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At the end of the third act, coffee was handed round to the court circle; and precisely at eleven the performances finished, and the flambeaux gleamed through the dimly-lighted streets of Windsor, as the happy family returned to their tranquil home. There was occasionally a good deal of merriment going forward at Windsor in these olden days.
It was to me a marvellous experience; to be here, propped up with pillows in a dimly-lighted room, the night-nurse idly dosing by the fire; the sound of the everlasting wind in my ears, howling outside and dashing the rain like hailstones against the window-panes; to be awake to all this, feverish and ill and sore, conscious of my danger too, and at the same time to be thousands of miles away, out in the sun and wind, rejoicing in other sights and sounds, happy again with that ancient long-lost and now recovered happiness!
I found the stationer's shop as darksome and dreary as City shops usually are, but redolent of that subtle odour of wealth which has a mystical charm for the nostrils of the penniless one. Stacks of ledgers, mountains of account-books, filled the dimly-lighted warehouse.
Nothing can be conceived more strongly calculated to impress the feelings of a romantic girl, than the poetic attractions which are thrown around the Roman Catholic religion by nuns, and cloisters, and dimly-lighted chapels, and faintly-burning tapers, and matins, and vespers, and midnight dirges. Jane had just the spirit to be most deeply captivated by such enchantments.
Fitz opened the door for her, and she gave him a glance as she passed him a preliminary shot to find the range, as it were- -to note which way the wind blew. In the dimly-lighted hall Agatha suddenly became aware of a hot sensation in the eyelids. The temperature of the tear of vexation is a high one.
Towards four o'clock he returned to the sleeper after an absence of some ten minutes, just as the train pulled slowly away from one of those little prairie stations, and as he entered the dimly-lighted aisle he saw that Brannan was not in his place. Standing at Mrs.
But don't let's keep her waiting " He took Elwyn's consent for granted, and quickly the two men walked up the stairs of the high house, on and on and on. "It's a good way up," whispered Bellair, "but Fanny was told that a child's nursery couldn't be too high. So we had the four rooms at the top thrown into two." They were now on the dimly-lighted landing. "Wait one moment wait one moment, Hugo."
Opening the door with a key which he carried, the boy admitted Sir Lucien and Sin Sin Wa to the dimly-lighted interior of a room the pretensions of which to be regarded as a shaving saloon were supported by the presence of two chairs, a filthy towel, and a broken mug.
I came here simply because my friend is out of town. If he wishes to see me, I will see him, and do my best for him. It rests entirely with himself." "Will you wait here a few minutes?" she asked, "while I see what he will do?" She left me in the dimly-lighted hall, pervaded by a musty smell of unventilated rooms, and a damp, dirty underground floor.
Dress quickly and come with me; the way is open." "Where is the sentry?" I asked. "Gagged and insensible," replied the voice. "Quick, while there is yet time." Perhaps it was rather venturesome thus to trust myself in the hands of an unknown man, but I slipped on my clothes, and keeping touch of his arm, accompanied him into the dimly-lighted corridor.
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