United States or Iraq ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Whatever life and motion there might have been in the basement, were sheltered from observation by conical firs or square-clipped box borders, set out on strictly geometrical principles in each of the four front yards. The doors were ponderous and tight fitting, as if they were never meant to be opened; and the vivid polish of their surfaces showed no trace of human handling.
Suddenly Charity heard a woman's laugh behind her. The sound was familiar, and she turned to look. A band of showily dressed girls and dapper young men wearing badges of secret societies, with new straw hats tilted far back on their square-clipped hair, had invaded the balcony and were loudly clamouring for a table. The girl in the lead was the one who had laughed.
His lips parted once or twice under their square-clipped stubble, and at last emitted: "How much more do you want?" Millner broke into a laugh. "Oh, I've got all I want all and more!" "What from the others? Are you crazy?" "No, you are," said Millner with a sudden recovery of composure. "But you're safe you're as safe as you'll ever be. Only I don't care to take this for making you so." Mr.
Waddington fancied, a little truculent, with his great square face and square-clipped red moustache, and on each side of Colonel Grainger and behind him were the neighbouring gentry and the townspeople of Wyck, the two grocers, the two butchers, the drapers and hotel keeper, and behind them again the servants of the Manor and a crowd of shop assistants; and further and further back, farm labourers and artisans; among these he recognized Ballinger with several of Colonel Grainger's and Hitchin's men.
Word Of The Day