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Laning a workbox. I know she'd like one." In the meantime Dick was looking at some fancy belt buckles and hatpins. He knew Dora liked such things. "I'll just take Songbird's advice and get the best I can and send them," he told himself.
A tall, blond young man, pale and slight, with tolerable manners and seemingly rather shy, although he had just spent eight or ten thousand francs over his allowance in Paris, where he had been sent to study law, now came forward and kissed Eugenie on both cheeks, offering her a workbox with utensils in silver-gilt, mere show-case trumpery, in spite of the monogram E.G. in gothic letters rather well engraved, which belonged properly to something in better taste.
Thomas is full of apologies, declaring that her conscience forces her to tell everything; and yet, between them both, I do not know what has happened." "Miss Snow has probably lost the key of the workbox you gave her." "I have not given her a workbox." "Then the writing-desk. That's what a man has to endure when he will make himself head schoolmaster to a young lady.
Then at last, too late, just when we don't want them any more, when all the sweetness is taken out of them, then they come. We don't want them then," she said, folding their hands resignedly on her little apron. After a while she added: "I remember once, very long ago, when I was a very little girl, my mother had a workbox full of coloured reels.
But alas! the royal exchequer is, as I now remember, locked up in my desk at home." "And my purse is in my workbox," said Henrietta. "So, Fred, I must be beholden to you for the present," said Beatrice, "if it won't quite break you down." "There are more where that came from," said Fred, with a careless air. "Come along, Alex." Away they went.
The table thrown over; that looks like the work of fear; a workbox, with all its implements scattered, only a woman's fear: a mouse might have caused all this; and yet there is something solemn in the simple fact that, for so many years, not a living being has crossed these boards.
We used to know everybody about there," said Mr Morgan, abandoning himself to recollections in a manner most mysterious to his wife. "There is the letter, my dear," and he put it down upon her table, and began to play with the reels of cotton in her workbox unconsciously, as he had not done for a long time; which, unawares to herself, had a softening influence upon Mrs Morgan's heart.
"Now, Vincent, what offer do you make for the letter? Well, we won't tease you," Annie went on as Vincent gave an impatient exclamation. "Another time we might do so, but as you have just come safely back to us I don't think it would be fair, especially as this is the very first letter. Here it is!" and she took out of the workbox before her the missive Vincent was so eager to receive.
With a sigh for the sight of it brought up old memories Miss Bennett lifted the cover by its loop of ribbon, took out a package of old letters, and went downstairs with the box, taking also a few bits of bright silk from a bundle in the chest. "I can fit it up for a workbox," she said, "and I'm sure Hetty will like it."
Alec for the oatmeal diet when she saw a lovely ivory workbox; became resigned to the state of her belt when she found a pile of rainbow-coloured sashes; and when she came to some distractingly pretty bottles of attar of rose, she felt that they almost atoned for the great sin of thinking Phebe the finer girl of the two. Dr.
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