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Neither by look nor gesture did she manifest the least consciousness of, or concern for, the inanimate form visible in the adjoining room. With sudden directness, and ignoring the implied threat in her last words, Mr. Whitney asked, "Mrs. LaGrange, at what hour did you last see Hugh Mainwaring?" She was about to reply, when Scott entered from the tower-room.
The shining, pebbly beach in front, the clear, level spot adjoining, with the beautiful open and comparatively level plateau in the background, and two or three vessels at anchor in the foreground, made a picture of a perfect city site. Upon closer examination of the little town we found that the first impression, gained from a distance, was illusory.
But as Phasaelus's and Herod's party came to the other's assistance, and a battle happened between them in the market-place, the young men beat their enemies, and pursued them into the temple, and sent some armed men into the adjoining houses to keep them in, who yet being destitute of such as should support them, were burnt, and the houses with them, by the people who rose up against them.
He took her out of the hands of the committee and carried her down to the little library, adjoining the great one, but never thrown open, his room, as it was called, where more particularly art and taste had accumulated their wealth of attractions. "I remember this very well," said Fleda. "This beautiful room!"
Beyond the archway to the adjoining room of his suite, a ray of sunshine lay like living gold upon the soft, rich-hued fabric of the carpet. "Gold!" he murmured. "Mojave Desert! Overland Red! Lost gold! No, it isn't the two hundred dollars I invested in the rascal's story, for it was worth the money. I never spent four happier hours in my life, at fifty dollars an hour.
Susan smiled encouragingly, maternally, down upon him. But his gaze had wandered again. He drained the glass, and immediately seemed quieter. "He'll sleep now," said Miss Baker, when they were back in the adjoining room. "Doesn't it seem a shame?" "Couldn't he be cured, Miss Baker?" "Well," the nurse pursed her lips, shook her head thoughtfully. "No, I don't believe he could now.
I recently overheard two traveling men remarking about the differences which they could plainly observe between the corn crops in different fields as they rode past in the train. "'Some fields have twice as good corn as other adjoining fields, one remarked. 'How do you account for the difference, asked the other. 'oh, I suppose the one farmer was too stingy of his seed, was the reply.
In the room adjoining, under whisper of a very soft pedal, some one, probably a waiting pupil, was playing the indomitable pianoforte composition, "Melody in F." Staring at her daughter, an old conceit of Lilly's girlhood came flowing back.
At this conference the farmers from this and the adjoining counties come together. There were 500 at our last conference. The school is almost wholly given up to farmers on Conference day. Here we listen to educational, religious, moral, and financial reports from many sections.
None of them could speak for a few moments, and Charlie clung round his mother's neck as though he would never loose his hold. "Mother, mother!" was all he could utter; yet in that word was comprised a world of joy and affection. Esther soon came in for her share of caresses; then Charlie inquired, "Where's father?" "In here," said Mrs. Ellis, leading the way to an adjoining room.
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