part of a small house in the Old Jewry ; and being advisedadviseto alter my condition , I marriedmarryMrs. Mary Burton , second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton , hosier , in Newgate-street , with whom I receivedreceivefour hundred pounds for a portion .
The Widow Douglas she tooktakeme for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer I litlightout .
In the evening my aunt tooktakeme with her to visit the house of mourning .
His hand was still unsteady when he tooktakehis glass from the bartender .
My father , who tooktakethe living of Paleham about the year 1797 , became possessed of a good many of old Mr Pontifex 's drawings , which were always of local subjects , and so unaffectedly painstaking that they might have passed for the work of some good early master .
He ought now to have been at school ; but his mama had takentakehim home for a month or two , " on account of his delicate health . "
Figures darker than the gloom approachedapproachand tooktakeshape , and in the light turned out to be those of a white man and a heavily packed burro .
( when she thoughtthinkit over afterwards , it occurredoccurto her that she ought to have wondered at this , but at the time it all seemed quite natural ) ; but when the Rabbit actually TOOKtakeA WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET , and lookedlookat it , and then hurriedhurryon , Alice startedstartto her feet , for it flashedflashacross her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket , or a watch to take out of it , and burning with curiosity , she ranrunacross the field after it , and fortunately was just in time to seeseeit poppopdown a large rabbit-hole under the hedge .
He tooktakedown a heavy brown volume from his shelves .
From my small medical shelf I tooktakedown the Medical Directory and turnedturnup the name .
Her sister , Miss Watson , a tolerable slim old maid , with goggles on , had just comecometo live with her , and tooktakea set at me now with a spelling-book .
She tooktakedown a jar from one of the shelves as she passedpass; it was labelled ‘ ORANGE MARMALADE ’ , but to her great disappointmentdisappointmentit was empty : she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody , so managed to putputit into one of the cupboards as she fellfallpast it .
Towards the close of the eighteenth century and not long before my father camecometo Paleham , he had takentakea farm of about ninety acres , thus making a considerable rise in life .
Clerks in the express office tooktakecharge of him ; he was cartedcartabout in another wagon ; a truck carriedcarryhim , with an assortment of boxes and parcels , upon a ferry steamer ; he was truckedtruckoff the steamer into a great railway depot , and finally he was depositeddepositin an express car .
The doctor tooktakeup the lamp from the kitchen table and unceremoniously wentgointo the wing room .
He had takentakeme aside one day and promisedpromiseme a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my " weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg " and let him know the moment he appeared .
However , I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolutionresolutionprompted ; but I tooktakemy mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary , and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it , and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it ; that I was now eighteen years old , which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney ; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time , but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out , and go to sea ; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad , if I came home again , and did not like it , I would go no more ; and I would promise , by a double diligence , to recover the time that I had lost .
As we do not disdain to borrow wit or wisdom from any man who is capable of lending us either , we have condescendedcondescendto taketakea hint from these honest victuallers , and shall prefix not only a general bill of fare to our whole entertainment , but shall likewise give the reader particular bills to every course which is to be served up in this and the ensuing volumes .
“ Why , my dear , you must know , Mrs. Long sayssaythat Netherfield is takentakeby a young man of large fortune from the north of England ; that he camecomedown on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place , and was so much delighted with it , that he agreedagreewith Mr. Morris immediately ; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas , and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week . ”
An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm , the nap of his hat was ruffled , a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb camecomein takingtakeit off .
After darkly lookinglookat his leg and me several times , he camecomecloser to my tombstone , tooktakeme by both arms , and tiltedtiltme back as far as he could hold me ; so that his eyes lookedlookmost powerfully down into mine , and mine lookedlookmost helplessly up into his .
CHAPTER I I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS It is a curious thing that at my age -- fifty-five last birthday -- I should find myself takingtakeup a pen to try to write a history .
The little boy , still sleeping , was takentakeaway .
This I tooktakefor a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait .
Then abroad again -- to Rome this time , where he dallieddallywith architecture and painting in turn , tooktakeup the violin , and wrotewritesome ghastly Italian sonnets , supposedly the ruminations of a thirteenth-century monk on the joys of the contemplative life .
A shabby little traveling man , who was just then comingcomeout of the store on his way to the saloon , stoppedstopand gazedgazestupidly at the shining mass of hair she baredbarewhen she tooktakeoff her veil ; two thick braids , pinned about her head in the German way , with a fringe of reddish-yellow curls blowingblowout from under her cap .
She pausedpausewhile our friend tooktakein these things , and it was as if a good deal of talk had already passed .
CHAPTER I I TAKE A COUNTRY HOUSE This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lostloseher mind , deserteddeserther domestic gods in the city , tooktakea furnished house for the summer out of town , and foundfindherself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous .
It would have been a satisfaction to him just then to have been left to himself , and permitted to work on quietly at his profession , and to write his papers for the _ Lancet _ , and to see his friends now and then when he chose ; for Dr Marjoribanks was not a man who had any great need of sympathy by nature , or who was at all addicted to demonstrations of feeling ; consequently , he drewdrawhis wife 's sofa a little farther from the fire , and tooktakehis seat on it soberly , quite unaware that , by so doing , he was putting a knife into his daughter 's heart .
In a moment , however , wisely judgingjudgethat one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another , she tooktakethe baby on her arm , and with a burning blushblush, and yet a haughty smilesmile, and a glanceglancethat would not be abashed , lookedlookaround at her townspeople and neighbours .
As young readers like to know ' how people look ' , we will taketakethis moment to givegivethem a little sketch of the four sisters , who sat knittingknitaway in the twilight , while the December snowsnowfell quietly without , and the firefirecrackledcracklecheerfully within .
Please tell your moral husband that I tooktakehis words deeply to heart , and that ever since my returnreturnto Worcester I have been spending one afternoon a week reading poetry with the inmates of the Female Inebriate Asylum .
On this stairway he had once seenseea manacled free negro shotshootwhile being takentakeupstairs for examination under a criminal charge .
I ateeatthem by two or three at a mouthful , and tooktakethree loaves at a time , about the bigness of musket bullets .
So soon as I was well enough I trekkedtrekdown to the Diamond Fields , soldsellsuch ivory as I had , together with my wagon and oxen , dischargeddischargemy hunters , and tooktakethe post-cart to the Cape .
PART ONE -- The Old Buccaneer 1 The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow SQUIRE TRELAWNEY , Dr. Livesey , and the rest of these gentlemen having askedaskme to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island , from the beginning to the end , keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island , and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted , I taketakeup my pen in the year of grace 17 __ and gogoback to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first tooktakeup his lodging under our roof .