Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikhaylovna, stooping, quickly caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom.
Intriguer!" she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the portfolio.
But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip.
"Vile woman!" shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna Mikhaylovna and snatching the portfolio from her.
"Before I open this," I remarked, pointing to the portfolio under my arm, "my mind is made up, sir, about one thing.
The next morning my wife and I opened the portfolio, and read the strange story of George Germaine's marriage.
Would you mind taking great pains not to let the doors bang, and not to drop the
portfolio? Thank you.
He went to the table and fastened up his portfolio, while Dorothea looked at him from the distance.
But Will at last turned away from his portfolio and approached the window again.
He turned away and took his portfolio under his arm.
After a turn of the road, there he was with the portfolio under his arm; but the next moment she was passing him while he raised his hat, and she felt a pang at being seated there in a sort of exaltation, leaving him behind.
Fairfax folded up her knitting: I took my
portfolio: we curtseyed to him, received a frigid bow in return, and so withdrew.
'Let me have its bowels then,' said he; and just as I wrenched the
portfolio from his hand, he deftly abstracted the greater part of its contents, and after turning them over a moment he cried out, -
He tumbled off the seat, opened the locker, and had the portfolio open before him on the folding-table.
What's the good of thinking of it?" He proceeded slowly and reluctantly to replace the Butteridge papers in pockets and portfolio as he had found them.
