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Updated: May 6, 2025
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.
Now, if I only had a light this is my desk, I know, for it's the largest; and I think this is my dressing-box, as well as I can tell by feeling yes, it is, here's the handle on top; and this is my dear workbox not so big as the desk, nor so little as the dressing-box. Oh, Mamma, mayn't I ring for a light?"
She was in the habit on these occasions of restoring to her mother sundry little articles which she confessed to having purloined during the week. I recollect how there used to be a regular little joke at her expense on the subject of kleptomania. How well I remember that little workbox, and its arrangements!
We were all here together; loving each other, sitting in the room where we met every day; my drawing on the table by her little workbox; she was in the chamber upstairs; she must come down presently. Who is this opens the door? I see her sweet face. It was like our little Mary's when we thought she would die of the fever. There was even a smile upon her lips. She comes up and kisses me.
Not for an instant did she dream, of accepting it, and she shrank shudderingly from widening the breach which already existed by a refusal. Locking up the slip of paper in her workbox, she returned the watch to its case and carefully retied the parcel. Long before she had wrapped the purse in paper and prevailed on Clara to give it to the doctor.
This decorative workbox has drawers and compartments, a sliding front facilitating their use. In the same collection there are workboxes overlaid with straw work in geometrical patterns relieved by colour.
He brought out another collection notebooks, papers, bundles of letters dating much further back than his occupation of Moongarr salvage from the wreck of his old home. His mother's workbox; his father's SHAKESPEARE; the family Bible a piteous catalogue. He looked long at the book and the photographs.
He had been fairing on his own account, and had bought a workbox as a surprise for Silla one with looking-glass inside the lid and this afternoon he had put some mounting and a nice lock upon it. He could surely in some way succeed in meeting her and showing it to her so easily and with such a spring the lock went! And scissors and needle case he had put inside.
Here, somehow or other, the things about him did not seem so much absorbed in the past, notwithstanding those untroubled rows of papers bundled in red tape. True, they looked almost awful in their lack of interest and their non-humanity, for there is scarcely anything that absolutely loses interest save the records of money; but his mother's workbox lay behind them.
'Alie, she said, as she trotted down the garden path beside her sister, the sixpence tightly clasped in her hand, 'is there anything I could get for a present for two of my pennies? I want to get some of the toys for myself with papa's three pennies, and I want to get a thimble with one, 'cos I've lost mine, and my workbox is messy-looking.
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