V.b.c.

means 'vide box C,' unless I am greatly mistaken.

He wrote those letters as plainly and clearly as he could against this power of appointment as recited here.
But afterward, with knife and pounce, he scraped them out, as now becomes plain with this magnifying-glass; probably he did so when all these archives, as he used to call them, were rudely ordered over to my predecessor.

A nice bit of revenge, if my suspicions are correct; and a pretty confusion will follow it." The lawyer's suspicions proved too correct.

He took that box to his private room, and with some trouble unlocked it.