The Savage-club Papers, Volumen2Tinsley Brothers, 1868 |
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Página 283 - There's something I want to say to you, and I don't know how to say it." He lit the bulb in the room and asked me to step in. "Mother and I," he said, "have been thinking. We don't know what your plans are; what you'd think. We did think that if you'd like to, we'd like you to live with us.
Página 98 - Then the cab wheels turned and went off. All his senses seemed to have gone into his ears, and in the silence of that quiet place he heard everything. He rose to his feet and stood waiting. After a moment there was the sound of a key in the lock of the door below; the rustle of a woman's dress coming up the stairs, an odour of perfume in the air, an atmosphere of freshness and health, and then the door of the room which had been ajar was swung open and there on the threshold with her languid and...
Página 239 - ... with sparkling eye, getting up a flirtation with a handsome friend of her beau's, just to tease the poor fellow. There is a group of girls in undulating muslin, with pink sashes and brown ringlets, all in the gayest of humours. The captain of the boat is talking with a charming young lady, splendidly attired, who has just arrived ; and who, we feel confident, will establish herself as the belle of the night before the " witching hour
Página 267 - ... applauded for witty when you know that you have been dull ; to be called upon for the extemporaneous exercise of that faculty which no premeditation can give ; to be spurred on to efforts which end in contempt ; to be set on to provoke mirth which procures the procurer hatred ; to give pleasure and...
Página 233 - Avon," are all pretty pet little streams, abounding in the most genial and picturesque landscape scenery that can be imagined ; but in the matter of rivers, as is known to every traveller, America possesses some of the largest and most magnificent on the globe.
Página 260 - ... bodily state for any man to be in. To have wanted bread and raiment and a bed now and then in the. course of your career, should tend — if you have a man's heart in you, and not a beast's — to make you, if you attain prosperity, tolerant and charitable, and passably humble and grateful. For all your fine horses and carriages, and money in the funds, you may be a beggar again some day. There is your incentive to humility. Spurn not that mendicant; set him not down sternly as an impostor :...
Página 240 - ... in the heavens, and all tells of festivity and happiness. We watch the boat until it is out of sight. The lights fade gradually away ; the strains of the music die gently upon the air ; no more we hear the soft plash of the waves. The excursionists have gone, and are now mingling in the mazes of the quadrille, and " making love" in the lustre of the moonbeams.