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...e did you learn all this?’ ‘Just now, on the Mall. Dr. Howlen told me. The manager of the hotel is abusing the Bents, and the Bents are abusing the ma... ...ssioner of Chota-Buldana in the keenest sorrow of his life. Bobby’s little store of papers lay in confusion on the table, and among them a half-finish...

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...ked, and she began a search for Mrs Maidan herself—all over the hotel. The manager said that Mrs Maidan had paid her bill, and had gone up to the stat... ...ld have suited her very badly to have for a husband a clerk in a dry-goods store, which was what old Hurlbird would have made of that fellow. He hated... ...ittle stiff in the joints, but always with enough to talk about and with a store of reminiscences. Then, as his girls began to come of age when they m... ...is must for ever estrange him from Leonora —not be- cause Leonora set much store by the joy of life, but because she was out of sympathy with Edward’s...

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.... To gratify you, I have resorted to the trick of the strolling theatrical manager who advertizes the pantomime of Sinbad the Sailor with a stock of s... ...the family tradition of brave unconventionality by which Ramsden sets such store. But all this is beside the point as an explanation of Ann ’s charm. ... ...e this trip, you and Malone! VIOLET. [vexed] I suppose this person was the manager. MENDOZA. The waiter, madam. I have a grateful recollec- tion of yo...

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...ou have spoken triflingly of—of the volume by which Miss Wilson sets great store, and properly so.” “If properly so, then why do you find fault with m... ... cotton—everything, and to pay him for his own services as superintendent, manager, and salesman. So far he asked noth- ing but just remuneration. But... ...met with a check, as, for instance, when, in his eagerness to increase his store, he made the men manufacture more cotton than the public needed; or w... ...at any time. The pond was only four feet deep, and as Miss Wilson set much store by the physical education of her pupils, leave was given for skat- in... ... felt curious to see how your good breeding, by which I think you set some store, would serve you in entirely novel circumstances—those of a man speak...

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...n I tell you how gay we all are here, and what further dissipations are in store for me. The Arabins, as you supposed, are not of our party; but the P... ...boured head of affairs must succumb to the terrible blows which are now in store for him. ‘Yes, we will throw in our shells.’ And Mr Supplehouse rises... ...en taken to one of them he felt tolerably certain. He would explain to the manager his conviction that he would have to make good the amount, his inab... ... he went over to Barchester, and called there on a certain Mr Forrest, the manager of one of the banks, with whom he as ac- quainted; and with many in... ...whom he as ac- quainted; and with many injunctions as to secrecy told this manager the whole of his story. At first he concealed the name of his frien... ...ncomfortably on one of the ordinary chairs at the farther side of the well-stored library table, while Mark was sitting at his ease in his own arm-cha... ...ted in the pony-carriage, carrying with her such things from the parsonage store- house as were thought to be suitable to the wants of the sick lady a... ...rnoon who should drive up to the par- sonage door but Mr Forrest, the bank manager from Barchester—Mr Forrest, to whom Sowerby had always pointed as t... ...ssibility—a bare possibility—that some disappointment might even yet be in store for them. ‘Do you mean, mamma, that the marriage will be put off?’ ‘I...

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...Apprentices – Dickens 22 theatre, which was opened and shut last week (the manager’s family played all the parts), and the short, square, chinky omn... ... it for his travelling writing case, in which he knew that there was a small store of matches. When he had got one of the matches, he waited before he...

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...en-shut- tered windows each side, and apparently forms the facade of a one-storey house. This house is bigger than it looks, for it slides for two sto... ...ela- tives. She began to feel dull. Didn’t he know the Sindaco or the bank manager? Even the landlady of the Stella d’Italia would be better than no o... ...with a yell. He had only been pinched on the back, but he knew what was in store for him. He struck out, exhorting the devil to fight him, to kill him...

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... of paces from the spot where he died, in Klugen’s Buildings, in the fifth storey right under the roof, in a separate flat, consisting of a tiny entry... ... a steward and his choice fell on Nikolay Sergeyitch, who was an excellent manager and a man of whose honesty there could be no possible doubt. The pr... ...ing to him to meet joy? Do you sup- pose I don’t know beforehand what’s in store for me, or what I shall have to bear from him? Why, he’s sworn to lov... ...dly downstairs. The staircase went from my flat in a spiral from the fifth storey down to the fourth, from the fourth it went straight. It was a black... ...flats. At that moment it was quite dark. Feeling my way down to the fourth storey, I stood still, and I sud- denly had a feeling that there was someon... ...lyosha in a very nice flat, small, but pretty and convenient, on the third storey of a house in Liteyny. But the young prince’ s resources were soon e...

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...live as I have done, but I must retrench where I can, and learn to be a better manager. I have been a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be a... ... not understand. A fine lady in a country parsonage was quite out of place. Her store room she thought might have been good enough for Mrs. Grant to go... ...tes, I think we must raise a little theatre at Mansfield, and ask you to be our manager.” This, though the thought of the moment, did not end with the ... ...reed that it could not be offered to any body else. A little more justice, Mr. Manager, if you please. You do not deserve the office, if you cannot app... ..., Mrs. Price very much more resembled Lady Bertram than Mrs. Norris. She was a manager by necessity, without any of Mrs. Norris’s inclination for it, ...

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...entices when we come to it. There have, an- ciently, been men so excellent managers of their time that they have tried even in death itself to relish ... ... is sufficient for executions, whether of less or greater weight. The best managers are those who can 200 Book the Second worst give account how they... ... so full of so glorious an action. He did not think it lawful, even to re- store the liberty of his country, to kill a man without know- 286 Book the... ...se it falls out in mine, as it does in many other families, that the women store up such little trumperies for the service of the people, using the sa...

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...ys look as if he’s going to burst into tears. He is a clerk in the General Manager’s office at one of the big railways—not a porter! and runs down to ... ... only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the Haymarket Stores. Miss Honeychurch, they trusted, would take care to equip herself du...

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...f a large establishment, where I passed much time, because both it and its managers especially attracted me. It was the great oil-cloth factory which ... ... in the most obliging manner, since he might depend on having a sufficient store of com- plaisance for one week at least. We had scarcely settled down... ...ing fine wares of the foreign merchants at the fair, and laying them up in store. I still remember well that he always visited the Herr von Löwenicht,... ...tian religion the triumph over the deism of the other work. From the great store of papers which he carried with him, he showed me poetical and prose ... ...al power of the Elohim, still a being was wanting who might be able to re- store the original connection with the Godhead: and thus man was produced, ...

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... each rejected tart. On leaving the third saloon the young man counted his store. There were but nine remaining, three in one tray and 7 New Arabian ... ...ir adorned with tropical flowers, to the door of an apartment on the first storey. Here a grave butler in- quired his name, and announcing “Lieutenant... ...g a view of all Paris and enjoying the pure air of the heights. It was two storeys high, with green blinds and shutters; and all the windows looking o... ...ve other views. Waiter!” he cried. The waiter drew near. “Will you ask the manager to speak with me a moment?” said he; and Francis observed once more... ...ifying neglect of public business; and that his Highness now keeps a cigar store in Rupert Street, much frequented by other foreign refugees. I go the... ... a silly and prodigal virtuoso – presented little signs of age. It was two storeys in height, Italian in design, surrounded by a patch of garden in wh...

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...atter means of competency we possessed; I had in my own apartments a small store of gunpowder (keeping it under my own bed, with a candle burning for ... ...leaving be- hind them many of their own slain, and bringing back with them store of broken heads and maimed limbs, received in the unsuccessful onset.... ...rs. Besides the Turks who inhabited it, there dwelt within its walls great store of those of the Hebrew nation, who were always protected by the Moors... ...’s-Or- phans’ Home;” Lady de Sudley was the great projector of it; and the manager and chaplain, the excellent and Reverend Sidney Slopper. His salary...

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...y their taxes. And the King collected so much money that he had nowhere to store it, and his life became wretched. He ceased to form plans, and would ... ... had only seven mares, two cows, and about a score of sheep. He was a good manager, however, and soon began to acquire more. He and his wife worked fr...

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...anne slept through every blast, and the travellers — they had a rich reward in store, for every present inconvenience. The clock struck eight. Had it ... ...em in an instant in their parsonage house; saw in Lucy, the active, contriving manager, uniting at once a desire of smart appearance, with the utmost ...