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Steven's tone was perfectly respectful, and yet Kitty felt that he was laughing at her in his sleeve. "Mr. Luttrell, perhaps, can get you the key, miss." "Yes, I suppose so. Put the box down, please. No, it need not be uncorded until I know whether I shall stay the night." The man obeyed her somewhat imperiously-uttered commands with an air of careful submission. He then went down the dark stairs.
Very early I remember helping my busy little mother, who in the spring of the year uncorded all the bedsteads and made life miserable for the festive bedbugs by an application of whale oil from a capable feather applied to the inside of all holes through which the ropes ran. The re-cording of the beds was a tedious process requiring two persons, and I soon grew big enough to count as one.
'When it was noon they opened the gate, and as we entered in the people came crowding out of the houses to look at us, and a crier went round the city crying through a shell. We stood in the market-place, and the negroes uncorded the bales of figured cloths and opened the carved chests of sycamore.
Halfpenny into a passage where the boxes stood uncorded; and the first dress that came to light was a pretty fresh-looking holland that had been sent home just before the accident, she exclaimed 'Oh, let me put that on. 'Bless me, miss, it has blue braid, and you in mourning for your poor mamma!
Rosalie's own box was already there; her father had brought it up for her before she arrived, and she was pleased to find that it was still uncorded. There were treasures in that box which no one in that house must see! The lady of the house told Rosalie that in a few minutes her supper would be ready, and that she must make haste and come downstairs.
A polite custom- house officer asked me if I had anything contraband in my trunks, and on my reply in the negative they were permitted to pass without even the formality of being uncorded.
She was a young woman, with a sad and resigned face. Beautrelet at once asked her: "You found this volume upstairs, madame, in the library?" "Yes, in a parcel of books that had not been uncorded." "And you read it?" "Yes, last night." "When you read it, were those two pages missing? Try and remember: the two pages following this table of figures and dots?"
"The yellow room was a large airy one, with white painted wainscoting, a huge four-post bed with yellow curtains, and a pretty view from the windows. In the middle of the floor we saw our box standing in all its dignity, uncorded, and ready. Then it was the terrible fact broke upon our minds that the key was left behind.
When the good woman at length left them, they uncorded Donal's kist, discovered the cause of its portentous weight, took out everything, put the provisions in a cupboard, arranged the few books, and then sat down by the fire for "a read" together. The hours slipped away; it was night; and still they sat and read.
"You can use those drawers, and your box can go in the back room. Good-night!" She went away and shut the door, looking wonderfully clean and prim, but depressing instead of cheering me; and as soon as she was gone I uncorded my box, wondering whether I should be able to stay, and wishing myself back at Isleworth.
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