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She unfolded the silk which she liked very much, but she said she must have some trimmings. The Pacienza offered her services, and said she would send for a dressmaker who lived close by. I acquiesced with a nod, and as soon as she had left the room the Signora Laura said she was very sorry only to be able to receive me in the presence of the landlady.
The point is I've come back." "Oh, dear! I do hate not to take you in. But there isn't a spot." "Who's got my old room?" "Mr. Hainer." "Hainer? Let's turn him out." "I would in a minute," declared the ungrateful landlady to whom Mr. Hainer had always been a model lodger. "But the law " "Oh, I'll fix Hainer if you'll fix the room." "How?" asked the bewildered Mrs. Brashear. "The room?
"Perhaps he left a note for me on the table," said Larcher. "I have the freedom of his room, you know." "Go up and see, then. I'll go with you." The landlady, in climbing the stairs, used a haste very creditable in a person of her amplitude. Davenport's room appeared the same as ever. None of his belongings that were usually visible had been packed away or covered up.
"Only the gardener." "Can you trust these people?" "In what way, Mr. Sarrazin?" "Can you trust them with a secret which only concerns yourself?" "Certainly! The maid has been with us for years; no truer woman ever lived. The good old landlady often drinks tea with us. Her daughter is going to be married; and I have given the wedding-dress.
"I inferred as much from a remark which you made in your front window," said Bartley, indicating the placard. The landlady smiled. They were certainly a very pretty-appearing young couple, and the gentleman was evidently up-and-coming. Mrs. Nash liked Bartley, as most people of her grade did, at once.
His first instinct was to go and open the door; then he remembered that the new-comer was a nobleman who lived in a palace, and that he himself was indirectly a gentleman, inasmuch as he lived in the same house as a lady his niece. So he sat still and allowed the landlady to open the door. When Cipriani de Lloseta was ushered into the tiny room he found the captain half-bowing on the hearthrug.
Purnell's house, the sign of the George and the Dragon, our commander gave the word for the landlady to advance, from whom he boldly demanded, whether she thought that she could provide beef steaks for sixty in half an hour, as the troop could not halt longer than an hour, they being extremely anxious to reach Salisbury. Mrs.
'My landlady is subject to some slight attacks of mental derangement, remarked Bob Sawyer, with a ghastly smile; 'I fear I must give her warning. 'No, don't, said Ben Allen. 'I fear I must, said Bob, with heroic firmness. 'I'll pay her what I owe her, and give her warning to-morrow morning. Poor fellow! how devoutly he wished he could! Mr.
The landlady of the inn will inform you that on my arrival there the next day, my first inquiries were after the boy. 'Then give me leave to ask where you spent the night, not in the snow, I presume? You do not suppose that will pass, or be taken, credited, and received?
I made a lively representation to him of all the grounds on which my landlady required proportionate amends to be made, since the laws guaranteed the peace of all law-abiding people. I saw that the three friends were greatly saddened by what I said, and the wise old man, quietly but sadly, told me that I should have my answer after dinner.
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