Tom's
basket was weighed and approved; and he looked, with an anxious glance, for the success of the woman he had befriended.
We sat on the ferny bank of the pool and ate of the generous
basket Aunt Janet had provided, with appetites sharpened by the keen spring air and our wilderness rovings.
He took a tremendous jump off the top of the wall on to the top of the cat, and cuffed it off the
basket, and kicked it into the garden-house, scratching off a handful of fur.
Again I thought of abandoning that
basket, but did not.
She got up as she was speaking, and put her hands to her bonnet to adjust it, and then laid hold of her
basket.
Grimaud put his
basket on the ground and sat down with a shake of the head.
She bade me follow her to various shops, and when my
basket was quite full we returned to this house, when you had the goodness to permit me to remain, for which I shall be eternally grateful.
Only Beaudelet remained behind, tinkering at his boat, and Mariequita walked away with her
basket of shrimps, casting a look of childish ill humor and reproach at Robert from the corner of her eye.
My poor little girl would be sadly disappointed, I know, if the
basket was not finished tomorrow, for though I told her it certainly would not, I am sure she depends upon having it done."
"And then I can tell whether that crooked wizard has fairly traded secrets, or whether he has fooled me as wickedly as I fooled him." So she set down her
basket and began fumbling in it for one of the precious powders she had obtained.
The youngest of the two had got into a waste-paper
basket. The eldest had found an old bottle of gum, with a brush fixed in the cork, and was gravely painting the face of the smaller child with what little remained of the contents of the bottle.
The baby in the cradle woke up and cried; the boy in the clothes-basket fell over on his back with the
basket upon him, and was seen no more; the mother wept louder yet and rocked faster; but Kit, insensible to all the din and tumult, remained in a state of utter stupefaction.
