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Wet days were the great trial those drizzling, chilly days which have a disagreeable habit of intruding into our English summers. Darsie, shivering in a washing dress, "occupying herself quietly with her needlework" in the big grim morning-room, was in her most prickly and rebellious of moods. "Hateful to have such weather in summer! My fingers are so cold I can hardly work."
The examples of interior woodwork especially regarded by connoisseurs are the panelling in the morning-room, the elaborately carved mantel in the drawing-room, and the handsome doorway between that room and the dining-room. Upstairs, a central hallway runs through the house, double doors opening at both riverward and landward ends upon broad porticoes.
"Oh! no," said Vaura, taking his arm back to the sunlit morning-room, "she only goes occasionally to throw a white ball for a pretty woman." "I have sometimes come across her with Wingfield at the 'Abermarle'; she likes a little bass mixed with the treble of her life," said Trevalyon. "She is right," said Vaura, "one would grow weary of continually piping to the same key."
It ended in my venturing into the room on the ground-floor called the Morning-Room, to consult Mr. Macallan. He was usually to be found there in the forenoon of the day. "On this occasion, however, when I looked into the Morning-Room it was empty. "At the same moment I heard the master's voice on the terrace outside. I went out, and found him speaking to one Mr. Mr.
He drew himself together with an added touch of decision as he passed out into the corridor; and as he walked down-stairs he whistled a bar or two of an inspiriting tune. In the morning-room Eve was already waiting. She looked up, colored, and smiled as he entered. Her face looked very fresh and young and she wore a gown of the same pale blue that she had worn on his first coming.
"Well, I guess you'll have a fine healthy appetite for dinner," said Marina, as she showed her where to hang up her hat and wash her hands. Godmother was equally optimistic. From the sofa of the morning-room, where she sat knitting, she said: "Well, YOU'VE had a fine morning's gadding about I must say! How are you? And how's your dear mother?" "Quite well, thank you."
And what does Patrick Henry and Pendleton these days? I hear that Hamilton holds strange views about the finances and has spoken of them freely in Congress. What are they? My letters give me no details as yet." And more and more questions during the abundant breakfast which had been spread for them in the morning-room adjoining Mr. Jefferson's library.
Pryme, with his hands in his pockets, began once more to whistle, as though the events of the afternoon had never taken place. But love is such a mystery, I cannot find it out, For when I think I'm best resolved, I then am most in doubt." Sir J. Suckling. Lady Kynaston sat alone in her little morning-room; as far as she knew, she was alone in the house; Mrs.
Oh, yes; capital character. Stop here, of course. You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and, if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George, I should like to do it! What room's this? Morning-room, eh? And here's the dining-room, of course. Good heavens, what a table! it's as long as my yacht, and longer.
"How indeed!" said his father, rising; "that is just the puzzle. It will take you years to find it out. Lindy, look into the morning-room in about half an hour, and you will hear a tale whose lightest word will harrow up thy soul, etc., etc." As Lady Atherley kindly seconded this invitation I accepted it, though not with the consequences predicted.
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