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Celia had brought a whole trunkful of fresh gingham clothes and aprons, and Ailsa could not discover exactly why, until, on the day following her arrival, she found Celia sitting beside the cot of a wounded Louisiana Tiger, administering lemonade. "Dearest," whispered Ailsa that night, "it is very sweet of you to care for your own people here.
"I declare, I never thought before I could eat enough chocolate creams; but they are a trifle cloying." "My dear," said Mrs. Fraser, "if you had not said 'chock full; if you had said 'a great many, or 'a trunkful, or something of that sort." "But I meant 'chock full," insisted Carrie. "I did not mean quite up to the ceiling. I didn't suppose that was what 'chock' meant. Now we know."
Zola was shadowed wherever she went, the idea, of course, being that she would promptly follow her husband abroad. She had, however, ample duties to discharge in Paris. At the same time she much wished to send her husband a trunkful of clothes as well as the materials for a new book he had planned, in order that he might have some occupation in his sorrow and loneliness.
She was one of those old women whose energy seems to increase with age, tireless as a gnat she was always the last in bed and the first on deck, though lying in her bunk half the night reading French novels of which she had a trunkful and smoking her eternal cigarettes.
I woke up possessed with the idea, and after putting on my last really respectable waist and inquiring of myself in the mirror how in the world I expected to visit Henrietta Morgan with such a dreary trunkful of travel-worn articles, anyhow, I went down to the breakfast table with my mind made up. Henrietta left me after breakfast for a hurried trip to town. I didn't go with her.
At the hour set Pansy and Mr. Peaney found a corner table in the little restaurant, and when they had ordered Peaney asked, "Well, what you got on your mind?" "A big farmer from the backwoods with a trunkful of money. Don't know how he got it. Must have sold the family wood lot, but he's got it with him ... and he came down to invest it." "No." "Honest Injun." "How much?"
The moist English air seemed to have deepened the bloom of her cheeks and softened the slight hardness of her virginal features; or else it was simply the inner glow of happiness, shining through like a light under ice. "Wear, dearest? I thought a trunkful of things had come from Paris last week." "Yes, of course. I meant to say that I shan't know WHICH to wear." She pouted a little.
His trunkful of securities, which were eminently saleable at one time, proved to be of fictitious value when "the bottom dropped out" of the Nevada boom; and that silver mine, which he was commissioned to sell in New York, was finally sold for three million dollars! It was, as Mark says, the blind lead over again.
But she found the small oneage interesting, in a quiet way; to make her own bed and mend her stockings Grace had sent her a trunkful of clothing; and on the elderly maid's afternoon out, to help Elinor with the supper. She seldom went out, but Louis Akers came daily, and on the sixth day of her stay she promised to marry him. She had not meant to do it, but it was difficult to refuse him.
"Maybe you think it's fun at thirty years of age with all your faculties intact to own nothing in the world except except a steamer trunkful of the things that Father thinks are necessary!" Very painstakingly on the fingers of one hand she began to enumerate the articles in question.
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