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There is even a bank in this thriving settlement a branch, if we mistake not, of the flourishing Bank of Montreal of which a certain Mr Welland is manager, and a certain Thomas Balls is hall-porter, as well as general superintendent, when not asleep in the hall-chair.
Melton took off his hat and laid it on the hall shelf. "I will climb up on a chair to shake you," he continued cheerfully, "if already, in less than twenty-four hours, you're indulging in nerves, as these broken and meaningless ejaculations seem to indicate." He picked up a palm-leaf fan, lost himself in a big hall-chair, and began to fan himself vigorously.
"'In the name of Imperence, says I, rushing on Thomas, and collaring him fit to throttle him 'no raskle of a flunky shall insult ME, and I sent him staggerin up aginst the porter, and both of 'em into the hall-chair with a flopp when Mary Hann, jumping down, says, 'O James! O Mr. Plush! read this' and she pulled out a billy doo. "I reckanized the and-writing of Hangelina."
A beam knocked him senseless...." "Surgeon said it was instantaneous," came papa's shadowy voice. "Well.... It's on my head. I'm responsible. I know that." And he sat down uncertainly, and somewhat pitifully, on the tall hall-chair.... Then nobody said anything more. There would never be anything more to say. Time would go on a long while yet, but no one would ever add another touch here.
A sudden vertigo seized her: the hall was whirling round; she stretched a hand blindly for support, and pulled over an umbrella-stand which fell with a crash and clatter. The girls and Bernard came running out. "What on earth are you doing, mama? Have you hurt yourself? What is it?" She had subsided upon a hall-chair, her face was ghastly, all her strength seemed gone. "I felt faint.
Mole's face beamed at the sight of all these objects so dear to him, and he hurried Rat through the door, lit a lamp in the hall, and took one glance round his old home. He saw the dust lying thick on everything, saw the cheerless, deserted look of the long-neglected house, and its narrow, meagre dimensions, its worn and shabby contents and collapsed again on a hall-chair, his nose to his paws.
Mole's face-beamed at the sight of all these objects so dear to him, and he hurried Rat through the door, lit a lamp in the hall, and took one glance round his old home. He saw the dust lying thick on everything, saw the cheerless, deserted look of the long-neglected house, and its narrow, meagre dimensions, its worn and shabby contents and collapsed again on a hall-chair, his nose to his paws.
There is a hall-chair, but her eyes are too darkened to see it; she simply clings to the handle of the door, and lets her head sink against the side of the passage. Brookes is upstairs with his brother and two friends; they have been playing cards, but a game is just over, and the men have got up to stretch themselves.
'Yes, I will, said Hester, the whole nature of whose face was now altered, and who looked as she did when sitting in the hall-chair at Puritan Grange, 'I will. Though I were almost to know that he had been false, I should still believe him to be true. 'I cannot understand that, Hester.
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