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Now when it dries a bit 'twill be a fine work-box, and it is for you, Esther," she said; but Esther was watching Mrs. Carew, who was beating up eggs with the pumpkin pulp. "Do you put spices in the cakes?" she questioned eagerly. "How long before they will be baked?" Faith stood holding the yellow pumpkin shell, and looking at her visitor wonderingly.
She enclosed one-and-ninepence in the missive: and so obtained her work-box after all it being, by a miracle, still unsold. It was exactly seven weeks later that is to say, on the evening of June 18th, 1811 that as I stood in the doorway whistling Come, cheer up, my lads, to Mrs. Trapp's tame blackbird, the old Jew slop-dealer came shuffling up the alley and demanded word with my master.
"That cushion for Aunt Ursula will take up such a deal of room. It might be put beside the coachman." "Poor aunt." "Papa, don't let us go to Aunt Ursula," said Baby; "she pricks so when she kisses you." "Naughty boy.... Think of all we have to get into the carriage. Leon's rocking-horse, Louise's muff, your father's slippers, Ernestine's quilt, the bonbons, the work-box.
Only his mother's work-box stood on a chair by the window, and on it a pile of socks belonging to Robert, William's elder brother. Beneath either arm of his chair one of Uncle George's coat-tails protruded. William soon departed on his way rejoicing, while on to one of Uncle George's coat-tails was firmly stitched a bright blue sock and on to the other a brilliant orange one.
I was at work, and my work-box was open upon the table, well stored with threads and spools of all descriptions. Miss Satan cast her hawk's eye into it, and burst out in her usual rude manner "I guess you told me a tarnation big lie the other day."
On our left were two or three superior military officers of the Palace guard, distinguishable only by their diamond ear-jewels. My presents they were trivial: an opera-glass, a few boxes of chocolate, and a work-box were placed before me as I sat down. There were other offerings to right and to left of them a huge bunch of cabbages, a basket of Kohl-rabi, and three baskets of orchids.
The original layer out of that garden, who flourished before lawn-tennis was invented, had perpetrated a prophetic pun by planting a service tree on one side of the ground, and under this sat Mrs Forsyth before a garden table which had wools and work-box on it, for she could not bear to sit idle.
The wine was of his own sending, and so were the China firescreens, and the sandal-wood work-box, and the ivory card case, and those magnificent pink and white chessmen, carved like little sepoys and mandarins, with the castles on elephants' backs, George the Third and his queen in pink ivory against the Emperor of China and lady in white the delight of Clive's childhood, the chief ornament of the old spinster's sitting-room.
They spilt Lady Harriet's perfumes over their handkerchiefs, they looked into all the beautiful books of pictures, they tumbled many of the pretty Dresden china figures on the floor, they wound up the little French clock till it was broken, they made the musical work-box play its tunes, and set the Chinese mandarins a-nodding, till they very nearly nodded their heads off.
A lady's work-box was found in one, and the papers of a slave-ship in another." "Why, how could he get them?" asked Walter. "They had been thrown overboard," said the captain. "Do those big sharks bite people?" pursued the child. "Yes, indeed; they will not only bite off an arm or leg when an opportunity offers, but have been known to swallow a man whole."
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