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Updated: May 3, 2025
So relentlessly did my partner and I spring into our work throughout the week that by Saturday night we were frazzled wrecks. I found myself in the old familiar work-beast condition, toiling longer hours than the horses toiled, thinking scarcely more frequent thoughts than horses think. The books were closed to me. I had brought a trunkful to the laundry, but found myself unable to read them.
He had brought a trunkful of books to Villa Floriano; but that book had been left behind which could fix his interest now. He tried to write and wondered, in a kind of daze, that any man should ever have felt the faintest ambition to do a thing so thankless and so futile. "I shall never write again.
The islanders are generally glad to be taken; they have better food and easier lives on the plantations than they have in their homes; they gather a trunkful of property such as passes for great wealth in the islands, and when they are sent home, after two years' absence, to their palms and coral shores, it is in full costume, generally in excellent spirits, and always more or less civilised.
"And you should also leave us your name and address, Miss Smith, because, Gott soll hüten, if I should be sick, y'understand, I don't want nobody else to nurse me but you." "Say, lookyhere, Abe," Morris said the following morning, "that trunkful of Paris samples which the custom-house says we would get this morning ain't come yet." Abe clapped his partner on the shoulder and grinned happily.
I was in Sahalin not two months, as you have printed, but three months plus two days. I worked at high pressure. I made a full and minute census of the whole of Sahalin's population, and saw everything except the death penalty. When we see each other I will show you a whole trunkful of stuff about the convicts which is very valuable as raw material.
"Of course, we've got to have the boys," declared Helen. "No fun without them." Mercy had tried to beg off at first; then she had agreed to go, if she could take half a trunkful of books with her. Briarwood girls were as busy as bees in June during these last few days of the first half. The second half was broken by the Easter vacation and most of the real hard work in study came before Christmas.
We will send this one back to him, for the rightful owner will be coming back after it." "Whatever would anyone want with a trunkful of this stuff?" asked Sahwah, curiously. "Probably a traveling salesman," suggested Nyoda. She took the bottle from Sahwah's hand and put it back into its place in the trunk. "One touch of Curline makes the whole world kink," she mused.
What if Joy should bring a trunkful of ornaments? There in the wardrobe were her treasures covering six shelves—her kites and balls of twine, fishlines and doll's bonnets, scraps of gay silk and jackknives, old compositions and portfolios, colored paper and dried moss, pieces of chalk and horse-chestnuts, broken jewelry and marbles. It was a curious collection.
"We bought a fine phonograph in Texarkana one of the best make and half a trunkful of records. We packed up, and took the T. and P. for New Orleans. From that celebrated centre of molasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America. "We landed at Solitas, forty miles up the coast from here. 'Twas a palatable enough place to look at.
Two years had gone, and new arrangements must be made with Harper's. Abbey returned to America with a trunkful of sketches enough good stuff to illustrate several "Herricks." He remained in New York eight months, long enough to see the book safely launched, and to close up his business affairs in Philadelphia. And the Shakespeare country has been his home ever since.
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