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...hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well ma... ...kes a background for the falling rain. The view from my Lady Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The v... ...ks so. Yet every dim little star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, ha... ... the door. As long as I could see the house, I looked back at it from the window through my tears. My godmother had left Mrs. Rachael all the little ... ...ldly said, “At all events, cousin John, I will thank you for the compan ion you have given me.” I felt as if she challenged him to run away. But he... ...ith brimstone as soon as you had made it. You would have a very mean opin ion of a Manchester man if he spun cotton for no other pur pose. He must s... ...eirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, are the born first ac tors, managers, and leaders, and no others can appear upon the scene for ever and... ...out fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complex ion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a l... ...hen the evening comes, but it may turn out that Mrs. Snagsby is as quiet a manager as he. Jo is very glad to see his old friend and says, when they ar...

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...a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the day... ...uchery, and driving the dusky thrust, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy! Poor bird! the only neighbouring ... ...l must ensure if I turned my back upon the place. The closing of a door or window in the street brought me before the curiosity dealer’s once The Old ... ...ne. Some of them are now rolling in riches, unmindful of their old compan ion and friend, ma’am, others are in the habit of calling upon me to this d... ... tails—both capital things in their way—did not agree together. Jerry, the manager of these dancing dogs, was a tall black whiskered man in a velvetee... ...er, and when he had an opportunity of looking at her unseen by his compan ion, warned her by certain wry faces and jerks of the head not to put any t... ... Shop – Dickens 229 thick knotted stick. The other man, whom his compan ion had called Isaac, was of a more slender figure— stooping, and high in t... ... Shop – Dickens 284 the play, for no sooner was the Devil dead, than the manager of the puppets and his partner were summoned by the single gentlema... ...the outside, that Kit’s last treat had helped to that, and wonder what the manager would feel if he but knew it as they passed his house! When Kit had...

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...ng a naive image of the burgher habitations of the olden time. None of the windows, cased in wood and formerly adorned 4 The Village Rector with carv... ...ing houses, had no depth and derived all its light from the front and side windows. Each floor had two small cham- bers only, lighted by single window... ...y ignorant. He bought mignonette and put the pots on the ledge outside her window; and he returned from many of his trips with rose trees, or pansies,... ... des Vanneaulx, however, wanted to keep her uncle, after the manner of the managers of the Italian Opera, who entreat their popular tenor to wrap up h... ...arkable for new and useful inventions in this line. I know it is the fash- ion to say, in speaking of our Ecoles, that all Europe en- 170 The Village... ...sed at Montegnac, were among the first that were ready for the market. The manager of the stud had selected a dozen for the stables of the chateau, an...

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...d. At all seasons and in all weathers, Agathe watched her husband from the window as he walked toward his office, and never drew in her head until she... ...a “trey” in a lottery, and lotteries give no credit to their customers. As manager of the joint household, she was able to pay up her stakes with the ... ...taken to the elegant Palais des Beaux-Arts, which stands near by. From the windows of Madame Bridau’s new abode, a glance could penetrate the depths o... ...e rue Mazarin. After a while, the widow put boxes of earth in front of her windows, and cultivated those aerial gardens that police regulations forbid... ...mous sums, but gave nothing when it came to recovering empire. House- hold managers like Agathe have a plain common-sense which enables them to percei... ...nts for a good deal. T o-morrow, in a couple of lines, we shall advise the managers to let Mademoiselle Florentine dance a particular step, and so for... ...ess to Sunday- school, and were as scrupulously prepared for their commun- ion: the schools were kept up all the same; mass was said; the taxes were p...

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...m the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse with windows in the sides; having at the upper American Notes – Dickens 5 end ... ... time it had expanded into something quite bulky, and almost boasted a bay window to view the sea from. So we went upon deck again in high spirits; an... ... remember one but it was clean and neat, and had its plant or two upon the window sill, or row of crock ery upon the shelf, or small display of colou... ... signed occasionally with rather fine names, but this is an American fash ion. One of the provinces of the state legislature of Massachusetts is to a... ... been v ery long in these parts, and looks sorrowfully round for a compan ion pair of top—boots, which he may traverse the city half a year without m... ...these bridges sits a man: dozing or reading, or talking to an idle compan ion. On each tier, are two opposite rows of small iron doors. They look lik... ... Dickens 192 The public house was so very clean and good a one, that the managers of the jaunt resolved to return to it and put up there for the nig...

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...ngs, as though the West End, with its electric lamps, its vast plate-glass windows all shining yellow, its care- fully-finished houses, and tiny live ... ... nature of an approaching physical dis- comfort—a tight shoe or a draughty window. She was already unnaturally braced to receive them. As she occu- pi... ...another came, more percep- tible. Lights slid right across the uncurtained window. The ship gave a loud melancholy moan. “We’re off!” said Mr. Pepper.... ...avels. I must 42 The Voyage Out say I find it hugely amusing. There’s the manager of the line—called Vinrace—a nice big Englishman, doesn’t say much—... ...s evidently the haunt of youth. Signor Rodriguez, whom they knew to be the manager of the hotel, stood quite near them in the doorway surveying the sc... ...rs. Flushing on the ground that her orange plume did not suit her complex- ion, that she spoke too loud, that she crossed her legs, and finally, when ... ...to despair, that it seemed necessary to confront it with some stable opin- ion which naturally became dark as well as stable. Per- haps Mrs. Ambrose h... ...d what he had said. “Now, Nurse,” he whispered, “please tell me your opin- ion. Do you consider that she is very seriously ill? Is she in any danger?”...

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...t—well, if he had timed his arrival in accord with the prima donna’s stage-manager he could not have entered the Academy at a more significant moment ... ...ns whenever, by word or glance, he persuasively indicated the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing. “T... ...nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-fourth Street, or in having French windows that opened like doors instead of sashes that pushed up. Every one ... ...he frivolous upholstery of the Second Empire. It was her habit to sit in a window of her sitting-room on the ground floor, as if watching calmly for l... ...et the Countess Olenska,” in accordance with the hospitable American fash- ion, which treats strangers as if they were royalties, or at least as their... ...d they were, nor what a liberty the Duke had taken in bringing his compan- ion—and to do him justice, as Archer perceived, the Duke 56 The Age of Inn... ...al calling, and taken a sub-editorial job on a women’s weekly, where fash- ion-plates and paper patterns alternated with New England love-stories and ...

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... but I cannot help it. I thought I should have fallen out of the staircase window as I came down from seeing dear Fanny, and that tiddy ickle sing.’ T... ...one?’ asked Mr Dombey. The Doctor shook his head. ‘We can do no more.’ The windows stood open, and the twilight was gathering without. The scent of th... ... the discus- sion at that point. Mrs Chick then walked majestically to the window and peeped through the blind, attracted by the sound of wheels. Mr C... ...e morning, that but for the incessant promptings of her black-eyed compan- ion, she would have abandoned all thoughts of the expedi- tion, and formall... ...I think it’s Mr Carker,’ said Walter. ‘Carker in our House. Not Carker our Manager, Miss Dombey—the other Carker; the Junior -Halloa! Mr Carker!’ ‘Is ... ...ed over his head, and though his brother (younger than he is), is our head Manager, you would be as much puzzled about him as I am.’ As Florence could... ...quencher to any number of candles. She was generally spoken of as ‘a great manager’ of children; and the secret of her management was, to give them ev... ...n, and noth- ing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fash- ion that came in with our first garments, and will last un- changed until o... ...s with her fan, and showing her false teeth, set off by her false complex- ion, ‘in the garden of what’s-its-name ‘Eden, I suppose, Mama,’ interrupted...

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...ng to hold his stirrup or take his horse, D’Artagnan spied, though an open window on the ground floor, a gentle- man, well-made and of good carriage, ... ...he stranger looked at him again with a slight smile, and retiring from the window, came out of the hostelry with a slow step, and placed himself befor... ...the per- sons with whom he had been talking, and who still remained at the window. D’Artagnan, seeing him approach, drew his sword a foot out of the s... ...n more than anyone. “What would you have?” said the Musketeer. “This fash- ion is coming in. It is a folly, I admit, but still it is the fash- ion. Be... ...r,” said Athos. “ And yet,” said Aramis, “I am somewhat of Porthos’s opin- ion.” “Is the king accustomed to give you such reasons? No. He says to you ... ...key held the saddlehorses. All at once great cried resounded in the pavil- ion, and a woman came to the window, and opened it, as if to throw herself ... ...rsedealer has robbed me of fifty louis, at least. Ah, you fellows are good managers! You ride on our lackey’s horses, and have your own gallant steeds...

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...m for at least a month to come. Look at that snow drift sweeping past the window! Are there any figs ripe, do you think? Have the pineapples been gat... ...t what inclemency might rage and roar on the other side of our illuminated windows. A yet sultrier warmth was bestowed by a goodly quantity of peat, w... ...nd of Zenobia’s fragrant tea. “I hope,” said I, at last, “that our blazing windows will be visible a great way off. There is nothing so pleasant and e... ...s sympathy is the only bond. Destiny, it may be,—the most skilful of stage managers,—seldom chooses to arrange its scenes, and carry forward its drama...

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...eviot, he was benighted and lost his way. “A light, glimmering through the window of a large waste barn, which had survived the farm-house to which it... ...gh, with a front like a grenadier’s cap, having in the very centre a round window, like the single eye of a Cyclops, two windows on each side, and a d... ...ponded with the gran- deur of the exterior. On the one side ran a range of windows lofty and large, divided by carved mullions of stone, which had onc... ...h creature he chose to make a favourite, in despite of all taste and opin- ion; and I remember one instance which he alleged, of what he called Brown’... ... practices abstractedly , was a circumstance which, according to his opin- ion, ought in no respect to interfere with his now using his experience in ... ...by Lucian, that while a troop of mon- keys, well drilled by an intelligent manager, were perform- ing a tragedy with great applause, the decorum of th... ...is cautious resolution to suffer Sir Robert Hazlewood to be the ostensible manager of the whole examination, looked down upon the table, and bus- ied ... ...e, is, when an individual gives such information to the proprietor, or his managers, as to occasion the rent of his neighbour’s farms being raised, wh...

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...ly pieced itself together, at length rises, supports his trembling frame upon his arms, and looks around. He is in the meanest and closest of small ro... ...ernoon, and he was very shivery.’ They all three look towards an old stone gatehouse crossing the Close, with an arched thoroughfare passing beneath i... ...e, in the pile close at hand. ‘Is Mr. Jasper’s nephew with him?’ the Dean asks. ‘No, sir,’ replied the Verger, ‘but expected. There’s his own solitary... ... Mr. Grewgious sit and write by his fire. A pale, puffy-faced, dark-haired person of thirty, with big dark eyes that wholly wanted lustre, and a dissa... ...ht as good for such or such speech-making hits, so very much after the manner of the sporting publicans, that the intended Resolutions might have been...

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... billowy upheaval of vivid green foli- age, a rifle-shot removed, rises the huge ruin of Heidelberg 9 A Tramp Abroad Castle, [2. See Appendix B] with... ...d to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable while listening to the soothing patter of the rain against the b... ...; there were white caps, green caps, blue caps, red caps, and bright-yellow ones; Mark Twain 20 so, all the five corps were present in strong force. ... ...hread-like streams of water can be caused to descend; and 47 A Tramp Abroad in case of need, this discharge can be augmented to a pour- ing flood. Am... ...erest rose higher and higher; it developed into enthusiasm. He cried out: “It is very, very good, indeed! But I will have real rain! Turn on the water... ...er been produced in any theater was at last over, the King’s approbation was measureless. He cried: “Magnificent, magnificent! Encore! Do it again!” B... ... the Alps had ever been tried before. I said no, I had not heard of an instance. Then, in his opinion, it was a matter of considerable gravity; in his...

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...AT EIGHT O’CLOCK in the inner vestibule of the Audito- rium Theatre by the window of the box office, Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and thei... ...Wessels: “By the way, Aunt Wess’; look at that man there by the box office window, the one with his back towards us, the one with his hands in his ove... ..., devoting himself more 16 The Pit especially to the designing of stained windows. In this, his talent was indisputable. But he was by no means de- p... ...he Board of Trade building. He talked over a few business matters with the manager of his real estate office, wrote an unim- portant letter or two, si... ...t of a bank watched the door of the private office co- vertly; the traffic manager of a railroad exchanged yarns with a group of reporters while await...

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...ickwick burst like another sun from his slum bers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath. Goswell Street was at his fe... ...mily off—shocking, shocking! Looking at Whitehall, sir?— fine place—little window—somebody else’s head off there, eh, sir?—he didn’t keep a sharp look... ... walked from its foundation, and stationed itself opposite the coffee room window, Mr. Winkle’s surprise would have been as nothing compared with the ... ...hat there were present, not only Mr. T upman and their stage coach compan ion of the preceding day, but another stranger of equally sin gular appear... ...ted little man. A second roar. ‘He has kissed another,’ gasped the excited manager. A third roar. ‘He’s kissing ‘em all!’ screamed the enthusiastic li... ...ecious rascal?’ ‘I know that,’ said Job T rotter, turning upon his compan ion a countenance of deep contrition, and groaning slightly, ‘I know that, ... ... winking—a feat which considerably advanced him in Mr. Weller’s good opin ion. Mr. Weller having transacted a similar piece of business on his own ac...

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...lats. There is a narrow staircase clinging to the wall, queerly lighted by windows which mark its ascent on the outer wall, each landing being indicat... ... also of painted wood, and covered with the same cotton print of which the window-curtains were also made; a gray wall-paper sprigged with flowers bla... ...site hat perched on the water-jug, a T ernaux shawl stopping a hole in the window, a handsome gown hanging from a nail; a little hard sofa, with no cu... ...1811. “What has become of old Canquoelle?” one or another would ask of the manageress at the desk. “I quite expect that one fine day we shall read in ... ...b, and fling- ing the reins to his servant. He had the dead-white complex- ion which a life in the “world” gives to diplomates, was dressed in blue cl... ...s al- ways a stage-box to be had ten minutes before the curtain rises. The managers keep it for themselves, unless it happens 186 Scenes from a Court... ...hey were very much pinched while the father was alive. But for Kolb, their manager, and Ma- dame Kolb, who is as much attached to them as her hus- 23... ... have no clashing, monsieur,” he said. “In a few words I give you my opin- ion—Those who have just murdered the father have also ruined the daughter.”... ...ne; she flew. A physician may explain how it is that these ladies of fash- ion, whose strength never finds employment, reveal such powers in the criti...

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...he nearer parts of the marsh were laced and lit by ditches and canals. The window at which I worked looked over the skyline of this crest, and it was ... ...which I worked looked over the skyline of this crest, and it was from this window that I first set eyes on Cavor. It was just as I was struggling with... ...I could stand it no longer, and so soon as he appeared I opened the french window, crossed the verandah, and directed myself to the point where he inv... ...ter to the New Romney Bank—the nearest, the waiter informed me—telling the manager I wished to open an account with him, and requesting him to send tw... ... not only colossally greater in size than ants, but also, in Cavor’s opin- ion at least, in intelligence, morality, and social wisdom are they colossa...

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...de, through which I could easily creep. On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side,... ...dvised me to “acquire, by my patience and discreet behaviour, the good opin ion of himself and his subjects.” He desired “I would not take it ill, if... ... that all people should keep in their houses, at their own peril. The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I though... ...nto the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and disco... ... in matters of state, and passionately disputing every inch of a party opin ion. I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathem... ... for making and employing five hundred such frames in Lagado, and oblige the managers to contrib ute in common their several collections. He assured ... ...avels – Swift 166 by a jury of his neighbours.” The second was of an opin ion directly contrary; “to tax those qualities of body and mind, for whic...

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...stical style. The front-door was like a church porch, and the drawing-room windows were gothic. Mrs. Carey , knowing by what train they were coming, w... ... a tiny bed-room that looked out on the drive. Immediately in front of the window was a large tree, which Philip remembered now be- cause the branches... ...d rang the bell for tea. The dining-room, large and well-proportioned, had windows on two sides of it, with heavy cur- tains of red rep; there was a b... ...Carey often stopped at the bank to deliver a message to Josiah Graves, the manager , who was choir -mas- ter, treasurer, and churchwarden. He was a ta... ...o church, and on a very fine one, though many came, few stayed for commun- ion. There were most when it was dry enough to make the walk to church plea... ...ever got a look in with him at the cakes and muffins, for it was the fash- ion to believe that his corpulence pointed to a voracious appetite, and his... ...himself from shouting aloud. They were met at the door of the hotel by the manager, a stout, pleasant man, who spoke tolerable English; Mr. Goodworthy... ...the capital of France was a paradise of the joyously obscene. He asked the manager next morning what there was to be seen that was ‘thick.’ He thoroug... ...235 W. Somerset Maugham years that picture will be dead. It’s only a fash- ion of the moment. No picture can live that hasn’t got something which that...

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...ne-arched bridge, and, looking from this bridge, the stranger will see the windows of the old men’s rooms, each pair of windows separated by a small b... ...lso further from the water which here suddenly bends, are the pretty oriel windows of Mr Harding’s house, and his well-mown lawn. The entrance to the ... ... that precinct, tone and colour, design and form, solemn tower and storied window, are all in unison, and all perfect! Who could lie basking in the cl... ...a little cottage would really do for happiness; besides, he was sure to be manager some day. And Apollo, folding his flute into his pocket, felt that ... ... Mr Harding, ‘I might as well have sixteen hundred a year as eight, if the managers choose to allot it to me; and as I am one of the manag- ers, if no... ...ose to allot it to me; and as I am one of the manag- ers, if not the chief manager, myself, that can hardly be a just arrangement.’ ‘Oh, well; all tha... ...iends, that choice ally that had never deserted him, that eloquent compan- ion that would always, when asked, discourse such pleas- ant music, that vi... ... have been spared! And now, sir, I’ll tell you what my opinion is—my opin- ion is, that we shall not allow you to withdraw this mat- ter from the cour...