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The streets seem dingy enough the hay waggon is encountered often. The "Great White Horse," which is at the corner of several streets, is a low, longish building with a rather seedy air. But to read "Boz's" description of it, we see at once that he was somewhat overpowered by its grandeur and immense size which, to us in these days of huge hotels, seems odd.
He watched me as I lit the lamp and hooked it on the back cushion, and observed: "I suppose you found it rather a dull ride last time. It's a longish way. They might have fitted the carriage with an inside lamp. But we shall have to make it a quicker passage to-night. Governor says Mr. Graves is uncommon bad." With this he slammed the door and locked it.
"Ah," said he, "it was an illusion like hers." But for all that he seized his hammer, and darted to the back of the hall, and mounting on a huge fragment of coal struck the seam high above his head. He gave two blows at longish intervals, and then three blows in quick succession. Grace heard, and began to raise herself on her hands in wonder.
He turned from the window and lit the lamp, and, wheeling round, held up the light to a photograph, and studied it with a pleased face. It was the portrait of a pretty girl, very sweetly grave, and looking as if it could be very sweetly vivacious. When he had looked at it for a longish time he nodded and smiled, as if the pictured lips had actually spoken to him.
"Then shall we just say no more about it; keep what has happened as a tender little secret between ourselves?" "Absolutely." "We will. Like something lovely and fragrant laid away in lavender." "In lavender right." There was a longish pause.
Back in a tram-car, an excellent place to sketch faces, your topee over your eyes, and sketch book behind a newspaper no one knows you are drawing. The following tram-car notes are of Burmese faces, except the face behind, with a look of cankered care on it; he is some kind of an Indian. After lunch to the palace a longish drive inland from the river.
He had made a rather longish voyage in a merchant-steamer, and during it used to amuse himself doing navigation work in company with her master, or mate. "Yes, that's all right," rejoined the other, "figures won't lie, if you work them right; but you must work them right, Mr. Balch."
It was a longish building with its gable ends turned away from the road, and long traceried windows coming rather low down set in the wall that faced us.
Then the Magician, who went about his work in perfect silence, with a knowing smile on his lips, opened several longish boxes, which Leo had guessed to be filled with fishing-rods or spare rifles, but which, it turned out, contained oars for the india-rubber boats. After that, the Captain opened another large case, which roused the surprise of his white followers as much as that of the natives.
Furze had had a longish walk one morning, and was rather tired. When he came home to dinner he found the house upset by one of its periodical cleanings, and consequently dinner was served upstairs, and not in the half-underground breakfast-room, as it was called, which was the real living-room of the family. Mr.
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