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Having at last landed in a great hall, full of skylight glare, I made my way somehow to what proved to be the coffee-room. It cannot be denied that on entering this room I trembled somewhat; felt uncertain, solitary, wretched; wished to Heaven I knew whether I was doing right or wrong; felt convinced that it was the last, but could not help myself.
Here the omnibus pulled up. "Wal, I reckon I should know something of my own family," drawled the stranger as he alighted. "What say? shall we have a snack of something in the parlour! Come along." The landlord led the way into the coffee-room. He knew Mr Ratman by this time.
He said to her, as he left her at the hotel, "Would you mind telling Lavender I shall drop in at half-past three, and that I expect to see him in the coffee-room? I sha'n't keep him five minutes." She looked at him for a moment, and he saw that she knew what this appointment meant, for her eyes were full of gladness and gratitude. He went away pleased at heart that she put so much trust in him.
Words could not paint in many pages what Meadows passed through in a few seconds. His very body was one moment cold as ice, the next burning. The coffee-room door was open he dragged himself into the passage, though each foot in turn seemed glued to the ground, and listened. He came back and sat down in the bar. "Are they going to stay?" said the mistress to the waiter.
He was asked if his EXCELLENCY would be served with breakfast in a private room, and his condescension in selecting the public coffee-room struck the obsequious chamberlain, but did not prevent him from preceding Paul backwards to the table, and summoning a waiter to attend specially upon "milor."
For to him it appeared a sacred duty to execute the commission of his departed friend to get possession of the ring, and to be the means, as he hoped, of giving rest to the troubled spirit of Ferdinand. Already, on the evening of the second day, he was sitting in the coffee-room with burghers of the place and officers of different regiments.
It was not in the coffee-room that I found Steerforth expecting me, but in a snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted, where the fire burnt bright, and a fine hot breakfast was set forth on a table covered with a clean cloth; and a cheerful miniature of the room, the fire, the breakfast, Steerforth, and all, was shining in the little round mirror over the sideboard.
I had emerged by another door, and stood in the street for a little while, as if I really were a stranger upon earth: but the unceremonious pushing and hustling that I received, soon recalled me to myself, and put me in the road back to the hotel; whither I went, revolving the glorious vision all the way; and where, after some porter and oysters, I sat revolving it still, at past one o'clock, with my eyes on the coffee-room fire.
In the coffee-room at the hotel a stranger, loud in praise of the commercial enterprise of the neighbourhood, advised Coningsby, if he wanted to see something tip-top in the way of cotton works, to visit Millbank of Millbank's; and thus it came about that Coningsby first met Edith Millbank. Oswald was abroad; and Mr.
In short, at eight o'clock in the evening, Mr. Pickwick himself walked into the coffee-room of the Bush Tavern, and told Sam with a smile, to his very great relief, that he had done quite right, and it was unnecessary for him to mount guard any longer. 'I thought it better to come myself, said Mr. Pickwick, addressing Mr.
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