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In moving towards the door she chanced to see her image in a mirror two of a large size adorned the room and it checked her step; she regarded herself gravely, and passed a smoothing hand over the dark hair above her temples. By a corridor she reached her friends' sitting-room, where Mrs. Spence sat in the company of two gentlemen. The elder of these was Edward Spence.
He sank and did not rise again.... The little fellow, left alone, began to shout wildly: "Paul! Paul!" But the other did not come to the surface. Then he darted across the mountain, falling among the stones, overcome by the most frightful anguish that can wring a child's heart, and with a face like death reached the sitting-room, where his parents were waiting.
His wife glanced significantly about Young Thomas's big, untidy sitting-room, where there were cobwebs on the ceiling and fluff in the corners and dust on the mop-board, and said nothing, but looked volumes. "Dang it all," said Young Thomas, as they drove away, "they'll marry me yet in spite of myself." The gossip made him think about Adelia Williams.
I got up and dressed as fast as I could; for I was aching all over with the fatigue of the day before. Out into the sitting-room; the table was laid for breakfast, but no one was there. I passed into the house beyond, up the stairs, blindly seeking for the room where I might know whether it was life or death.
At four Ayling tapped at her door to say that there was in the sitting-room "an absolutely enormous tea." That night, before a beautiful fire in the sitting-room, they caught each other yawning at half past nine, and at ten they said good-night. It had been so perfect that the next day found them following the same routine. And the next day, and the next.
Fortunately the establishment was able to offer her exactly what she required, one of the invalids' suites which were a special feature of the house a little sitting-room and bedroom for the use of persons whose infirmities made a long walk between their own apartments and the sun-parlor inadvisable.
She had taken him into her own little sitting-room, she had thrown aside gloves and fan and theatre wrap, curled herself comfortably into the abundantly cushioned corner by the fire, and proceeded to a mixture of cross-examination and tirade that he found it difficult to make head against. She was vibrating between distressed solicitude and resentful anger.
In the deserted sitting-room was a writing-table, and Jennie sat down beside it, motioning Fleming to a chair opposite her. 'Now, she said, drawing some paper towards her, and taking up a pen, 'what is this important bit of news? 'Well, before we begin, replied Fleming, 'I would like to tell you why I interfered on shipboard and let that Englishman know who you were. 'Never mind that.
Carmen, who showed to Margaret only her best side she would have been wise to exhibit no other to Henderson, but women of her nature are apt to cheapen themselves with men seemed an embodiment of that graceful gayety and fascinating worldliness which make the world agreeable. One morning, a few days after the Indian function, Margaret was alone in her own cozy sitting-room.
Damaris looked radiantly beautiful as she stood for a moment at the window of her godmother's sitting-room, into which she had gone to fetch a fan.
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