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...arms, Miss Abbot: she’s like a mad cat.” “For shame! for shame!” cried the lady’s-maid. “What shock- ing conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentlem... ...lants; that func- tionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would h... ...d, just now I’m rather sorry.” “Just now! and rather! How coolly my little lady says it! I dare say now if I were to ask you for a kiss you wouldn’t g... ...ing a light entered; another followed close be- hind. The first was a tall lady with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pale and large forehead; her figure w... ... hoped I should be a good child,” dismissed me along with Miss Miller. The lady I had left might be about twenty-nine; the one who went with me appear... ...th, and south— white, broad, lonely; they are all cut in the moor, and the heather grows deep and wild to their very verge. Yet a chance traveller mig...

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...e Hill of Difficulty;” that he should not even marry a beautiful girl or a lady of rank. As Adam’s son he should share Adam’s doom, and drain througho... ...able; by the fire-place, standing as if waiting our en- trance, appeared a lady; she was young, tall, and well shaped; her dress was handsome and fash... ...nt my thoughts to the examination of these pictures. They were portraits—a lady and a gentleman, both 12 The Professor costumed in the fashion of twe... ...y years ago. The gentleman was in the shade. I could not see him well. The lady had the benefit of a full beam from the softly shaded lamp. I pres- en... ... subject; it seemed to me that his face might produce the same effect on a lady that a 29 Charlotte Brontë very piquant and interesting, though scarc... ...s of nature, her moss, her bracken, her blue-bells, her scents of reed and heather, her free and fresh breezes. My house is a picturesque and not too ...

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...w!’ she said, after altering most of the pins. ‘But really you should have a lady’s maid!’ ‘I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure!’ the Queen said. ‘... ...hands about, and make the most fearful faces at the poor King. ‘This young lady loves you with an H,’ the King said, in troducing Alice in the hope... ... ‘Nobody,’ said the Messenger. ‘Quite right,’ said the King: ‘this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you.’ ‘I do my ... ... do!” He said “I hunt for haddocks’ eyes Among the heather bright, And work them into waistcoat buttons ... ...t do it myself, then,’ said the Red Queen, and she began: ‘Hush a by lady, in Alice’s lap! Till the feast’s ready, we’ve time for a na...

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...evious night: ‘“—it will be never to come back, unless he brings me back a lady. This will be found at night, many hours after, instead of me. Oh, if ... ...ss all! I’ll pray for all, often, on my knees. If he don’t bring me back a lady, and I don’t pray for my own self, I’ll pray for all. My parting love ... ...ut quite the contrary. I ought to observe, however, in explanation of that lady s state of mind, that she was much offended by Peggotty s tucking up h... ...ed it to him. David Copperfield Vol. II 49 Unless he brings me back a lady, said Mr. Peggotty, tracing out that part with his finger. I come t... ... to me for my child s blight and ruin, it s as bad. I doen t know, being a lady s, but what it s worse. She changed now, in a moment. An angry flush ... ...reen spot, on a hill, carpeted with soft turf. There were shady trees, and heather, and, as far as the eye could see, a rich landscape. It was a tryin... ...walk with Dora is all in bloom, a field of bright gold; and now the unseen heather lies in mounds and bunches underneath a covering of snow. In a brea...

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...t was a dim, dreamy, reluctant smile that was awakened by the voice of the lady who walked by his side, as if reverencing his grave mood. She was rath... ...phew Maurice had—as they considered—thrown himself away on a little lively lady of Irish parentage, no equal in birth or fortune, in their opinion, fo... ... shall give Miss Eweretta her choice between that and her surname. The old lady looked good-natured, and that matter blew 20 Yo n g e over; but Miss ... ... to sus- pect that some dreadful truth was behind. ‘Perhaps,’ said the old lady, ‘perhaps Mrs. Kendal might make it understood through you, my dear Ma... ...when he proposed going home. He took a kind, affectionate leave of the old lady , who again looked fondly in big face, and rejoiced in his having reco... ... bounded out of his prison house, with a springy step learnt upon mountain heather. Mr. Kendal only waited to hear whither they were bound. ‘Oh! as fa...

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... from her to her son and daughter-in-law. After Sir Percy Shelley’s death, Lady Shelley took the occasion of the erec- tion of the monument to Shelley... ...se life it cherished, But that no human bosom can withstand Thee, wondrous Lady, and the mild command _3410 Of thy keen eyes:—yes, we are wre... ...the One whom he may love. He meets, in the ship in which he is embarked, a lady who appears to him to em- body his ideal of love and beauty. But she p... ... him. Athanase, crushed by sorrow, pines and dies. ‘On his death- bed, the lady who can really reply to his soul comes and kisses his lips’ (“The Deat... ... honoured chief, Who fell in Byzant, pierced by Moslem spears:— And as the lady looked with faithful grief From her high lattice o’er the rugged path,... ... friends again, 214 V olume One Such as they were, when o’er the mountain heather They wandered in their youth, through sun and rain. And after many ...

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...in; “but I don’t know what to do when we’re alone.” Once more: A mar- ried lady was debating the subject with another lady. “Y ou know, dear,” said th... ...l, and so pat to the occasion, that I must quote a few phrases. “The young lady is in every sense formed to make one of your disposition really happy.... ... difficulty has been turned with the aid of pious lies. Thus, when a young lady has angelic features, eats nothing to speak of, plays all day long on ... ...a mighty bloodless substi- tute for life. It seems a pity to sit, like the Lady of Shalott, peering into a mirror, with your back turned on all the bu... ... of complete restfulness, after long uneasy rolling to and fro on grass or heather, the whole fashion of the landscape has been changed for him, as th... ...e, is now the vet- eran Sheriff emeritis of Perth. And I hear a story of a lady who returned the other day to Edinburgh, after an absence of sixty yea...

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... her a little box which his servant had brought and which contained a Cape heather,—a flower lately im- ported into Europe and very rare. Madame des G... ...ted to him by the most amiable of women,—amiable for him, at least,—a fine lady whom he called Annette and 32 Eugenie Grandet who at this moment was ... ...age or- dered for a journey on which he was to meet his Annette, the great lady who, etc.,—whom he intended to rejoin at Baden in the following June. ... ...away. Charles drew from his pocket a handkerchief embroidered by the great lady now travelling in Scotland. As Eugenie saw this pretty piece of work, ... ...ieur Cruchot’s arm,” said her husband. The abbe walked off with the pretty lady so quickly that they were soon some distance in advance of the caravan... ... as much dandyism into his dress as if he were in the chateau of the noble lady then travelling in Scotland. He came into the room with the smiling, c...

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...m all; then Helgi asked them 43 The V olsunga Saga the name of that their lady and queen, and she named herself Sigrun, and said she was daughter of ... ... and is used throughout the Eddaic poems as a dignified synonym for woman, lady. 62 The V olsunga Saga Then the storm abated, and on they fared till ... ...might and main of a dragon must I strive, while thou wert laid alow in the heather-bush, wotting not if it were earth or heaven.” Said Regin, “Long mi... ...oor, fitting shafts to his arrows. Now Sigurd spake, “Abide, fair and hale lady,—how farest thou?” She answered, “Well it fares; my kin and my friends... ...wonders have befallen you?” 95 The V olsunga Saga Then answered a waiting lady, hight Swaflod, “ An untimely, an evil day it is, and our hall is fulf...

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...he young magistrate with a smile; “and in the interesting trial that young lady is anxious to witness, the case would only be still more aggravated. S... ...the time he was at the Chateau d’If. “Yes,” said he, “I made a vow, to our Lady of the Grotto not to cut my hair or beard for ten years if I were save... ...; it was Julie, who, uneasy herself, had anticipated her mother. The young lady went towards Madame Morrel. “He is writing,” she said. They had unders... ...man, “go and tell your father that Maximilian has just arrived.” The young lady rushed out of the apartment, but on the first step of the stair- case ... ... rose to his seat, and found himself lying on his bournous in a bed of dry heather, very soft and odoriferous. The vision had fled; and as if the stat... ...owed by Gaetano. He recognized the place where he had awaked by the bed of heather that was there; but it was in vain that he carried his torch all ro... ...th gold and jewels. “Carmela wished to form a quadrille, but there was one lady want- ing. Carmela looked all around her, but not one of the guests ha...

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...nquilly delivered of their tad- poles, the woodland flowers bloom, and the heather is as beautiful as that I have seen on your mantle-shelf in January... ...s only fifty-three 14 Sons of the Soil years of age, and according to her lady’s-maid, afterwards married to a gendarme named Soudry, “Madame was mor... ...des is the hillside, rising sheer, like a Rhine rock clothed with moss and heather, gullied like it, again, by sharp ridges of schist and mica sending... ...eating, too. I get ten francs for every one I carry to Les Aigues, for the lady fasts Fridays, and to-morrow is Friday. Years agone the deceased madam... ...hing with Mademoiselle’s women, particularly with Mademoiselle Cochet, the lady’s maid, though she was ugly, like all confi- dential maids of handsome... ...d to them, at prices that were easily paid, the cast-off cloth- ing of the lady’s-maids, which, after sweeping the streets of Paris and being made ove... ...ally caught an otter?” “Yes, madame; as true as that you are the prettiest lady I have seen, or ever shall see,” said the child, wiping his eyes. “The...

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...ate of all work, lodged on our ground floor, and upstairs there was an old lady, Miss Holroyd, who painted flowers on china and maintained her blind s... ...L. I wonder if I can convey the effect of her to you. She was a little old lady with extraordinarily flaxen hair, her weak aq- uiline features were pu... ... that is beyond rubies. Richness, that is the first quality about this old lady that I would like to convey to you, and the second was cleanliness. Yo... ...ack on him without any further farewell. My line of retreat lay by the old lady, and so I advanced toward her. I saw her expression change, her mouth ... ...ing,” he protested; and there entered Miss Ramell, an elderly little young lady who was mighty in Church help in Clayton. He greeted her—she took no n... ...stumbled. There was something about my feet that impeded me, tall grass or heather, but I could not see what it was, only this smoke that eddied about...

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...ould like it very much.’ ‘And a frame for cucumbers — like a gentleman and lady.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And when the wedding was over, we’d have it put in the newsp... ... That about you not being good enough for me is nonsense. You speak like a lady — all the parish notice it, and your uncle at Weatherbury is, I have h... ...thirtover place this world is!’ continued Mrs Coggan (a wholesome looking lady who had a voice for each class of remark according to the emotion invo... ...e!’ continued the voice with greater prominence of man ner and tone. This lady called herself five and twenty, looked thirty, passed as thirty five, an... ... by their colour, shape, and general lineaments, that they were that young lady farmer’s property, and the grocer’s and draper’s no more. ‘I’ve been t... ...uous feelings resulting from the scene, abstractedly sat down on a tuft of heather. ‘I must leave you now,’ said Troy, softly. ‘And I’ll venture to ta...

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...or her he saved from the sale of an old chateau the gorgeous bed of a fine lady, upholstered in red silk damask, with curtains and chairs of the same ... ... and settle that and his town-house upon her. V eronique will be the first lady in Limoges, the richest in the department, and she can do what she ple... ...ed to her with much amusement these discussions of the des Vanneaulx. This lady, who was very intelligent, and one of those persons who form ideals an... ... He is making himself a wild beast for a purpose.” “At any rate,” said the lady, “he is not a well-bred man; he is only a workman.” “If he had been a ... ...ts of some love affair. “He protects that woman after his death,” said one lady, hearing of these last discoveries, rendered harmless by the criminal’... ...ulders, overhanging rocks, shaded valleys, broad open spaces with moss and heather still in bloom (though some was dried), utter solitudes overgrown w...

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...und her on the road to Savoy. If I were to tell you how I cured that young lady, you would take me for a quack. Aha! that is the sound of the bells on... ...used herself by giving her music lessons. She was treated some- times as a lady’s companion, sometimes as a waiting-maid, and in this way they made an... ...eating his kiln, no doubt. It is a newly-started industry, which turns our heather to account.” There was the sudden report of a gun, followed by an i... ...end of our Emperor’s, who was put out because he had not married a Russian lady. So the Russian backs up our enemies the En- glish; for there had alwa... ...him- self into a scrape, by choosing that moment to take leave of a Polish lady who lived outside the town, a quarter of a mile away; the Cossack adva... ...ad swept the clouds away. At such times I used to dream that I was a great lady. I used to gaze into the sky till I felt myself bathed in the blue; I ...

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...other things. Possibly he coloured a little. “Who is that talking with the lady in saffron?” he asked, avoiding her eyes. The person in question he le... ... pression, but afterwards it recurred;—the Black Labour Master? The little lady, in no degree embarrassed, pointed out to him a charming little woman ... ...dy about him kept the air of that great marching song from his memory. The lady to whom he was talking repeated her remark, and Graham recalled himsel... ...raham was in one of the upper galleries in conversation with a bright-eyed lady on the subject of Eadhamite—the subject was his choice and not hers. H... ...he marching song, once it had begun, lingered in his mind. The bright-eyed lady was still struggling with the mysteries of Eadhamite when he perceived... ...striving to rob the downland whirlers of their share of breeze. The purple heather was speckled with yel- low gorse, and on the further side a drove o...

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...cept, perhaps, the leeches.” “I am sure it was not good for him,” said the lady with conviction. “Perhaps not.” And then Wedderburn looked at his watc... ...nfess that the oddness of these three old pension- ers in whose charge her ladyship had left the castle, and the deep-toned, old-fashioned furniture o... ...he old earl who—” “No,” said I; “it is not.” “I told you so,” said the old lady, with the glass in her hand. “It is his poor young countess who was fr... ...hung in the keen air over the country-side like the belling of bees in the heather, and this murmurous tumult grew to a clangour in the cities. It was... ...d Miss Winchelsea suppressed Fanny’s emotions with a little smile, and the lady who was called “Ma” explained to people in general why they had “cut i... ... had taken against the little waves—cut lem- ons and flasks prevailed, one lady lay full length in a deck chair with a handkerchief over her face, and...

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...e. It frightened her, to see how they hated each other. 38 ‘It’s all that Lady of Shalott business,’ he said, in his strong abstract voice. He seemed... ...we’re all warm and our bellies are filled and we’re listening to the young lady performing on the pianoforte—what then? What then, when you’ve made a ... ... toneless. ‘Where is he then?’ asked Birkin. ‘He’s doing a private show at Lady Snellgrove’s,’ said the girl. ‘Warens is there too.’ There was a pause... ...out the quarrel of two male swans, who had striven for the love of the one lady. She chuckled and laughed as she told how the ousted lover had sat wit... ...ild valley-side, where were thickets of hazel, many flowers, 103 tufts of heather, and little clumps of young firtrees, budding with soft paws. It wa... ...rangwen parents, and immediately he spoke to Mrs Brangwen as if she were a lady, and to Brangwen as if he were not a gentleman. Gerlad was so obvious ... ...lower I found you,’ she said, wistfully holding a piece of purple-red bell-heather under his face. He saw the clump of coloured bells, and the tree-li...

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... little use to try to prevent him; a gentleman likes his delicacies, and a lady her feathers and it does not avail much to struggle against either; wh... ...the child in charge at the death of its mother; and under the care of this lady Mabel had acquired some tastes and many ideas which otherwise might al... ...r, perhaps, rose to the level of those which would properly characterize a lady. She had lost the less refined habits and manners of one in her origi-... ...on. “Not he, girl; though they do say that he has a betrothed at home. The lady, it seems, is willing to wait, rather than suffer the hardships of ser... ...uly so? I am but a poor hunter and Mabel, I see, is fit to be an officer’s lady. Do you think the girl will consent to quit all her beloved settlement... ... he spoke; “and bonnie Scotland is a far-off country. W ell, if we have no heather and oatmeal in this region, we have venison for the killing of it a...

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...hausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be. This is the more remarkable, as there is nothing against the respectable lady in t...

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...t, ran away from their emp loyer. They were bound to a highly meri torious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and re pute, though, it must be ... .... This is the more remarkable, as there is nothing against the re spectable lady in that quarter, but quite the contrary; her family having rendered ... ... which latter distinguished man and magistrate was doubtless indebted to the lady’s family for the gift of his celebrated cat. There is also strong re... ...fering over open sacks. There was its general market in the street too, with heather brooms on which the purple flower still flourished, and heather b... ... flying, and was making great way through a sea of a regular pattern, like a lady’s collar. A benevolent, elderly gentleman of the last cen tury, wit... ...n, in the water or out of it, over the rocks, through the bogs, skirting the heather, Mr. Thomas Idle was always the last, and was always the man who ... ...r toes and trippers up of wavering feet. When these impediments were passed, heather and slough followed. Here the steepness of the ascent was slightl... ...assuming it as more than probable that Arthur Holliday would marry the young lady who had given him the water colour drawing of the landscape. That ma...