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And when her daughter had prepared the packet she added that she would come back immediately to put the men's soup on the fire.
He returned and sat before his desk, on which a new packet of dispatches was placed.
The manager, who now received a packet of letters and dispatches, wished to read one of his letters aloud.
Jeanlin, who had made himself purveyor, with the prudence and discretion of a savage and delighted to make fun of the police, had even brought him pomatum, but could not succeed in putting his hands on a packet of candles.
'One moment, gentlemen, I am going to send the fatal letter in a carefully sealed packet to the custody of M. l'abbe Pirard.
He had just sealed his packet when the dinner-bell rang; it made his heart beat violently.
Could you not go, as though on your own behalf, and give the gaoler this packet which contains a few louis?
"If the packet is express from the devil," said Sancho, "it must be a very dirty packet no doubt; but what good can it do Master Pedro to have such packets?"
I thought to marry without fighting, for the girl had taken my fancy; but my scheme had a very different result, for as soon as your worship had left the castle my lord the duke had a hundred strokes of the stick given me for having acted contrary to the orders he gave me before engaging in the combat; and the end of the whole affair is that the girl has become a nun, and Dona Rodriguez has gone back to Castile, and I am now on my way to Barcelona with a packet of letters for the viceroy which my master is sending him.
'Snodgrass,' he said, in a voice tremulous with emotion, 'if I fall, you will find in a packet which I shall place in your hands a note for my-- for my father.'
'Give me your cloak.''You have got the packet, my dear fellow,' said poor Winkle.
'The attorney bowed obsequiously, and glanced at a large packet which the gentleman carried in his hand.
'The attorney cast a still more anxious look at the packet; and his visitor, untying the string that bound it, disclosed a quantity of promissory notes, with copies of deeds, and other documents.
But the guard has delivered at the corn-dealer's shop, the brown paper packet he took out of the little pouch which hangs over his shoulder by a leathern strap; and has seen the horses carefully put to; and has thrown on the pavement the saddle which was brought from London on the coach roof; and has assisted in the conference between the coachman and the hostler about the gray mare that hurt her off fore-leg last Tuesday; and he and Mr. Weller are all right behind, and the coachman is all right in front, and the old gentleman inside, who has kept the window down full two inches all this time, has pulled it up again, and the cloths are off, and they are all ready for starting, except the 'two stout gentlemen,' whom the coachman inquires after with some impatience.
'Don't you see?' said Bob.'He goes up to a house, rings the area bell, pokes a packet of medicine without a direction into the servant's hand, and walks off.
"Such paper could not be bought under half a crown a packet.
St. Clair had her lunch, started for the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through Swandam Lane on her way back to the station.
Thus d’Artagnan entered Paris on foot, carrying his little packet under his arm, and walked about till he found an apartment to be let on terms suited to the scantiness of his means.
After the two friends had been chatting a few moments, a servant from M. de Treville entered, bringing a sealed packet.
In one hour after, the ordinance was published in London that no vessel bound for France should leave port, not even the packet boat with letters.
Envelopes at sixpence a packet.
A packet of new still unfolded notes in a paper band fell out.
Calcutta was reached at seven in the morning, and the packet left for Hong Kong at noon; so that Phileas Fogg had five hours before him.
Then, looking straight at him, anxiously, she produced a small packet of letters from her pocket and handed them to him, letters from the man to whom she had been engaged.
Never was anything more honourable than the proceedings upon this procuration; for in less than seven months I received a large packet from the survivors of my trustees, the merchants, for whose account I went to sea, in which were the following, particular letters and papers enclosed:—First, there was the account-current of the produce of my farm or plantation, from the year when their fathers had balanced with my old Portugal captain, being for six years; the balance appeared to be one thousand one hundred and seventy-four moidores in my favour.
And suddenly extending one arm to the northward, he exclaimed:"Here comes the packet from Southampton."
Long and low in the water, with her tworaking funnels and two yellow paddle-boxes like two round cheeks,the Southampton packet came ploughing on at full steam, crowded withpassengers under open parasols.
On a sudden, when he had sat down again, she came softly up behind hisarm-chair, and putting her right arm round his neck she kissed him,while she laid on the chimney-shelf a small packet wrapped in whitepaper which she held in the other hand.
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