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Just as I was falling asleep I remember there floated through my mind a vague recollection of what Angus had said to me of asking his advice about something; and I wondered if he would reach the subject in their talk, or if they would spend all their time in poring over manuscripts and books together. The moor wore its most mysterious look when I got up in the early morning.
That very night he solemnly laid open the first volume at the first page, propping it on a couple of meaner books, and, after glancing through the short Preface, began to read with a mind as devoutly disposed as that of any pious believer poring upon his Bible.
While I was poring on these titles I heard movements overhead previously there had been no sound whatever and with guilty haste I restored the candle to the table and placed myself negligently in front of the fire. "Now don't let me see ye up here any more till I fetch ye!" said a woman's distant voice not crossly, but firmly. And then, crossly: "Be off with ye now!"
She sat earnestly poring over the book for half an hour or more, and then she looked up and said: "I really cannot make out what this part means. Excuse my troubling you, but I would be very glad if you would explain the latter part of this passage." "Me!" exclaimed Mr. Tolman. "Why, my good madam, miss, I mean, I couldn't explain it to you if it were to save my life.
Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand."
I have spent hours poring over books of prints, studying Vandyke and Sir Peter Lely, and I have let you wear some of my most valuable lace; and as for indulgence of your whims! Pray when have I ever thwarted you in anything?" "Forgive me, mamma!" cried Vixen penitently. She divined dimly even in the midst of that flood of bitter feeling in which her young soul was overwhelmed that Mrs.
Clerks, servants, labourers, &c., provided with suitable situations. Terms moderate. N.B. The oldest established office in the town. "Wanted, a good cook. An under gardener." What he sought was here! Philip entered, and saw a short fat man with spectacles, seated before a desk, poring upon the well-filled leaves of a long register. "Sir," said Philip, "I wish for a situation. I don't care what."
For Pet being well up in his favorite tree poring with great wonder over Lyrical Ballads, which took his fancy somehow thence descried the hateful form of Dr. Spraggs, too surely approaching in the seat of honor of the jumping-car. Was ever any poesy of such power as to elevate the soul above the smell of physic?
An' as there was nothin' on it to tell where it might be, I don't know as there's anything for us to do. Like as not it's on some little island as isn't set down, so 'twould be scant use to look over the ship's charts. Still, I'll try it." A half-day of poring over the maps produced no result.
Those few lines in Sampson Wilmot's letter suggested a motive. The young lawyer dropped into a chair, and sat for some minutes silently poring over the clerk's letter. He did not like Henry Dunbar. His generous young heart, which had yearned towards Laura's father, had sunk in his breast with a dull, chill feeling of disappointment, at his first meeting with the rich man.
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