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He had been absent from the hotel for several days, and now appeared to be in the gloomiest of humours. Where had he been? For a promenade, he said. It was too dreary sitting indoors, all alone. He had left the hotel. The place was too noisy: the dogs barked incessantly. He had taken rooms with a Jew, and arranged to have his meals at a small Italian trattoria. This was a half-truth, I felt sure.
Hemphill, from indoors somewhere, screaming her commands to the scattered family in a high key, though no one seemed paying the slightest attention.
She had sometimes fancied, after an unusually wide and vivid flash, that she had really been able to see a wee bit of a way into that Heavenly City which she had been taught was high above her, behind all that sky, in the blinding brightness. It was always their very first move, when a storm was threatened, to bid her remain indoors.
The fact that it was early closing day did not disturb Anna, for though most of the Witanbury tradespeople were so ungracious that when their shops were shut they would never put themselves out to oblige an old customer, the owner of the Stores, if he was in and he nearly always did stay indoors on early closing day was always willing to go into the closed shop and get anything that was wanted.
She knew of life's seamy side as a theory; she could not grasp it as a fact. More words from Jacky were necessary words unequivocal, undenied. "So that " burst from her, and she went indoors. She stopped herself from saying more. "So what?" asked Colonel Fussell, who was getting ready to start in the hall.
Not only in summer but in cold winter, and not only romantic things but plain matter-of-fact things, as a waggon freshly painted red beside the wright's shop, stand out as if wet with colour and delicately pencilled at the edges. It must be out of doors; nothing indoors looks like this.
His relations with the Governor were peaceful, if not cordial, and the limits were about this time extended. Indoors there were recreations other than work at the Memoirs. He often played chess and billiards, at the latter using his hand instead of the cue! Dinner was generally at a very late hour, and afterwards he took pleasure in reading aloud.
The snow had ceased, and a single star was shining, through a rift in the scudding clouds, straight overhead. From the northwest the wind blew hard, and the fleecy covering on the ground was fast freezing a foot deep in ice. With a shiver she drew her cloak about her and ran indoors and upstairs to where Virginia lay asleep in the high, white bed.
When I am grown up I'll always play with common children. And she ran at us, and began to kiss us one by one, beginning with Alice; she had got to H. O. when the horrid lady said 'Your Highness go indoors at once! The little girl answered, 'I won't! Then the prim lady said 'Wilson, carry her Highness indoors.
The little curtains had long been pushed apart again; and, each time that she heard approaching footsteps, her heart went beating and her eyes looked eagerly to see if by chance ... it was not he. Sometimes, an anxious fluttering drove her to the front-door, where she stood looking round for a while and then, ashamed of herself, went indoors again.
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