, "and a palpitation." "A bad one?"
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