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... biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and ches...

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..., walking from Bramblehurst rail- way station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot... ... staggered into the “Coach and Horses” more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. “A fire,” he cried, “in the name of human charity! A room... ...d Hall how his aunt at Hastings had been swindled by a stranger with empty portmanteaux. Altogether he left Hall vaguely suspicious. “Get up, old girl...

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... poem. Humpty Dumpty’s theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all. For instan... ...est! But the danger was past—they had landed at last, With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags: Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with...

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...as steering, a thing not usual; by his side there sat a passenger; and the men gave way with difficulty, being hampered with near upon half a dozen po... ... or rather (since I am addressing so great a pre- cision) it is so I have curtailed my own. Come now, pick up that and that” -indicating two of the po... ... His tone was so cutting that I managed to do as he bid by a sort of instinct, my mind being all the time quite lost. No sooner had I picked up the po... ...conscious of the burthen; being swal- lowed up in the monstrosity of this return, and my mind flying like a weaver’s shuttle. On a sudden I set the po... ...f anger and despair. It was dark under the trees, and I walked before me and forgot what business I was come upon, till I near broke my shin on the po... ...tered the dead man’s room, a horror of solitude weighed upon my mind. To my extreme surprise, it was all in the disorder of departure. Of his three po... ...d. It can never be verified, as I say; but as I thought of it that morning among his baggage, the thought was sweet to me like honey. Into the open po... ... mathematics, far beyond where I have 101 Robert Louis Stevenson studied: these were what I observed with very mingled feel- ings. But in the open po... ...ut it was also possible he might not. And in this latter case I was de- termined to have the means of some defence. One after another I carried his po...

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...y dressing case, and Mr. Greene’s port- manteau. Mr. Greene, where is your portmanteau?” 14 The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box The boatman whom she ... ...ere in the boat, as also were all the packages. Then I fol- lowed them, my portmanteau having gone down before me, and we pushed off for Bellaggio. Up... ...d not be able to leave Bellaggio on the following morning. I had opened my portmanteau when I first ar- rived, leaving it open on the floor as is my w... ...cess which was intended to do for a dressing-room, and had there spread my portmanteau open upon some table or stool in the corner. It was a convenien... ...o to Como. I swear that the thought struck me that I might as well take my portmanteau with me, and cut and run when I got there. The Greenes were not... ...to this I assented. I went into my own room, and put all my things into my portmanteau, for according to the custom, which is invariable in Italy when... ...re from their presence, when the Boots came into the room. “I’ll leave the portmanteau till to-morrow morning,” said he. “All right,” said I. “Because... ...eir steps were following me. I rushed to the inner recess, pulled down the portmanteau, which still remained in its old place, tore away my own carpet... ...rom that day to this. As I stood upon the beach the next morning, while my portmanteau was being handed into the boat, I gave the Boots five zwanziger...

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...uard got into it, and the traveller looked into it. “Those two large black portmanteaus in the corner where your light shines. Those are mine.” “Name ... ...estion. “Oh! My thoughts were not here for the moment. Yes. Yes. Those two portmanteaus are mine. Are you a Porter?” “On Porter’s wages, sir. But I am... ...ctory and the face of the earth, leaving nothing of it but its name on two portmanteaus. “For one must have some name in going about, for people to pi... ...unction there came the thundering in at the journey’s end. Having seen his portmanteaus safely housed in the ho- tel he chose, and having appointed hi...

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..., and in one moment he decided he would go. There was much to be done: his portmanteau to be packed, a credit to be got from the bank where he was a w... ...uaintance. He was speedily ejected from the boarding- house; deposited his portmanteau with a perfect stranger, who did not even catch his name; wande... ... nearly a fortnight more till the perfect stranger could be hunted up, the portmanteau recovered, and John’s letter carried at length to its destinati... ... RETURN B Y A LITTLE AFTER NOON on the eve of Christmas, John had left his portmanteau in the cloak-room, and stepped forth into Princes Street with a... ....’ There was no reply for a moment, and then the door was opened. ‘Get the portmanteau down,’ said John to the driver. ‘Do nothing of the kind,’ said ... ...nd I can’t sleep on the roadside on a night like this—at least, not with a portmanteau,’ he pleaded. ‘Hush!’ said Alan, with his head on one side; and... ...ck.’ ‘No?’ returned Alan. ‘Neither will you, then. Come and let’s get your portmanteau.’ The cabman was paid, and drove off down the long, lamp- light... ... lamp- lighted hill, and the two friends stood on the side-walk beside the portmanteau till the last rumble of the wheels had died in silence. It seem... ...e feeling. When the stillness was once more perfect, Alan shoul- dered the portmanteau, carried it in, and shut and locked the garden door; and then, ...

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...scertain what might be the nature of the Rolla hotel, we took up our heavy portmanteaus—for they were heavy—and with a guide to show us the way, start... ...mbrella and a small dressing-bag, but we ourselves manfully shouldered our portmanteaus. Sydney Smith declared that an Englishman only wasted his time... ...s shop. And then, while we were in our agony, pulling at the straps of our portmanteaus and swearing at the faith- lessness of the boots, up came the ... ..., but I have sel- dom myself taken any notice of it. I have always left my portmanteau open, and have kept my money usually in a traveling-desk in my ...

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...Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo This I accordingly did. “Send my small portmanteau,” I said, “and all my black dress clothes, and shirts, and sock... ...ou young divil,” Jack O’Conor said to Patsey. “I have told him to take the portmanteau over on a car,” said I. “All right; then you’ll find it there o... ... gratified to find that all my things were laid out ready for dressing; my portmanteau had of course come open, as my keys were in my pocket, and ther...

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...st of these, and my business in Fleet Street was to get into a cab with my portmanteau, so to make the best of my way to the Peacock at Islington, whe... ...as to join this coach. But when one of our Temple watchmen, who carried my portmanteau into Fleet Street for me, told me about the huge blocks of ice ... ...helper as a joke at my expense, and was extremely well received), I saw my portmanteau got out stiff, like a fro- zen body; did the handsome thing by ... ...door watching the ostler as he took another turn at the cord which tied my portmanteau on the chaise, when I saw lamps coming down towards the Holly- ...

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...o Colonel Crawley’s house in Curzon Street, but without the carpet-bag and portmanteau, for which he had been sent, and with a very puzzled and odd fa... ...d nothing. “Hullo!” Georgy continued, “there’s Francis coming out with the portmanteaus, and Kunz, the one-eyed postilion, coming down the market with...

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...sk, a wilderness marked with a rain of ink. In another corner a ragged old portmanteau on one of the two chairs serves for cabinet or wardrobe; no lar... ...his eyes, and while he is calling, finds op portunity to steal to the old portmanteau and steal back again. “Run, Flite, run! The nearest doctor! Run... ...ation. “He’s just as dead as Phairy!” Mr. Tulkinghorn (standing by the old portmanteau) in quires if he has been dead any time. “Any time, sir?” says... ... of him.” During this dialogue Mr. T ulkinghorn has stood aloof by the old portmanteau, with his hands behind him, equally 142 Bleak House – Dickens ... ... word or two. Mr. Tulkinghorn says nothing, but stands, ever, near the old portmanteau. Mr. Snagsby arrives hastily in his grey coat and his black sle... ...hether there is anything to help you.” “In the first place, here’ s an old portmanteau, sir,” says Snagsby . Ah, to be sure, so there is! Mr. Tulkingh... ...ace and attitude. There are some worthless articles of clothing in the old portmanteau; there is a bundle of pawnbrokers’ duplicates, those turnpike t... ...ing more?” “Without any; there was,” says the lawyer meditatively, “an old portmanteau, but— No, there were no papers.” During the utterance of every ... ...at he told you of his having taken the bundle of letters from his lodger’s portmanteau?” “That was the time, sir,” answers Tony, faintly adjusting his...

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...; and the next time their servants tie on Behind their carriages their new portmanteau, Perhaps it may be lined with this my canto. And Juan wep... ...in performance and in preparation; And though these lines should only line portmanteaus, Trade will be all the better for these Cantos. Byron’s D...

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...d Richard, looking at his watch. “If I run down to the Dedlock, and get my portmanteau fastened up, and order a gig, or a chaise, or whatever’s to be ... ..., with a great confusion of clothes, tin cases, books, boots, brushes, and portmanteaus strewn all about the floor. He was only half dressed—in plain ...

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... or I am doomed to go. HOMEWARE: The marriage ring, or the portmanteau now! ARDEN: Laugh as you like, air! I am not ash...

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...ge-doors in front of the haberdasher’s; I’d hang about a station, to carry portmanteaus; I’d be a postman. But they won’t look at you; there are thous...

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...d move heaven and earth to revenge his fall, he directed my attention to a portmanteau passably well filled, which he hoped would satisfy the cupidity... ...aved his life. The gratified vanity of authorship induced me to accept his portmanteau and valuables, and to allow the poor wretch to go free. I put t... ...to receive it when taken myself. On issuing from the podesta with Sheeny’s portmanteau and my sword in my hand, I was a little disgusted and annoyed t... ...rescue. 28 Major Gahagan I had, as I said, left the podesta with Sheeny’s portmanteau, and, unwilling to part with some of the articles it contained—... ... the lancer came up, I dropped my sword from my right hand, and hurled the portmanteau at his head, with aim so true, that he fell back on his saddle ...

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... suitable change for those which had been de- stroyed was locked up in his portmanteau at the Hotel de Belle Rue in Brussels! He had nothing left to h...

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... returning to his abbey in company with his high selerer, who carried in his portmanteau the rents of the abbey lands, and with a nu merous train of ... ... and wine, and made him pay for his fare all the money in his high selerer’s portmanteau, and enforced him to sleep all night under a tree in his cloa... ...nging, hey down, ho down, down, derry down: And when they had prayed, their portmanteau he took, And from it a hundred good angels he shook, All o... ... a thief: marry, your hero guts an exchequer, while your thief disembowels a portmanteau, your hero sacks a city, while your thief sacks a cellar: you...

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...EGMUND’S VIOLIN, desired of Helena, lay in its case beside Siegmund’s lean portmanteau in the white dust of the lum- ber-room in Highgate. It was wort... ...lock downstairs struck two. ‘I must get to sleep,’ he said. He dragged his portmanteau from beneath the bed and began to pack it. When at last it was ... ...blankly at him for some moments, un- able to reach the door because of the portmanteau thrust through with umbrellas and sticks, which stood on the fl... ...he smiled suddenly in his direction, without perceiving him. He pulled the portmanteau under his legs, and Helena edged past. She stood by the door, l... ...elf. He had thought of the two ways before. Yet now he was unprovided. His portmanteau stood at the foot of the bed, its straps flung loose. A portman... ... its straps flung loose. A portmanteau strap would do. Then it should be a portmanteau strap! ‘Very well!’ said Siegmund, ‘it is finally settled. I ha...

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...h several dozen more standing in a queue, as at the ticket office of a railway station, before a brilliantly illuminated counter of vast extent. These...