"Unpacker" Quotes from Famous Books
... in Dublin for you on Monday morning. There is no telling you how happy I have been getting ready and packing and fussing about the said box for you, flying about the house from the library to the garret. And all for what? When Sophy, whom I beg to be the unpacker, opens it, you will see a certain dabbed-up crooked pasteboard tray in which are four frills for you: I hemmed every inch of them myself, to give them the only value they could ... — The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth |