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"Your la'ship did not look at this eight and twenty shilling lace," said Mrs. Puffit; "'tis positively the cheapest thing your la'ship ever saw. Jessie! the laces in the little blue band-box. Quick! for my Ladi Di. Quick!"
She slipped cautiously down, a band-box in her hand, and, unbolting the door that opened on the garden, issued out, passed within a few yards of Dodd, and went round to the front, and finally reached the turnpike road. There she found Mrs. Wilson, with a light-covered cart and horse, and a lantern. At sight of her Mrs. Wilson put out the light, and they embraced; then they spoke in whispers.
It was all arranged that evening. Temperance said we must wait a week at least, for her corns to be cured, and the plum-colored silk made, which had been shut up in a band-box for three years. We started on our journey one bright morning in June, to go to Boston in a stagecoach, a hundred miles from Surrey, and thence to Rosville, forty miles further, by railroad.
We were not quite so particular about uniform as we are now." "Then I think the service was all the better for it. Now-a-days, in your crack ships, a mate has to go down in the hold or spirit-room, and after whipping up fifty empty casks, and breaking out twenty full ones, he is expected to come on quarter-deck as clean as if he was just come out of a band-box."
The coming to a town people busy in the markets; light carts and chaises round the tavern yard; tradesmen standing at their doors; men running horses up and down the street for sale; pigs plunging and grunting in the dirty distance, getting off with long strings at their legs, running into clean chemists' shops and being dislodged with brooms by 'prentices; the night coach changing horses the passengers cheerless, cold, ugly, and discontented, with three months' growth of hair in one night the coachman fresh as from a band-box, and exquisitely beautiful by contrast: so much bustle, so many things in motion, such a variety of incidents when was there a journey with so many delights as that journey in the waggon!
There, John, unlock it," tossing him the key. "And now, daughter, get down and see what you can find in it worth having." Elsie needed no second bidding, but in an instant was on her knees beside the trunk, eager to examine its contents. "Take the lid off the band-box first, and see what is there," said her father.
"Did you notice a letter addressed to the Times office?" The servant had prepared himself to cogitate. But he found it unnecessary. "Yes, sir," he replied smartly, "Two." "Two?" repeated Mr. Stafford, dismay in his tone, though this was just what he had reason to expect. "Yes, sir. There was one I took from the band-box, and one Mr.
In London he came to know a young Englishwoman of weak health, but burning like himself with all the ardour of revolutionary propaganda, who would walk from morning till night in the lanes and surroundings of workshops and laboratories, distributing pamphlets and printed leaflets that she kept in a band-box that was always hanging on her arm.
"When you and I get married, love, How jolly it will be! We'll keep house in a store-box, then, Just two feet wide by three! Store-box! Band-box! All the same to me! "And when we want our breakfast, love, We'll nibble bread and chee It's good enough for you, love, And most too good for me! White bread! Brown bread! All the same to me! "Dog-on'd ef 'tain't. White bread's good as brown bread.
"Methinks Queen Mab upon your cheek Doth blend the tints of cream and rose. And lends the pearls which deck her hat And rubies too from off her gown, To be your own fit ornament." Before the Hôtel des Messageries, a young girl, modestly dressed, was waiting for the diligence, with an old band-box in her hand. Marcel, who had also put his head out of the coach-door, looked at her with surprise.
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