At length, confused by fright and heat, and doubting whether half London might not by this time be turning out for my apprehension, I left the young man to go where he would with my
box and money; and, panting and crying, but never stopping, faced about for Greenwich, which I had understood was on the Dover Road: taking very little more out of the world, towards the retreat of my aunt, Miss Betsey, than I had brought into it, on the night when my arrival gave her so much umbrage.
Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my
box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.
He evidently fears discovery or interference, in the state of helplessness in which he must be, confined as he is between dawn and sunset in his wooden
box.
My good friend," said Franz, turning to him, while Albert continued to point his glass at every
box in the theatre, "you seem determined not to approve; you are really too difficult to please.
He took the tin
box from his brother's hand, and emptied it of the lozenges, returning half of them to Jacob, but secretly keeping the rest in his own hand.
They had passed into the corridor which encircled the row of baignoires, and Valentin stopped in front of the dusky little
box in which Mademoiselle Nioche had bestowed herself, laying his hand on the doorknob.
He had opened his oblong
box, in order to feast his eyes on the pictorial treasure within.
It came at length, however, -- a monstrously big
box of it there was, too -- and as the whole party were in excessively good humor, it was decided, nem.
The club
box, therefore, waited in visible suspense while Mr.
A moment later she had appeared with a red flat
box in her hand.
That evening the Rostovs went to the Opera, for which Marya Dmitrievna had taken a
box.
When I take a note in A, I drop its into the A
box, and so on, much to the satisfaction of David, who likes to drop them in for me.
