" There never was such a cross family! " cried Jo, losing her temper when she had upset an inkstand, broken both boot lacings, and sat down upon her hat.
'I have no doubt you are, my friend, ' replied the old gentleman: fixing his spectacles more firmly on his nose, and looking about him for the inkstand.
If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.
He had a curious idea that the inkstand was on the side of him where it was not, and constantly dipped his pen into space, and seemed quite satisfied with the result.
To Jo I leave my breastpin, the one mended with sealing wax, also my bronze inkstand — she lost the cover — and my most precious plaster rabbit, because I am sorry I burned up her story.
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled high with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music.