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But these doubtful subjects were counterbalanced by an equal number illustrative of the Pilgrim's Progress, beginning at the sofa-back with the Slough of Despond, going through the Wicket Gate, past fierce Giant Pope and up craggy Hills of Difficulty to a flaming Celestial City apparently being destroyed by fire with extreme rapidity.
Stalking along the top of the sofa-back and bearing erect the bushy banner of her magnificent tail, she looked the most ridiculous creature imaginable.
Madame de Treymes, who had moved toward the door, paused at this and faced him, resting her thin brown hands on a slender sofa-back. "How do you propose to show that sense?" she enquired. Durham coloured still more deeply: he saw that she was determined to save her pride by making what he had to say of the utmost difficulty.
The room was rather cold, but of that the waiter gave a reasonable explanation in the fact that the fire had not been burning long. Furs however might be dispensed with, or Fleda thought so; and taking off her bonnet she endeavoured to rest her weary head against the sharp-cut top of the sofa-back, which seemed contrived expressly to punish and forbid all attempts at ease-seeking.
'That is silly, said Frau Ebermann. 'The people fired on us, and they were punished. Those places are wiped out, stamped flat. 'Yes, yes, wiped out, stamped flat. That is why and I have lost the ribbon off my pigtail, said the younger girl. She looked behind her over the sofa-back. 'It is not here, said the elder. 'It was lost before. Don't you remember?
Things do matter, said the Russian Jew. Jane looked at him kindly. She was a year younger than he was, but felt five years older to-night. 'Well, what's the remedy then? He said, wearily, 'Oh, education, I suppose. Education. There's nothing else. Learning. He said the word with affection, lingering on it, striking his hand on the sofa-back to emphasise it. 'Learning, learning, learning.
The room was rather cold, but of that the waiter gave a reasonable explanation in the fact that the fire had not been burning long. Furs, however, might be dispensed with, or Fleda thought so; and taking off her bonnet, she endeavoured to rest her weary head against the sharp-cut top of the sofa-back, which seemed contrived expressly to punish and forbid all attempts at ease- seeking.
From Edinburgh came out the familiar furniture he had been brought up among, which had been the stage scenery of his chimney-corner days, when the back bed-room chairs became a ship, and the sofa-back was his hunter's camp. At Vailima he, like Ibsen's Peer Gynt, received "a race gift from his childhood's home."
His friend once more extended his wide-open hands, without raising his head from the sofa-back, and said again, with a stronger accent on the first syllable: "Steady!" Benedetto was silent. "It appears to me, caro mio," said the friend, turning his head alone towards his colleague, "that this promises to be the first time your eloquence has failed you.
George returned gravely, his head resting on the top of the sofa-back and his eyes on the ceiling. "You know perfectly what I mean. I haven't read twenty pages of your book without seeing that you can't help it." "You make me very miserable," Paul ecstatically breathed. "I'm glad of that, for it may serve as a kind of warning.
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