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And I'm quite sure Sary gave Jeb his breakfast after I left the kitchen, so that gives us a clear start for the first meal to-day." Sary was found upon her knees before the kitchen range, polishing the nickel name-plate on the oven door. A dish-pan of hot water and a scrubbing brush stood upon the floor beside her. As Mrs. Brewster came in, Sary glanced up impatiently. "Ah de'clar t' goodness!
Right above me was the side of a big iron steamer called the City of Boston, as I made out from the weathered name-plate on her bows, and a packet-boat as I judged by her build rising so high out of the water that getting up to her deck was impossible: as equally impossible was my having forgotten it had I made such a rattling jump down.
He walked in, accosted the first man he saw, and was waved to a flight of stairs reaching a mezzanine floor. Gaining that he discovered in a short corridor a door bearing upon its name-plate the legend: Mr. John P. Henderson. Private. Thompson looked at his watch. It lacked but two minutes of ten. He knocked, and a voice bade him enter.
Her suspicion reasserted itself, and it was strengthened, against her reason, by the fact that Arthur Twemlow made no comment on John's invisibility. In the dusk of the spruce stable, where an enamelled name-plate over the manger of a loose box announced that 'Prince' was its pampered tenant, she opened the cornbin, and, entering the loose-box, offered the cob a handful of crushed oats.
Since those fat days, the name-plate of Brandenburg College had suffered many migrations, always in a materially downward direction, till now it was screwed on the railings of a stuffy little road in Shepherd's Bush, which, as Mavis was in the habit of declaring, was called West Kensington Park for "short."
She had gone one day to Brandenburg College to call on her old employers, but she found that the name-plate had been removed, and that the house was to let. She had made inquiries, to learn that her old friend Miss Annie Mee had died suddenly at Worthing, and also that Miss Helen had sold the school for what it would fetch, and no one knew what had become of her.
Once upon a time, its name-plate had decorated the gates of a stately old mansion in the Fulham of many years ago; here it was that Mrs Devitt, then Miss Hilda Spraggs, had been educated.
Still, a book is a book, especially when bound in blue and gold. Upon the gaily papered walls hung a framed silver name-plate and two pictures.
The judge, as though stunned, stared at Hannibal and stared at the rifle, where the rusted name-plate danced before his eyes. "What do you know of the Barony, Hannibal?" the words came slowly from the judge's lips, and his face had gone gray again. "I lived at the Barony once, until Uncle Bob took me to Scratch Hill to be with him. It were Mr.
The other alongside was covered wid superfine black cloth an' silver-mounted handles, an' name-plate, an' it was all padded inside an' lined wid white satin!" "White satin, Joe? You're jokin'." "As sure as your name's Molly, it was white satin," repeated Joe; "I wouldn't have belaived it av I hadn't seen it; but that's the way the quality goes to their graves.
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