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.
Tottering with weakness, she came forward, and delivered her
basket. It was of full weight, as Legree well perceived; but, affecting anger, he said,
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.
Athos then made him a sign to take up his
basket and to walk on first.
There we sat and stripped the faded leaves and stems from our spoil, making up the blossoms into bouquets to fill our
baskets with sweetness.
"Perhaps," continued Elinor, "if I should happen to cut out, I may be of some use to Miss Lucy Steele, in rolling her papers for her; and there is so much still to be done to the
basket, that it must be impossible I think for her labour singly, to finish it this evening.
To divert my mind, I took up the newspaper which had covered the little
basket of refreshments, and which now lay at the bottom of the coach, blushing with a deep-red stain and emitting a potent spirituous fume from the contents of the broken bottle of Kalydor.
After some search the woman drew from her
basket an old pepper-box, upon the faded label of which the wizard had written with a lead-pencil:
Gentle Cecilia, sitting on the floor surrounded by good things, left it to the ingenuity of others to decide whether the
baskets should be all emptied at once, or handed round
This done, she swept up such fragments of the torn paper in the
basket as had fallen on the floor; threw them back again into the
basket, along with the gum-bottle; fetched the bucket, and emptied the
basket into it; and then proceeded to the fourth and last room in the corridor, where she finished her work for that day.
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.
