XVI A Rustic Museum That first week Sidney Trove went to board at the home of "the two old maids," a stone house on Jericho Road, with a front door rusting on idle hinges and blinds ever drawn.
Trove counted the money--it was a dollar and a quarter.
Trove sat busy with his own thoughts while Thurston Tilly, warming to new confidence, boiled over with enthusiasm for the far west.
Indeed, Trove rarely came for a talk with Darrel when he failed to discover something new in him--a further reach of thought and sympathy or some unsuspected treasure of knowledge.
Trove had not time to act before they heard a cry for help on the doorstep.
Then Trove went down the rickety stairs and away in the darkness.
He dreaded to tell her," Trove continued; "yet he could not ask her to be his wife without telling.
Trove had missed not a word nor even a turn of the eye in all that scene.
Slowly--slowly, the old man rose, Trove helping him, and put on his cap.
Don't you want to be brought up to date in the treasure-trove adventure?
Treasure-trove became, as one might say, the stock joke of the moment.
The last time we four had heard that note together was on a trip into the heart of the pine-barrens, when we not only identified this bird for the first time, but also found its nest, a treasure-trove indeed.
Although this treasure-trove gained me a fleeting popularity, yet, like all treasure, it was soon gone.
There is something in the very thought of treasure-trove that unsettles the most sane.
It is a story of love and hate, of heroism and cowardice, of treasure-trove and piracy on the high seas, of gaping wounds and foul murder.
With regard to treasure-trove a distinction must be made.
I presented my trophy and treasure-trove to the fairylike Miss Wee-Wee.
I presented my trophy and treasure-trove to the fairylike Miss WEE-WEE, who was so overwhelmed by the compliment that she entreated for it to be cooked and eaten instanter.
From a trove of old papers left by the former owner he had gathered many a story of siege and battle, scandal and intrigue, consummated within its massive walls.
Of course, if the passage is given an uneschatological reference to the Church as we know it, it loses all real meaning and becomes a treasure-trove to the Roman Catholic exegete, and a terror to the Protestant.
And here a party of trim black-headed gulls have collected round some treasure trove left by the last tide.
Elementary considerations of prudence impelled him to publish his treasure-trove with all expedition, and not disclose his design prematurely to one who might possibly take steps to hinder its fulfilment.
Chapter IV Treasure-Trove When Dick passed the crest of the ridge and began the descent toward the fatal pass, his heart beat heavily.
The treasure-trove of happy homes; Whereby the poorest hut becomes A fairy-palace of romance.
Elizabeth flung her treasure trove upon the grass and, springing upon the gate, swung out on to the road again.
He discussed the latest additions to his treasure-trove with him, as they sat by the fire of a night, and speculated with him on their probable origin and value, and the higher he assessed this the more the mate's black eyes glowed.
Surely, even with the law of treasure-trove as bogey before us, such a valuable collection was worth searching for!
As to the fortune, we found the law of treasure trove as elastic as all the others.
