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It was a little box for holding buttons, which I had bought at the village shop, and it had a picture of the old, old Abbey Church at Middlemoor on its lid. Grandmamma has that button-box still, I saw it in her work-basket only yesterday. I was very proud of it, for it was the first year I had saved pennies enough to be able to buy something instead of working a present for grandmamma.
"Aunt Jane," said Kate, "you divine everything: what a brain you have!" "Brain! it is nothing but a collection of shreds, like a little girl's work-basket, a scrap of blue silk and a bit of white muslin." "Now she is fishing for compliments," said Kate, "and she shall have one. She was very sweet and good to Philip last night." "I know it," said Aunt Jane, with a groan.
Sometimes, if I got away early, I would find him already installed, his hat stuck on his gold-headed cane in the corner as it were, all his high authority laid aside, while he regarded with moist eyes the work-basket in which Irma kept her interminable scraplets of white things which I would not have meddled with the tip of one of my fingers, but which the Advocate turned over with an ancient familiarity, humming a tune all the while a tune, however, apt to break off suddenly with a "Humph," and an appeal to the much-enduring lid of the tortoise-shell snuffbox.
"Very well", said Horrocks, and, dropping his hand, turned towards the door. "My hat?" Raut looked round in the half-light. "That's my work-basket," said Mrs. Horrocks, with a gust of hysterical laughter. Their hands came together on the back of the chair. "Here it is!" he said. She had an impulse to warn him in an undertone, but she could not frame a word.
The governess drew a pocketbook out of her work-basket, and, examining the contents, said: "About three hundred pounds sterling, or seven thousand five hundred francs." "That is very little," said Clary. "We have besides bills of exchange to the amount of one hundred thousand francs." "What may be the time now?" "Nearly ten o'clock, Clary." "Well, then, please have our horses ready."
We have privately climbed to the summit of the clothes-press, we have surreptitiously invaded the nurse's own private work-basket, lured by disappointing lumps of wax and fragments of rhubarb-root; but we did not find it. We believe in its existence none the less.
I was glad to hug and kiss him. He takes care of sixty little blind girls and seventy little blind boys. I do love them. Little blind girls sent me a pretty work-basket. I found scissors and thread, and needle-book with many needles in it, and crochet hook and emery, and thimble, and box, and yard measure and buttons, and pin-cushion. I will write little blind girls a letter to thank them.
Yeobright's work-basket, and at Thomasin's word her aunt reopened it, and silently read for the tenth time that day: What is the meaning of this silly story that people are circulating about Thomasin and Mr. Wildeve? I should call such a scandal humiliating if there was the least chance of its being true. How could such a gross falsehood have arisen?
They had it in mind to speak at once when the time came; neither Captain Crowe nor Captain Shaw felt that he could do himself or his feelings any justice in a letter. On a rainy autumn afternoon, Mrs. Lunn sat down by her front window, and drew her wicker work-basket into her lap from the end of the narrow table before her. She was tired, and glad to rest.
He stood far back from the strip of open window that showed beneath the green blind, craning forward to see into the garden the trees, their knotted trunks, and then, as he stole nearer, a flower-bed, late roses, geraniums, calceolarias, the lawn and yes, three wicker chairs, a footstool, a work-basket, a little table on the smooth grass in the honey-coloured sunshine; and Sheila sitting there in the autumnal sunlight, her hands resting on the arms of her chair, her head bent, evidently deeply engrossed in her thoughts.
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