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It was a long apartment containing two rows of plain deal tables; and the only other articles of furniture were numerous rush-seated tavern chairs, with an additional table which served as a sideboard. The whitewashed walls and the flooring of shiny, red tiles looked, however, extremely clean amidst this intentional bareness, which was similar to that of a monkish refectory.
She was sitting on one of the two rush-seated chairs, with her back to the door, when he came in, and she said at once: "Sit down, Jon, I want to talk seriously." Jon sat on the table by her side, and without looking at him she went on: "If you don't want to lose me, we must get married." Jon gasped. "Why? Is there anything new?" "No, but I felt it at Robin Hill, and among my people."
There is also that peculiarly unpleasant smell so often given out by the burning wax that greets one on entering the cool twilight of the building. The worn and tattered appearance of the rush-seated chairs in the churches is easily explained when one sees the almost constant use to which they are put.
The small, white-haired man sat down in the rush-seated chair. The big man hesitated, separated his coat tails, and then he, too, sat down. And the music box under the seat of the chair he sat in informed everyone with cheerful vigor that the Campbells were coming, Hurrah! Hurrah! Captain Shadrach Gould arose from that chair, arose promptly and without hesitation. Mr.
"But hang it all, what could I do? They were in my place," I broke out. He chuckled, enjoying my discomfiture. Then his eyes fell on those absurd and solemn chairs again. "Look at 'em the Art Shades in conference!" he chuckled. "That rush-seated one, it was talking half an hour ago about 'Scherzos in Silver and Grey! ... Nice, fresh green stuff!"
The second Sunday they had all gone in the evening to the English church with Fraulein Pfaff... rush-seated chairs with a ledge for books, placed very close together and scrooping on the stone floor with the movements of the congregation... a little gathering of English people.
Baines, Edward, Mary said quietly; and then, having rearranged the sick man's pillow, she vanished out of the room and went into the kitchen. The gas-jet there showed only a point of blue, but she did not turn it up. Dragging an old oak rush-seated rocking-chair near to the range, where a scrap of fire still glowed, she rocked herself gently in the darkness. After about half an hour Mr.
The furniture of a Spanish sitting-room is made up, as a rule, of whitewash on the walls, and a good supply of eighteenpenny rush-seated chairs scattered about the tiled floor. This is on account of the climate, which at times makes all appearances of coolness to be highly appreciated. But the anarchist was not a Spaniard, nor an Italian, nor anything else so narrow.
She was sitting on one of the two rush-seated chairs, with her back to the door, when he came in, and she said at once "Sit down, Jon, I want to talk seriously." Jon sat on the table by her side, and without looking at him she went on: "If you don't want to lose me, we must get married." Jon gasped. "Why? Is there anything new?" "No, but I felt it at Robin Hill, and among my people."
The chapel was at the end of a long whitewashed corridor upon the airy floor above. His keen glance took in every feature of the simple, spotless little sanctuary as the tall, black-clad figure swept noiselessly to the upper end of the aisle between the rows of rush-seated chairs, and knelt for an instant in veneration of the Divine Presence hidden in the Tabernacle.
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