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...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... ...ration, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House; whether t... ..., but I must say it before we part – there is not any other young – ‘ ‘O no, Eddy! It’s generous of you to ask me; but no, no, no!’ They have come ver... ... of some wooden forget-me-not, and bearing it off. The semblance of an inn is attempted to be given to this wretched place by fragments of conventiona... ...gendered by a sorrowful story that is all told, or a pathetic play that is played out. Red-brick walls harmoniously toned down in colour by time, stro... ...Jasper passes a more agreeable and cheerful day than either of his guests. Having no music- lessons to give in the holiday season, his time is his own... ...t the period to which the present history has now attained. The Cathedral doors have closed for the night; and the Choir-master, on a short leave of a...

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...alk for constitutional exercise compelled him to pass before Lady Camper’s windows, which were not bashfully withdrawn, as he said humorously of Douro... ...iously 6 The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper avoided glancing at the windows during the passage past them, whether in his wild career or on foot... ... have.’ ‘But, madam—a pensioner on the Government! I can look back on past services, I say old services, and I accept my position. But, madam, a pensi... ...e could have called it a gentle- manly residence aloud under Lady Camper’s windows, his insurgency was of such violence. He talked of it incessantly, ...

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... closed, presenting a wall that is beginning to go black, its tiny gallery windows and its vast expanse of slate roof. I was not rich enough to have a... ...kcase in cherry-wood, such as every one knows who has stared into the shop windows of the Quartier Latin, and in which we kept the few books necessary... ...sought his Barras; the new Colbert hoped to find a Mazarin. He did immense services, and he did them 16 Z. Marcas then and there; he assumed no impor... ...s founded, which was destined to live but two years, but which secured his services. From that moment he renewed his con- nection with the minister’s ...

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...inks of the patches and powder that have simpered out of those plate-glass windows— the mitred bishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hat- ted a... ...oors of which you may see the sergeants’ ladies conversing; or at the open windows of the officers’ quarters, Ensign Fipps lying on his sofa and smok-... ... bedsteads at the time in a cracked old room on the ground-floor, the open windows of which looked into the square. No spot could be more favourably s... ..., were naturally inclined for more; and when we remon- strated through the windows, one of them in a young tipsy voice asked after our mothers, and fi... ...or seem to inhabit hand- some stone palaces, with balconies and projecting windows of heavy carved stone. The lights and shadows, the cries and stench... ... tians of our denomination assemble and worship. There seem to be polyglot services here. I saw books of prayer, or Scripture, in Hebrew, Greek, and G... ... our ship sailing over the peace- ful Sabbath sea, and our own prayers and services celebrated there. So each, in his fashion, and after his kind, is ...

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...a clap of thunder that left me deaf on one side for life, and all about me windows smashed, un- heeded. I took three steps from the verandah towards C... ...of as was left to me. For a space we sat in arm-chairs and panted. All the windows were broken, and the lighter ar- ticles of furniture were in great ... ... of the blind rollers, the Cavorite exterior of the sphere will consist of windows or blinds, which- ever you like to call them. Well, when all these ... ...pace in a straight line, as you say. But open a window, imagine one of the windows open. Then at once any heavy body that chances to be in that direct... ...s to light again, before I could turn them towards that pallid glare. Four windows were open in order that the gravitation of the moon might act upon ... ...of the young men in flannels. I made a dash at them and commandeered their services. As soon as the gold was in my room I felt free to quarrel. “Now g...

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...r skill; if you do, I’ll fling you into the river that flows beneath those windows, with a collar round your neck weighing a hundred pounds!” With tha... ...child of their heart. The duke (for about this time Henri IV. rewarded the services of the Seigneur d’Herouville with a dukedom), not wishing, he said... ...es. In spite of the protection of a great family to whom he had done great services, he had recently been implicated in a crimi- nal case, and the int... ...resources of his voice like an opera-singer, and often he came beneath her windows to let her hear his melodiously melancholy voice, when Beauvouloir ... ...ept him standing before his window with his eyes sometimes on his mother’s windows where a faint light trembled, sometimes on the ocean which continue... ...tly bending, her neck stretched out to watch the flight of a bird past the windows, he could only compare her to a gazelle pausing to listen for the r... ...me into my mind which shake me, and fly away like those birds be- fore the windows; I cannot hold them. Well, when I have made a bouquet in which the ... .... Your father will be broken on the wheel; though perhaps, in view of some services he has done to his master, he may obtain the favor of being hanged...

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... garden, the house had only one room to the right, a salon lighted by four windows, two on the courtyard and two on the garden; but Levrault-Levrault ... ...urtyard and two on the garden; but Levrault-Levrault had used one of these windows to make 21 Balzac an entrance to a long greenhouse built of brick ... ...lls were hung with a gray paper strewn with roses and green leaves; at the windows, which looked to the court, were calico curtains edged with a band ... ... were calico curtains edged with a band of some pink material; between the windows and beneath a tall mir- ror was a pier-table topped with marble, on... ... might seem to have a reason for his visit, the doctor saw at once how the windows looked into those of Madame de Portenduere. During the night he had... ...f her lover above the fastening of his. When one re- flects on the immense services that windows render to lovers it seems natural and right that a ta... ...137 Balzac the duty of hearing mass in church, and allowed him to read the services at home, for the doctor faithfully attended to all his religious d... ...ris who owed their wives and their fortunes to abduction. He knew that the services he had ren- dered to Minoret, to Massin, and to Cremiere, and the ... ...un- grateful; I’ll give you ten per cent, twenty thousand francs, for your services, and you can buy a sheriff’s practice in Nemours. I’ll guarantee y...

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..., 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... ...d and diaphanous. The rain left long, slanting paral- lels on the carriage windows. They passed on down Wabash Avenue, and crossed over to State Stree... ...n both sides of the street were lighted from basement to roof. Through the windows she could get glimpses of clerks and book-keepers in shirt- sleeves... ...antly ecclesias- tic, with a suggestion of Gothic to some of the doors and windows. The material used was solid, massive, the walls thick, the foundat... ...hem down town. All the way Laura could not refrain from looking out of the windows, absorbed in the con- templation of the life and aspects of the str... ...nd Thursdays—she took a French lesson. Corthell managed to enlist the good services of Mrs. Wessels and escorted her to numerous piano and ‘cello reci...

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...s spurs, and the horse maketh answer with a great leap. The Queen was at the windows of the hall, and as many as five and twenty knights were all come... ... the Butler served the golden cup before the King. The sun shone through the windows everywhere amidst the hall that was strown of flowers and rushes ... ...ing eaten in hall, the Queen with the King and the knights go to lean at the windows to look at the three damsels and the three white harts that draw ... ... time as behoved her enter into the forest; and the knights that were at the windows might see them no longer. Then set she her hat again upon her hea... ... Queen, and the knights when they might see them no more, came down from the windows, and certain of them said that never until this time had they see... ...til the Monday after mass.” And he heard the sweetest voices and the fairest services that were ever done in chapel. Messire Gawain answereth her not ... ...elot beheld the martyrdom of these knights, and sore misliking had he of the services of such folk. They are risen from meat and the lady goeth to her... ...ell should I love your coming.” “Lady,” saith he, “never shall be the day my services shall fail you, so I be in place, and you in need thereof.” He t... ... keen swords and saith, “By my head, an evil guerdon do you return me of the services I have done for you.” The knights come to him all together sword...

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... var- nished. On either side of the doorway, on the ground-floor, were two windows, which resembled all the other windows of the house. The casing of ... ...angles of the house, by stone courses. The first floor was pierced by five windows, the second by three, while the attic had only one large circular o... ...the base of the house; and on either side of the entrance, between the two windows, was a trap-door, clamped by heavy iron bands, through which the ce... ... swallow to build her nest in the red coping that roofed the arches of the windows. The precise and immaculate air of this facade, a little worn by pe... ...he right, the wood-house, coal-house, and offices, whose doors, walls, and windows were decorated with designs kept exquisitely clean. The daylight, t... ...t listening to the conversation. The notary’s remark that porcelain dinner-services were now the fashion, gave her the brilliant idea of selling a qua... ...ccepted the lawyer’s offer only so far as it re- lated to his professional services, so that she might not in any degree compromise either her own dig...

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... the glimpse of a far-off appeal. “Well, I’ll do the best I can for you,” said Morgan; with which he turned away again. He passed out of one of the lo... ...r. Moreen had a white moustache, a confiding manner and, in his buttonhole, the ribbon of a foreign order—bestowed, as Pemberton eventually learned, f... ...tle servile room, which looked into a close court where a bare dirty opposite wall took, with the sound of shrill clatter, the reflexion of lighted ba... ... to them. Pemberton noted how much less, among its curiosities, Lord Dorrington carried him- self as a man of the world; wondering too whether, for su...

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... settle in business, or to depend upon and attend the Court for rewards of services, preferments, and the like, was such that the town was com- puted ... ...e prophets had flattered with hopes that they should be continued in their services, and carried with their masters and mistresses into the country; a... ...d to make any outward show, or hang forth on their stalls, shop-boards, or windows, towards any street, lane, common way , or passage, any old bedding... ...e near to help him, the whole family that were able to stir got out at the windows one storey high, two that were left sick calling out for help. Care... ...oss the street-end to go into Houndsditch, which was in view of the tavern windows, they would frequently open the windows as soon as they heard the b... ...hey might often hear sad lamentations of people in the streets or at their windows as the carts went along, they would make their impudent mocks and j... ...ke. Some houses were, indeed, entirely locked up, the doors padlocked, the windows and doors having deal boards nailed over them, and only the in- spe...

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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 ... ...little was visible—a few masts, a shadow of land here, a line of brilliant windows there. They tried to make head against the wind. “It blows—it blows... ... a pall of purple plush from which depended a certain number of balls. Two windows opened on to the deck, and the light beating through them when the ... ...s no need, as there is in many houses when the creeper taps on the bedroom windows, for the couples to murmur before they kiss, “Think of the ships to... ...dow looked upon the back of a shop, where figures appeared against the red windows in winter, partly to the accidents that are bound to happen when mo... ...ea-garden than a place where one slept. The garden called urgently for the services of gardener. Bushes 84 The Voyage Out waved their branches across... ...testant wor- ship had been bridged by a time of disuse, when there were no services, and the place was used for storing jars of oil, liqueur, and deck... ...ed to rise automatically and fill the place with the ghosts of innumerable services on innumerable Sunday mornings at home. Susan Warrington in partic... ...y must be more strictly organised than they had been. St. John offered his services; he said that he had nothing to do, and that he might as well spen...

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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 ... ...nd is both simple and effective. In the centre of a lofty area, lighted by windows in the four walls, are five tiers of cells, one above the other; ea... ...chanics work ing at their trades, and people leaning from their doors and windows, and boys flying kites and playing marbles, and men smoking, and wo... ...e rooms in which they worked, were as well or dered as themselves. In the windows of some, there were green plants, which were trained to shade the g... ...able for a moment. Even where a blazing fire shone through the uncurtained windows of some dis tant house, it had the air of being newly lighted, and... ...there is a great contest for the tables —in consider ation for his public services: and he had the warmest corner by the stove throughout the rest of...

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...k already — it had not been light all day — and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable ... ...ess thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.... ...of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed. Poulterers’ and grocers’ t... ...e spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their gates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in th... ..., and the room became a little darker and more dirty. The panels shrunk, the windows cracked; fragments of plaster fell out of the ceiling, and the na... ...here the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold. Here he produced a decanter of curiously li...

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...as much bound to give it as we are to pay the tax on personal property, on windows and doors, et caetera. Do you want to stay forever behind your coun... ... man pro- ceeded to sum up for him his own plan. “You have now three front windows on the first floor, be- sides the window on the staircase which lig... ... sides the window on the staircase which lights the landing; to these four windows you mean to add two on the same level in the next house, by turning... ...re. “Possibly I showed myself worthy of that—signal—and royal—favor, by my services on the bench, and by fighting for the Bour- bons upon the steps of... ...s, who talks about public buildings! He is going to pitch the house out of windows and build us a Louvre. Cesar is never idle about his follies; he on... ...naturally, no other outlook than that of the common court on which all the windows give, so that rents are at a minimum. Monsieur Molineux lived in on... ...eau, “possibly I showed myself worthy of that signal and royal favor by my services on the Bench of commerce, and by fighting for the Bourbons upon th... ...ed. “Possibly I showed myself worthy of that signal and royal favor, by my services on the Bench of commerce, and by fighting for the Bourbons upon th... ...y, possibly, have shown myself worthy of that signal and royal favor by my services on the Bench of commerce, and by fighting for the royal cause; whi...

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... built of brick, of somewhat a bluer color than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. He brought us fi... ...y army had their men stand in better battle array than the people stood. The windows likewise were not crowded, but everyone stood in them, as if they... ...ed; some of iron, some of silver, some of gold. “We have certain hymns and services, which we say daily, of laud and thanks to God for His marvellou...

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...n the midst of a new scene. Suppose it a hot summer’s day, and the lattice windows of a chamber in Mr. Endicott’s house thrown wide open. The Lady Arb... ...eplied Grandfather, “was now some what the worse for its long and arduous services. It was con sidered hardly magnificent enough to be allowed to ke... ... sometimes with gusts of snow, that rattled like small pebbles against the windows. When the weather began to grow cool, Grandfather’s chair had been ... ...ol room. It is a large, dingy room, with a sanded floor, and is lighted by windows that turn on hinges and have little diamond shaped panes of glass. ... ...ck with its noble and stately aspect, but was of opinion that age and hard services had made it scarcely so fit for courtly company as when it stood i... ...hem surrounded the council chamber and threw stones and brickbats into the windows. The governor attempted to pacify them; but not succeeding, he thou... ...m nearly three hundred buildings, all in flames at once, shone through the windows of the Province House, and threw a fierce lustre upon the gilded fo...

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...mption of wine, which would not be more of- fensive than that on doors and windows and would return a hundred millions, rather than harass them by tax... ...ons. Magistrates, learned bodies, officers of the lower grades found their services honorably rewarded; no man employed by the government failed to ob... ...a base act with a jest and get the whole value of it; and he chose for the services he thus rendered those that the recipi- ents were not likely to fo... ...lay; gave gratuities and good dinners at the right moment, or promised his services to bring some affair to a happy conclusion. Moreover, he really li... ...ed their brains to guess the secret of his influence and the nature of his services; while, on the other hand, the aristocrats in all the various mini... ... wide antechamber, lighted from the courtyard, led to the grand salon, the windows of which looked on the street. To the right of the salon were Rabou... ...partment at three hundred francs a year, with white cotton curtains to the windows, a Scotch paper costing fifteen sous a roll on the walls, brick flo... ...that she does Thuillier, but I go there—” Thuillier. “When? how?—under her windows?” Though Fleury was dreaded as a bully in all the offices, he recei... ...ver uses; the mission of a minister of finance is to fling gold out of the windows. It will come back to him through the cel- lars; and you, you want ...

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...THE TWO BROTHERS CHAPTER I IN 1792 THE TOWNSPEOPLE of Issoudun enjoyed the services of a physician named Rouget, whom they held to be a man of consumm... ...ward a soldier, the Emperor resolved to cre- ate an order to requite civil services, just as he had already created the Legion of honor to reward 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... ...the staircase wound round upon itself. The third floor was the last. Three windows to three rooms, namely, a dining-room, a small salon, and a chamber... ...ty of rewarding, within the limits of con- stitutional government, all the services rendered to the cause, led to the custom of giving to reduced wome... ...he keenest and most astute lawyers in Paris, and who, moreover, did sundry services for personages of distinction, among others for des Lupeaulx, then... ...hey stole softly, one by one, round the walls of his house, or un- der his windows, whistling as if to call each other. One of their famous performanc... ... finest. It stands opposite to the house of Monsieur Hochon, and has three windows in front on the first storey, and a porte-cochere on the ground-flo...