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Updated: May 23, 2025
I've been almost torn to bits with one and another Miss Fermor's maid bothering for long hair-pins and narrow black ribbon; and Jane Roberts Lady Emily Challoner's maid who really never has anything handy, wanting half the things out of my work-box or I should have been with you ever so long ago. My Lady would be in a fine way if you were late."
We gave the place of honor on the white marble mantel to a porcelain painting Alicia found in a work-box the picture of a woman in gray brocade sprigged with pink-and-blue posies, a lace fichu about her slim shoulders, and a cap with a rose in it covering her parted brown hair.
He came, and in a very few minutes he had talked over Susanna. He brought her a little present, a work-box, which he had bought for her at Littlebath; and though the work-box itself did not altogether avail, it paved the way for civil words, which were more efficacious.
In the mean time Ruby had been helping Aunt Emma unpack her little trunk and she was so impatient to see what was in the mysterious package that Orpah had given her that she could scarcely wait for the trunk to be unlocked. She lifted it out, and laid it on the bed, and untied the string. "See if you can guess what is in it," she said to Aunt Emma. "I guess a work-box," Aunt Emma said.
"Ye see, Martin, lad," he said, while thus employed one day, many weeks after leaving port, "it's a great thing, intirely, to be able to help yerself. For my part, I niver travel without my work-box in my pocket." "Your work-box!" said Martin, laughing. "Jist so. An' it consists of wan sail-maker's needle, a ball o' twine, and a clasp-knife.
The Queen of France must be of queenly blood, even as the last was." "All this may be overcome." "And then there are the reasons of state. If the king marry, it should be to form a powerful alliance, to cement a friendship with a neighbour nation, or to gain some province which may be the bride's dowry. What is my dowry? A widow's pension and a work-box."
Suppose that work-box had been there all the time; suppose she had forgotten; suppose she herself had done this absurd thing, or suppose that she had not, what was to hinder the others from thinking so; what was to hinder a doubt being cast upon her own memory and reasoning powers?
She was before a quaint old house, fresh with paint and covered with vines. There was a long wide lot, grass-covered, closely set with trees, and a barn and chicken park at the back that seemed to be occupied. Elnora stepped on the veranda which was furnished with straw rugs, bent-hickory chairs, hanging baskets, and a table with a work-box and magazines, and knocked at the screen door.
She kept her eyes away from them as she went swiftly on her little bare feet, which had no feeling in them as they pressed the icy floor, across to the mahogany card-table, whereon was set the rosewood work-box. Comfort set her candle on the table, and turned the key of the box with her stiff fingers.
Her brushes, her comb, her bottled perfumery, her work-box, her Bible, a little half-finished sketch, and her soft bed-slippers she had worn when she died, and one of which he held in his hand when Jerrie went in to him.
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