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Killgrove, the damster, came forth and offered us the freedom of his settlement in a tobacco-box. Tobacco is hospitality in the compactest form. Civilization has determined that tobacco, especially in the shape of smoke, is essential as food, water, or air. The pipe is everywhere the pipe of peace. Peace, then, and anodyne-repose, after a day of travel, were offered us by the friendly damster.
"Then you would be unbound, aunt Polly." "Yes; but one day Isaac found my money, I kept it in an old tobacco-box, and, just to hector me, he kept tossing it up in the air, till all of a sudden it fell through a crack in the floor; and that was the last I saw of it." "What a naughty, careless boy!" After Dotty had said this, she blushed. "Naughty, careless boy!" echoed Flyaway.
But, in the name of all that's wondherful, how does it come to pass that that red ruffian has sich authority over Sarah M'Gowan as to make her fetch me the very thing I want? that tobacco-box; an' at sich a place, too, an' sich an hour! An' yet he says that she doesn't like a bone in his skin, which I b'lieve!
Having accomplished this, Pierre took a flint and steel out of a gaily ornamented pouch which depended from his waist, and which went by the name of a fire-bag in consequence of its containing the implements for procuring that element. It might have been as appropriately named tobacco-box or smoking-bag, however, seeing that such things had more to do with it, if possible, than fire.
The shrewd Bunting saw that it was not a favourable moment for renewing the conversation; he therefore suffered his horse to fall back, and taking a quid from his tobacco-box, was soon as well entertained as his master.
"All right," answered Mat in his gruffest bass tones, handing to the little man the tin tobacco-box. "We said to-morrow evening, didn't we?" continued the squalid shopman. "Not later than six," added Mat. "Not later than six," repeated the other, shutting the door softly as his customer walked away northward this time to seek the fresh air in good earnest.
Greeted with the respect due to the owner of Cocknage Gardens, a sporting resort where all the best foot-racing and rabbit-coursing took place, he accepted it in somnolent indifference, and immediately took off his coat and sat down in cotton shirt-sleeves. Then he pulled out a red handkerchief and his tobacco-box, and set them on the table. Big James motioned to Edwin.
"His flask and tobacco-box I took away," said I. "He had nothing of consequence besides." "They must go into the common-chest," cried he; "'tis share and share, you know." "Ay," said I, "but what I found on Mendoza is mine by the highest right under heaven. If I had not taken the things, they would now be at the bottom of the sea." "What of that?" cried he savagely.
This long consumer, who had probably never done an honest day's-work in his life, sprung the lid of a Chinese tobacco-box and with thumb and forefinger forked out a wad like a small haycock. Holding this reinforcement within supporting distance he fired away with renewed confidence.
The chief will want to make an inventory." "This is a very choice cigar." "Leave it there, and notify the chief." Two minutes later Mon. Dudouis examined the contents of the drawer. First he discovered a bundle of newspaper clippings relating to Arsene Lupin taken from the `Argus de la Presse, then a tobacco-box, a pipe, some paper called "onion-peel," and two books.
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