And after a time, when he proved shockingly distrustful of me and most unchivalrous, he agreed grudgingly to try to steal thehamper from the house.
However, when I said faintly that I had had no dinner, and that I was sure I should swoon if I did not have the hamper brought from the Hall at once, he cooled somewhat.
They put themselves into negligees and the hands of their maids at once, and were still dressing when Ernestine and I, the advance guard, started with the hamper of cold supper at half after six.
Well, after Bagsby left, and I had examined the supper in the hamper and lighted more candles in the drawing-room, I began to wish we had not cut the telephone wire so soon.
For the same reason, the small sails are sent on deck, together with as much top hamper as can readily be moved.
It takes courage to achieve happiness, initiative to emancipate one's self from a morality that begins to hamper and bind.
And yet without me, without my profession he was a helpless giant, at the mercy of those alert and vindictive lawmakers who sought to restrain and hamper him, to check his growth with their webs.
Instead, he turned to the lunch hamper and opened it.
At about seven they dined on the wing, from the hamper which, with Liane's jewel case in its leather disguise of a simple travelling bag, constituted all the limousine's load of luggage.
Nevertheless when the lunch hamper was opened, there was such a display of food as might be seen on a similar occasion at home.
Would you rather we took a hamper along or shall we depend upon a tea-house or inn or something like that?
Wherefore should a woman hamper a man in his wars?
Here are no Tables of Karl the Miller's Son to hamper our liege mistress.
How or where the rat had gained access to our hamper it was impossible to say, but he had made no bad use of his time, and both wings of the cold duck had flown, while the tart was considerably mangled.
We had with us a hamper carefully packed, before parting, with a cold duck, some cold meat, a tart, etc.
Except a hamper of home-made preserves which came to us from Myst Court every Christmas, we had little to remind us of a relative who shut herself up from her family and friends for fifty long years.
You seem to like the change," said the cook to Susan, who was humming cheerfully to herself as she knelt beside a hamper which she was packing with china.
The tariff on iron, for example, can only hamper every new industry by increasing the cost of machinery, and must especially hinder navigation and shipbuilding, in which we have made such progress.
When they deposited the basket in the room, Mere Clouet's big clothes-hamper was already standing there, having been brought in while they were upstairs.
They shoved the huge hamper into the carriage, slammed the door carelessly on Citizeness Clouet and Yvonne, and called to the driver: "Number six hundred and seventy Rue de Lille!
Peep into that corner," shoo sed, as shoo raised th' hamper lid.
The Vernons repaired to their rooms and feasted on the contents of the hamper prepared for the picnic, the father and mother abeam with pride and satisfaction, Dan obviously filled with content, and dear old Hannah full of quips.
They reject me with disdain, declare that I should only render them commonplace, and that "rich and rare were the gems she wore" would never have got across Ireland safe if she had a great strapping brother to hamper her.
The surface of this long sheet-iron cigar no longer offered a single protrusion that could hamper its maneuvers.
The Nautilus's men attached to each fish's tail a ring that was big enough not to hamper its movements, and to this ring a long rope whose other end was moored on board.
Virginia and Maude and the Colonel in the Carvel carriage, and behind Ned, on the box, is their luncheon in a hamper Standing up, the girls can just see the nodding plumes of the dragoons far to the front.
He picked up the hamper and disappeared into the place of retention, while the Celebrity threw the bottle into the brush.
Obviously we must use every contrivance we can to mend these rents, by promoting the organization of employments in any way that will not hamper progress in economic production.
It cannot be used to embitter race against race, and to hamper that process of world unification which it is their pious purpose to delay.
They hamper the development of the new order, but they cannot altogether prevent the emergence of new men.
The child's funny little perversions of speech are really genuine attempts to say the right word, and we simply cause trouble and hamper development if we give back to the seeking mind its own blunders again.
On the 1st of December I saw Palmer there, and he gave me the direction to put on a hamper containing game.
The Doctor hurried towards him; she followed at a little distance, fearing lest she should hamper him.
All his new resolution not to hamper her with the burden of a blind and lonely-hearted man was back to the full.
His grooms took an indication: the hamper was unfastened; sandwiches were handed.
They had a hamper and were independent of stoppages for provision, he informed her.
But he was under a hamper of ropes that strung him down as if he were in a coop, and his dulled senses failed for a moment to tell what ailed him.
All right," replied the bailiff; "then let nothing but the porter and hamper out.
Some time after, a sturdy porter presented himself with the load, and the turnkey called to his master that a porter with a hamper for Mr. Phillips had come.
Land an English regiment to occupy a menaced point on some distant foreign shore, and within the week "the shop" appears, though it be but a booth with a hamper of porter and a dozen pickle pots for sole stock in trade.
