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There were great shells on the mantelpiece, a stuffed owl on a sideboard, and lots of other quaint curiosities on some shelves in a recess. Then she climbed into a big rocking-chair. 'This is lovely, she said; 'it's almost as good as a rocking-horse, if you go very fast. The old man stood looking at her for a minute; then seated himself on the low window-seat, and went on smoking.
"I presume," said Jackson, coming in and sitting lankly down in the feather-cushioned rocking-chair which his mother pushed toward him with her foot, "that the expense would be more at Harvard than it would at the other colleges." "If you want the best you got to pay for it," said Mrs. Durgin. "I suppose it would cost more," Westover answered Jackson's conjecture.
Whitman is one of them." Mrs. Jim Jones felt fairly defrauded. "Then you don't feel bad?" said she, in a crestfallen way. "Nobody feels bad here," said Sylvia. "I guess nobody in East Westland feels bad unless it's you, and nobody wants you to." After Mrs. Jim Jones had gone, Sylvia went into her bedroom and sat down in a rocking-chair by the one window.
Everything was precisely as he remembered it: the simple, old-fashioned furniture, the crossed quirts over the high wooden mantel, his mother's rocking-chair ... that was the final touch; he sat down on the worn door-log and put his face in his hands. For now the gaping chasm of the years was quite closed and he was a boy again.
He put off the luxury of opening the letter till after the rites of brushing his teeth, putting on his slippers, pounding his rocking-chair cushion into softness. Panting with the joy to come, he stared out of the window at a giant and glorious figure of Istra the laughing Istra of breakfast camp-fire which towered from the street below.
"Of course," said Margaret, crossing the room and sitting down in a rocking-chair. "Of course. A man thinks every woman's good but his wife." "Had to break out, didn't you? Have I said you wan't good?" "Might as well say it as to act it." "How am I actin' it?" "By not lovin' me, that's how." "Not lovin' you. Have you got any postal-kyard or tillygram to that effeck? I ain't sent you no sich news.
In the toll-woman's living room there was a cupboard fringed with tissue paper, a rocking-chair cushioned in red calico, curtains to match, a cooking-stove so small it seemed made for a play-thing, and yellow chairs having gold-leaf ornaments on their backs. She herself was a straight, flat woman, looking much broader in a front or back view than when she stood sidewise toward you.
Old Man Haley, squatting in the rocking-chair made from a barrel, whispered cheering intelligence: they'd about given up the hunt, thought he had died in the chaparral. Someone had seen birds circling round a spot off toward the hills behind Angels. The next day when Garland told his intention of moving on to San Francisco, the old man was uneasy.
An hour later, Kenneth arose from his seat on the front doorstep and stole over to the sitting-room window. She was asleep in the big rocking-chair, her head twisted limply toward her left shoulder, presenting a three-quarters view of her face to him as he gazed long and ardently upon her. He could see the deep rise and fall of her bosom.
The Baltimore widow had his attention: "It is possible that the drip from your faucet and the squeak in your rocking-chair gets on your nerves, my dear lady, but not more than your daily caterwauling on the hotel piano gets on mine. "I shall miss your check, certainly, Mr.
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