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...y dear four of them and Caroline behind the chiffoniere attacking with the poker and when disarmed prize-fighting with her double fists, and down and ... ...ole neighbourhood that it always smells of coal- sacks which might prove a drawback to Lodgers if encour- aged, I says to the Major gently though firm... ...sessed Taxes and Juries and that, and once col- lared a young man with the drawing-room clock under his coat, and once on the parapets with his own ha... ...day which was Saturday and the Major was so good 15 Charles Dickens as to draw up a Memorandum of an agreement in a beau- tiful round hand and expres... ...ter he was found, and which I mean always carefully to keep in my lavender drawer as the first printed account of him. The more the day got on, the mo... ...n’t keep on—him as sweeps the crossings on a round table and don’t want to draw his sabre more than he can help.” Then I under- stood it all and most ...

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...ahlia called her Rachel. They tossed one another their mutual compliments, drawn from the chief book of their reading. Queen of Sheba was Dahlia’s tit... ...ery one moved away from her, whispering with satisfied noddings, wished to draw her in among the groups. She mentioned the name of Mary Burt to her fa... ...e stooped near, that 35 George Meredith she might fling out her arms, and draw the dear head to her bosom. But Dahlia came only to the bedside, witho... ...tion, a brilliant horse- woman, and a most distinguished sitter in an easy drawing- room chair, which is, let me impress upon you, no mean quality. Af... ...they had a tolerable space for the work, when the breakfast-table had been drawn a little on one side. You saw at a glance which was the likelier man ... ...elling and tearing, and I chaff my way through and back clean as a red-hot poker.” Anthony laughed, and rolled somewhat as he laughed. “Come along, si... ...e box—and who would have guessed how stout it was, and me to hit it with a poker and not break it, I couldn’t, nor get a single one through the slit;—... ...I couldn’t, nor get a single one through the slit;—the sight I was, with a poker in my hand! I do declare I felt azactly like a housebreaker;— and no ... ...Dahlia to take the boxes to a carpenter’s shop—not attempting the power of pokers upon them— and count and make a mental note of the amount of the riv...

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...ng the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky. But by-a... ... States?” a San Francisco wine merchant said to me, after he had shown me through his premises. “Well, here’s the reason.” And opening a large cupboar... ...en, stands the Toll House Hotel. We came up the one side, were caught upon the summit by the whole weight of the wind as it poured over into Napa Vall... ...t I was readily promised. But when I mentioned that we were waiting for Rufe, the people shook their heads. Rufe was not a regular man any way, it see... ...arty refused to bring us any till they should have supped. See how late they were! Never had there been such a job as coming up that grade! Nor often,... ...ing is their most congenial business, or, if the occasion offers, a little amateur detection. In tracking a criminal, fol- lowing a particular horse a... ... again, so warily and slowly, and with so much seeming hesitation did he go about. He lay long in bed in the morning – rarely indeed, rose before noon... ...puts so high a value on time and money. Sanity itself is a kind of convention. Per- haps Rufe was wrong; but, looking on life plainly, he was unable t... ...this a remarkable example. The sense of locality must be singularly in abeyance in the case of Ronalds. That same evening, supper comfortably over, Jo...

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... (Curtain.) ACT II SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE: Evening of the same day. Drawing-room at Lilly Close. MR. BARLOW, GERALD, WINIFRED, ANABEL OLIVER pr... ...urtsey, Anabel? And I’ll twist my handkerchief. We shall make a Cruikshank drawing, if mother makes her hair a little more slovenly. MRS. BARLOW. You ... ...nt a change of—of— GERALD. Of heart?—Better take mother’s tip, and try the poker. ANABEL. I will. GERALD. Ha—corraggio! ANABEL. Yes—corraggio! GERALD.... ...ing work, I sup- pose. Sit still. ANABEL. Won’t you go? GERALD. No. (A man draws near, followed by another.) CLERK. Good evening, sir. (Passes on.) Go... ...it as anybody. GERALD. Of course. CLERK. Yes—well—good night, sir. (Clerks draw near— there is a sound of loud young voices and bicycle bells. Bi- cyc...

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...me again, and alone, the only per- son in the house awake, my thoughts are drawn back, by a fascination which I do not care to resist, to my own child... ...zier’s son of Bussorah, who turned pastrycook after he was set down in his drawers at the gate of Damascus; cobblers are all Mustaphas, and in the hab... ...t no irreverence to compare in my own mind to my grandfather) puts red-hot pokers in his pocket, and cries “Here’s somebody coming!” or taxes the Clow... ...hame for us—round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. But, no matter for that. We came to the house, ... ..., he saw the same figure, just passing in at the long French window of the drawing-room, opening on the ground. He threw his bridle to a ser- vant, an... ...es. Legion is the name of the haunted German students, in whose society we draw yet nearer to the fire, while the schoolboy in the corner opens his ey...

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... due southwest. “They’re deep—day-vilish deep,” said Stalky. “Why are they drawin’ those covers?” “Me,” said Beetle sweetly . “I asked Foxy if he had ... ...shown him your stuff. He’s always suckin’ up to King. Go and kill him,” he drawled. “Which one was it, Beetle?” Stalky & Co “Dunno,” said Beetle, str... ...s rooms were filled with rats every day we were out. It took him a week to draw the inference,” said McT urk. “He loathes rats. ‘Minute he let us go b... ...he was a new master and wanted to win the confidence of the boys. ‘Pity he draws inferences, though. Stalky went to his study and pretended to blub, a... ... any more than you do what Stalky means, but it’s some- thing. Go down and draw King’s fire. You’re used to it.” No sooner had the key turned in the d... ...l,’” McT urk quoted, pensively boring holes in the mantel-piece with a hot poker. “That’s rather a sickly way of spending an afternoon. Stinks too. Le...

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... sorrow: That one can be happy only where two are; And that our hearts are drawn to stars Which want us not. George Gray I HA VE studied many times Th... ...ty, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers, Hating... ...riage is marriage, And out of respect for my own character I refused to be drawn into a divorce By the scheme of a husband who had merely grown tired ... ... the rights of property, Although by lamp-light, for thirty years, In that poker room in the opera house. And I say to you that Life’s a gambler Head ... ...train in Spoon River. All the houses stood before me with closed doors And drawn shades—l was barred out; I had no place or part in any of them. And I... ...ing down to the river, Which fronts the sun and the south-wind, This plant draws from the air and soil Poison and becomes poison ivy? And this plant d...

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...fortune, guardian.” “It is a terrible misfortune, little woman, to be ever drawn within the influences of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. I know none greater. ... ...l upon the table.” What could they do, did she think? I mildly asked her. “Draw,” returned Miss Flite. “Draw people on, my dear. Draw peace out of the... ... Good looks out of them. Good qualities out of them. I have felt them even drawing my rest away in the night. Cold and glittering devils!” She tapped ... .... We all lived together. Ve ry respectably, my dear! First, our father was drawn—slowly . Home was drawn with him. In a few years he was a fierce, sou... ...r a kind look for any one. He had been so different, Fitz Jarndyce. He was drawn to a debtors’ prison. There he died. Then our brother was drawn—swift... ...was in the area when I knocked, breaking up the lid of a water butt with a poker to light the fire with. Mr. Skimpole, lying on the sofa in his room, ...

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...his brain, but his instincts move in the darkness. Out of that darkness he draws his motives.” “Or fails to draw them,” said Sir Richmond. “Or fails….... ... They are morally denuded. Dreams they hate pursue them; abhorrent desires draw them; they are the prey of irresistible yet uncongenial impulses; they... ...urd. There were entertaining possibili- ties in the prospect of the doctor drawing him out—he him- self partly assisting and partly resisting. He was ... ...he doctor frowned and nodded his head slowly with the corners of his mouth drawn in. For some years now an intellectual reverie had been play- ing an ... ...account I tried to give you of my motives. A lot of it was terribly out of drawing.” “Facts?” asked the doctor. “No, the facts were all right. It was ... ...e fuel and power and life and hope of the world as though it was a game of poker. With all the empty unspeakable solemnity of the male. And treat us a... ...ars of business experience, mitigated only by such exercise as the game of poker affords, had in- tensified an instinctive inexpressiveness. Under the...

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...u’re in love with me, it will spoil everything. It’s funny,” said T ravis, drawing on her gloves. “We’re doing a funny thing, Condy. With ninety-nine ... ... with cigar smoke, and where the si- lence was broken only by the click of poker-chips. At the end of twenty minutes Condy was playing, having borrowe... ...e a pioneer, when you first came out here in the fifties—did you ever play poker?” “I—oh, well! it was the only amusement the miners had for a long ti... ...xquisite pink cheeks. An hour passed. Then two. “No fish,” murmured Condy, drawing in his line to examine the bait. But, as he was fumbling with the f... ...me very gay upon the instant. “Hoh!” exclaimed Condy; “what do you know of poker? I think we had best play old sledge or cassino.” Blix had dealt a ha... ... dealt a hand and partitioned the chips. “Straights and flushes before the draw,” she announced calmly. Condy started and stared; then, looking at her... ...ar of rebuff, reach out his arm and put it about her trim, firm waist, and draw her very close 86 Blix to him, till he should feel the satiny coolnes... ...itself was delightful. There were rows of the officers’ houses, all alike, drawn up in lines like an assembly of the staff; there were huge barracks, ... ...u, gambling is just simple madness. Y ou and I have never played a game of poker yet that I’ve not won every cent of money you had.” “Y es; and what a...

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...sionally be would slide to his feet and go to a blackboard on an easel and draw on that very slowly and deliberately in coloured chalks a dia- gram fo... ...Department, and this my father would supplement with maps and diagrams and drawings of his own. But he never really did experiments, except that in th... ... he described. The class, freed from any unpleasant nervous tension, could draw this still life without flinching, and if any part was too difficult t... ...aw this still life without flinching, and if any part was too difficult to draw, then my father would produce a simplified version on the blackboard t... ...tock enterprises. First one and then several boys’ boarding- schools came, drawing their pupils from London,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London... ...tself; the whole world of politicians is far too like a man who snatches a poker to a failing watch. It is easy to say he wants to “get something done... ...g done,” but the only sane thing to do for the moment is to put aside that poker and take thought and get a better implement… . One of the results of ...

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...ranger, who was already wel- comed by some grosses of prophetic pins, in a drawer upstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arriva... ...sey, un- consciously quoting the second sentiment of the pincushion in the drawer upstairs, but apply- ing it to my mother instead of me, I don t mea... ...her work, 24 David Copperfield Vol. I and looked at me, with her needle drawn out to its thread s length. But were you ever married, Peggotty? sa... ...ps objected to my mother s wear- ing all the pretty dresses she had in her draw- ers, or to her going so often to visit at that neighbour s; but I cou... ...and in the meantime Mr. Murdstone dismounted, and, with his horse s bridle drawn over his arm, walked slowly up and down on the outer side of the swee... ...y hope, said my aunt, shaking her head, that her husband is one of those Poker husbands who abound in the newspapers, and will beat her well with on... ...y Agnes walks on! I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it. It went from me wit... ...aden dread, as if I had had some meaner quality of devil for a lodger. The poker got into my dozing thoughts be- sides, and wouldn t come out. I thoug... ... said Steerforth, beating a lump of coal on the top of the fire, with the poker. Is he as soft as ever? And where the deuce did you pick him up? I ...

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...d disliked himself for dis- liking them. The evening before, he had played poker at Vergil Gunch’s till midnight, and after such holidays he was irrit... ...er. But he was not over-gentle. He waved his hand at poor dumpy Verona and drawled: “Yes, I guess we’re pretty ridiculous and disgusticulus, and I rat... ... soul to loaf in the long library before the baronial fireplace, or in the drawing-room with its deep comfy armchairs, its shaded lamps just made for ... ...s right now. And loaf all day. And go to Gunch’s again to- night, and play poker, and cuss as much as I feel like, and drink a hundred and nine-thousa... ...invented a system of leaving his cigar-case and cigarette-box in an unused drawer at the bottom of the correspondence-file, in the outer office. “I’ll... ... ciga- rettes, and even his box of safety matches; and the key to the file drawer he hid in his desk. But the crusading pas- sion of it made him so to... ...ld farceur who enjoyed dirty politics, business diplomacy, and cheating at poker) 42 Babbitt had only ten per cent., which Babbitt and the Traction o... ...o twenty-one thousand dollars. At the right moment Babbitt snatched from a drawer the agreement he had had Miss McGoun type out a week ago and thrust ... ...large man with hair en brosse, and he knew the latest jokes, but he played poker close to the chest. It was at his party that Babbitt had sucked in th...

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...member the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your ... ...ps of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was be... ...e consented to go on. ‘And so these three little sisters—they were learning to draw, you know—’ ‘What did they draw?’ said Alice, quite forgetting her... ...e again, so she began very cautiously: ‘But I don’t understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?’ ‘You can draw water out of a water well,’ said ... ...draw water out of a water well,’ said the Hatter; ‘so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle well—eh, stupid?’ ‘But they were in the w... ...e Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it. ‘They were learning to draw,’ the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was g...

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...ts, packed too closely together for the light breeze of the imagination to draw through the mass. He was impatient to report himself to his superior i... ...our miles on the deck he was ready to settle himself in his sea- chair and draw from his pocket a Tauchnitz novel by an American author whose pages, h... ...but his appearance gave no sign of these excesses. As re- gards euchre and poker and the other distractions of the place he was guilty of none. He evi... ...uickened than checked by the revelations made to him in Mrs. Bonnycastle’s draw- ing-room. It was a relief to have the creature classified; but he had... ... he played on the curiosity of his little band with the touch of a master, drawing them at the right moment away to see the classic ice-house where th...

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...st have been happy. That she couldn’t help it. Or, at all events, with one drawback. Yes. That he would have allowed. With only one; but that one cert... ... allowed. With only one; but that one certainly involv- ing much. With the drawback of hope deferred. That hope deferred, which, (as the Scripture ver... ...assisting at the increase of great fami- lies, was walking up and down the drawing-room with his hands behind him, to the unspeakable admiration of th... ...ays be a comfort to me!’ Mrs Chick made this impressive observation in the draw- ing-room, after having descended thither from the inspection of the m... ...Dickens As the husband did nothing but chuckle and grin, and con- tinually draw his right hand across his mouth, moistening the palm, Mrs T oodle, aft... ...t bedstead, for the entertain- ment of such genial company as half-a-dozen pokers, and a hall lamp. A set of window curtains with no windows be- longi...

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...o the numerous questions and observations by which she vainly attempted to draw him into conversation. Rose informed me that he never would have favou... ...y of clear silvery blue, with a few red streaks on the horizon, faithfully drawn and coloured, and very el- egantly and artistically handled. ‘I see y... ...in very desperation, to escape my brother’s perse- cutions, endeavoured to draw me into conversation. ‘Mr. Markham,’ said she, her rapid utterance and... ...nd re- store them to the baskets; and Mrs. Graham took her camp- stool and drawing materials; and having begged Miss Millward to take charge of her pr... ... grew wearisome to my soul, and I grew weary of amusing her: I felt myself drawn by an irresistible attraction to that distant point where the fair ar... ...came in to kindle the fire, which was soon effected by thrusting a red-hot poker between the bars of the grate, where the fuel was already disposed fo...

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...w families might be seen in the queer- est old-fashioned little carriages, drawn by their jolly mules and swinging between, or rather before, enormous... ...heir various rooms for study, where some were busy at mathematics, some at drawing, some attending a lecture on tailoring, while others were sitting a... ... of the establishment were made by the pupils; even the deaf and dumb were drawing and reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform ... ...on of a battle. CHAPTER III: THE “LADY MARY WOOD” OUR WEEK’S VOYAGE is now drawing to a close. We have just been to look at Cape Trafalgar, shining wh... ...eirs. I have seen but two or three handsome women, and these had the great drawback which is common to the race— I mean, a sallow, greasy, coarse comp... ...s and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of piston-rods and furnace-pokers it is irresistible; and I think an allegory might be made showing ho...

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...ck, the best bat of the other eleven in a match; and, says this youngster, drawling, soon after the cheers and claps had subsided to business, “Aminta... ...t his term of activity is approaching, or has approached, or, in fact, has drawn to its close. 11 George Meredith “If your estimate, sir, approaches ... ...mortal,” and talk of a true living champion as “no chicken,” and the wordy drawl over “justification for calculating the approach of a close to a term... ...ood aside, and the other let him drive his nose all the compass round at a poker fist. What was worse, Matey examined these two, in the interests of f... ...the school another rumour came tearing through it: Aminta’s aunt had with- drawn her from Miss Vincent’s. And now rose the question, two-dozen-mouthed... ... anec- dotal. Stag, fox, and hare ran before them, over fields and through drawing-rooms: the scent was rich. They found that they could talk to one a...

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... was active in some work. It was not now all law, as it used to be. In the drawer of the old piece of furniture which stood just at the right hand of ... ... father’s instructions, went away to the club. When Mr Wharton reached the drawing-room, he found Mrs Roby alone, and he at once resolved to discuss t... ...g down men’s names for such a work as this, just as boys at school used to draw out the elevens for a cricket match.’ The old stager turned round and ... ...e embarrassed by the fear that they might happen to see each other in your drawing-room.’ ‘It was rather awkward, wasn’t it?’ ‘I have spoken to you no... ...hing that may occur.’ As soon as he heard this he almost resolved to with- draw the concession he had made,—but he did not do so. Very soon after this... ...d the Duke, ‘but I have seen gentlemen of your country very handy with the pokers.’ Phineas laughed, knowing that he had been consid- ered by some to ...