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The "raking about London" presented so complete a contrast to the lonely life he had really passed, that Hartledon smiled in very bitterness. And the smile incensed the dowager, for she misunderstood it. "It's early days to begin! I don't think you ought to have married Maude." "I don't think I ought." She did not expect the rejoinder, and dropped her knife and fork. "Why did you marry her?"
I have no right at all; don't talk nonsense, Cynthia. After all, what is the use of raking up old reminiscences? I have always held that it is better to put the past behind us to live for the present and the future. All of us have memories that we would gladly forget. Why not make it a business of life to do so?" "'Forgetting those things which are behind," Cynthia murmured.
Before leaving her, he asked if she would accompany him to a morning instrumental concert at Melchester, which was to take place in the course of that week for the benefit of some local institution. 'Melchester, she repeated faintly, and observed him as searchingly as it was possible to do without exposing herself to a raking fire in return.
The Englishwoman began to cry, childishly, whimpering. "I can't bear it ... I can't bear it ... I wanted it for Rich' ... for Rich'!" The Indian did not speak, but his scornful, accusing eyes, raking them all, came to rest on Honor, fixing her with pitiless intensity. The girl was shaking so that she could hardly stand; she caught hold of the back of a tall chair to steady herself.
When he used to go to the country, this husband never went to bed without secretly raking over the pathways of his park, and he had a special rake for the sand of his terraces. He had made a close study of the footprints made by the different members of his household; and early in the morning he used to go and identify the tracks that had been made there.
Here you were, in the dead of night, telling ghost stories, and raking up your sins, with no cause whatever, instead of in your bed. You were to have lunched with us the next day I had asked Lady Harriet to meet you, too! and you didn't; and you have wretched patches where your hair ought to be. How can you promise that you'll not make a madder sensation some day?" Gaston smiled up at her.
Here have we been for three years, digging and ploughing, raking and hoeing, carting and milking, churning and and and what the better are we now?
As Jackson's advanced guards approached Chancellorsville, the resistance of the Federal skirmishers, covering the retreat, became more stubborn. From the low ridge, fringed by heavy timber, on which the mansion stands, the fire of artillery, raking every avenue of approach, grew more intense, and it was evident that the foe was standing fast on the defensive.
He was beginning to enjoy himself. "But you forget, I think, another little matter in the past that is known to me and that you would not like disclosed, I believe, sir." "You seem to have been raking things up, Colonel." "One must deal with a rogue according to his roguery," Colonel John retorted. Asgill's face grew dark. This was taking the buttons off with a vengeance.
Then we passed by an infinite number of little pimping wine-presses all full of vintage-mongers, who were picking, examining, and raking the grapes with some instruments called bills-of-charge. Finally we came into a hall downstairs, where we saw an overgrown cursed mangy cur with a pair of heads, a wolf's belly, and claws like the devil of hell.
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