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I stepped into this perfectly silent room, of a very silent house, with a peculiar foreboding; and its darkness, and solemn clothing of books, for except where two narrow looking-glasses were set in the wall, they were everywhere, helped this somber feeling. While awaiting Mr. Jennings' arrival, I amused myself by looking into some of the books with which his shelves were laden.
From the creek, I struck away to my left, and after penetrating through a belt of swamp-oak and minor shrubs, got on a small plain, which I crossed N.E. and, to my annoyance, found it covered with rhagodia and salsolae. As I had not started with the intention of sleeping, I turned to the S.W. a little before sunset, and reached the tents between ten and eleven. I found Mr. Hume awaiting me.
Robert Bent, one of the richest gentlemen in London, and a great shipowner. "I remained at the coffee-house all day, and in the evening a hackney coach drove up, and the old gentleman, accompanied by a younger man of very commanding presence, came into the room where I was seated anxiously awaiting him. "'Well, my lad, said he, 'here you are.
Now there seemed hope of this dream being realised. Karen had not yet received a wedding-present from her guardian, but in Paris, on the homeward way, she heard that it had been dispatched from New York and would be awaiting her in London, and it was of this gift that she had been talking as she and Gregory drove from the station to St. James's on a warm October evening.
"I did hear that they had arrived," he answers, still speaking ungraciously, "but even if I had not, I should not have come!" I look up in his face, and laugh. "You forgot? Ah, I told you you would!" "I did not forget." Again I look up at him, this time in honest astonishment, awaiting the solution of his enigma.
Nevertheless, he was not a little astonished to find Helen Layton awaiting him in Margaret's boudoir. The girl showed signs of recent agitation, but she explained her presence quietly enough. "Mrs. Capella sent for me when your note reached her, Mr. Brett.
So soon as they are near enough to be distinguished one from another, each watcher on the beach shouts the name of the friend he is awaiting, proud to affix, for the first time, the title Háj Pilgrim to his name. As only some twenty or thirty have yet landed from among so many hundreds, the number of disappointed ones who have to turn back and bide their time is proportionately large.
The ladies of the party travelled in rude country carts "carrette" as far as Brescello, where the Po was navigable, and they were able to continue their journey by water to Pavia. Here Messer Galeazzo Visconti was awaiting them with a fleet of boats and three bucentaurs, by which pompous name the rude barges in which these high-born personages travelled were glorified.
Sinking down on her knees, Laura started to pack with renewed vigor, crying hysterically: "I want to be happy! I'm going to be married, I'm going to be happy!" Two hours later, Laura, fully dressed for a journey, sat on a trunk, nervously watching the clock, patiently awaiting John's return. Annie was still on her knees, struggling with the key of an obstinate suitcase.
"Our stay will probably be somewhat indefinite," he replied, evasively; "but that is no reason why you and the young ladies need remain against your will." "Indeed! Why could you not have said as much before? Neither Isabel nor I care to remain here a day longer than is necessary; we have simply been awaiting your pleasure.
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