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Dane, the housekeeper, returned and Miss Arran, who was a kind of secretary, took her outing. Mrs. Dane was a tall, rather severe looking person. All disputes with the servants and any discomforts in the rooms were under her jurisdiction. Why it was like a little kingdom in itself. "Mrs. Boyd doesn't look very robust and seems rather timid, uncertain, though if she is capable " Mrs.

That is one of the grand points about one's memory; you forget all the trivial details and discomforts, and only remember the best. He quite naturally turned to Nan. 'I am sure, Miss Nan, he said, 'you have quite a series of beautiful little pictures in your mind about that Splügen excursion.

It was his bosom secret; it added a zest to all his pleasures; he lived in and for it, and might well write these solemn words, when he closed that confidant for ever: "And so I betake myself to that course which is almost as much as to see myself go into the grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me."

Henderson was now defunct, but his possessions served a better purpose than being stared at by a reprobate neighbor. They passed, in fact, into Andrew's keeping. As she was only four years older than he, there was no disparity of years on this occasion; while her appearance effectually guaranteed her lover against the discomforts of rivalry.

I assured Miss Stanleigh that the Sylph was at her service. Mrs. Stanleigh was a large bland woman, inclined to stoutness and to making confidences, with an intense dislike of the tropics and physical discomforts of any sort. How her niece prevailed upon her to make that surreptitious trip to Muloa, which we set out upon two days later, I have never been able to imagine.

How men lived from day to day, what their occupations were, their comforts and discomforts, their ideas, sentiments, and modes of intercourse, their state as regards art, letters, invention, religious enlightenment, these are points on which history, as at present studied and written, undertakes to shed light.

Long railway trips in dusty August, the hot days and hotter nights of that fiery month, and the various minor discomforts of close summer boarder quarters were all forgotten in a great joy. Nothing was ever more bewitching to watch than that atom in feathers, the hummingbird mother.

Luckily, it was not raining; it had been raining most of the winter in the flat country of Northern France and Flanders. "It is very horrible, this kind of warfare," said the captain. He was thinking of the method of it, rather than of the discomforts. "All war is very horrible, of course." Regular soldiers rarely take any other view. They know war.

They were tossed about on the turbulent water, and to add to their discomforts, they had neither food nor drink and were drenched to the skin. That night they got under Scarborough Head where they had smoother water and succeeded in making a landing.

There were about five minutes of feeling, worth all the discomforts of getting here; and it is only for some such short time that we can enjoy then our prison door closes. There are four painted glass windows, given by the King of Bavaria. I have got for H. the photograph of two of them, representing the birth and death of Christ. They are gorgeous paintings by the first masters.