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'I can well understand that, said the landlord, 'I was looking at it just now; it's as good as ruined, is that chaise. General rule, people don't like chaises with bullet-holes. 'Too much Romance of the Forest? I suggested, recalling my little friend of the morning, and what I was sure had been her favourite reading Mrs. Radcliffe's novels. 'Just so, said he.

We got into our chaise and, followed by Grontovsky's smiles, drove along the edge of the forest to the manor house. I was not acquainted with Nadyezhda Lvovna Kandurin, née Shabelsky. I had never seen her at close quarters, and knew her only by hearsay. I knew that she was incredibly wealthy, richer than anyone else in the province.

Burke, and by power of attorney to be immediately entitled to receive and manage the Colambre as well as the Clonbrony estate. Towards the evening of the second day's journey, the driver of Lord Colambre's hackney chaise stopped, and jumping off the wooden bar, on which he had been seated, exclaimed 'We're come to the bad step, now. The bad road's beginning upon us, please your honour.

‘Yes, yes; you’ll soon find that out, before you go far, I should thinkbut make a noise, you’ll excite suspicion if you whisper to me so much.’ ‘I won’t go in this chaise!’ shouted Mr. Alexander Trott, all his original fears recurring with tenfold violence. ‘I shall be assassinated—I shall be—’ ‘Bravo, bravo,’ whispered Overton. ‘I’ll push you in.’ ‘But I won’t go,’ exclaimed Mr.

While the sailor was again attacking his breakfast with the familiarity of a lover who has achieved his ends and no longer needs to hide and poetize his grosser necessities, she seated herself on an old chaise longue, lighting a cigarette. She cuddled into this seat, her crossed legs forming an angle within the circle of one of her arms.

Now please put it in a basket for me, with a trowel, and let me take a watering pot of water too; or Lewis can carry that, can't he?" "He can take whatever ye have a mind," said Logan; "but where is it going?" "I'll take the basket with the rose," said Daisy "it's going a little way you can set it just here, in my chaise, Logan."

Our servants would be afraid of a man who has worked sixteen hours a day half his lifetime." "Deacon White is worth twenty thousand dollars," said Abel, "every cent of which he made mending and making common shoes." "What does he do with it?" said Arthur. "Hoards it up," said Abel, "and yet an honester man never lived. Did I not tell you of the time I hired his horse and chaise?

He flew like lightning there was a slope of three miles and a half we scarce touched the ground the motion was most rapid most impetuous 'twas communicated to my brain my heart partook of it 'By the great God of day, said I, looking towards the sun, and thrusting my arm out of the fore-window of the chaise, as I made my vow, 'I will lock up my study-door the moment I get home, and throw the key of it ninety feet below the surface of the earth, into the draw-well at the back of my house.

"Come, John, we are not yet done." My father said no more, and we boys were still as mice. We went homeward with our mirth quite at an end, Jack and Wilson leaving us at Fourth street. In the afternoon about six for an hour had been named I saw my aunt's chaise at the door.

She had to wait until Caleb had sold some of the wood, and that took some time, since seller and purchasers were slow-motioned. At last, one afternoon, she drove herself over to Bolton in the chaise to buy the dress. She went to Bolton, because she would not go herself to Silas Berry's store and trade with William.