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Would Elinor Butler's father and mother consent to her taking this long journey? Would Mrs. Price be willing to part with Mary for many, many months while that young person journeyed to the other side of the world? Captain Brown settled himself on a settee in front of the crackling driftwood fire and Nancy seated herself beside him.
Over the bunk were three more rifles. Under the bunk was a big drawer, which, when he pulled it out, he found filled with ammunition, dynamite, and several boxes of detonators. He elected to take the settee on the opposite side. Lying conspicuously on the small table, was the Arla's log.
As you face these windows, you have on your right the fireplace, with a few logs smouldering in it, and a couple of comfortable library chairs on the hearthrug; beyond it and beside it the door; before you the writing-table, at which the clerical gentleman sits a little to your left facing the door with his right profile presented to you; on your left a settee; and on your right a couple of Chippendale chairs.
In the mean time, Marmaduke and his daughter were closeted for more than an hour, nor shall we invade the sanctuary of parental love, by relating the conversation. When the curtain rises on the reader, the Judge is seen walking up and down the apartment, with a tender melancholy in his air, and his child reclining on a settee, with a flushed cheek, and her dark eyes seeming to float in crystals.
The word bottom thus introduced, was so ludicrous when contrasted with his gravity, that most of us could not forbear tittering and laughing; though I recollect that the Bishop of Killaloe kept his countenance with perfect steadiness, while Miss Hannah More slyly hid her face behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her.
'She wants to know whether I'm worth powder and shot, he thought. "You wish to paint my nieces?" Mrs. Decie said at last, leaning back on her settee. "I wish to have that honour," Harz answered with a bow. "And what sort of picture did you think of?" "That," said Harz, "is in the future. I couldn't tell you."
Ah! that lame and halting Charity, which proffers help when men are dead! The priest still lingered on the settee when the Baroness rose. She had seen magistrate Amadieu hurriedly enter like one who just wished to show himself, purchase some trifle, and then return to the Palace of Justice.
Sunk in the recesses of his favourite settee the Oldest Member had watched him with silent sympathy. "How did you get on?" he inquired. "He beat me." The Oldest Member nodded his venerable head. "You have had a trying time, if I am not mistaken. I feared as much when I saw you go out with Pobsley.
It's the cosiest place in the whole house." A huge fire burned on an open hearth, about which a deep lounge and several easy-chairs were arrayed. "That will be O.K.," said Lucas. "Fix me up on the settee, Nap." "You had better go and rest in your room," said Nap. "Bertie and Miss Waring are accustomed to entertaining each other." Again Dot felt the sting this time a tangible one in his words.
While they were contending, Flanagan, who had fired herself up with half a pint of whisky, came storming through the door in a blind rage and screaming out, "Where's my Nell? I want my Nell!" Catching sight of the child's inanimate form lying on the settee, she pounced down upon it like some foul bird and bore it off, cursing and striking the senseless clay in her insane fury.
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