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On their first evening together in the stuffy little law office which had been his father's, Kent had made a clean breast of it: there was a young woman in the case, and a promise passed before Kent had gone to college.

At its touch the mass of steel swung inward noiselessly as the door of a bank-vault. With the swinging of the door there reached us the hot, stuffy smell of unwashed bodies under steam-heat the unmistakable odor that one sometimes meets in a court-room. Marny and I stepped inside.

'Ay, come in an' ha'e a cup o' tea or summat. You'll do wi' summat, carrin' that bod. Come on, Maggie wench, let's go in. So we went indoors, into the rather stuffy, overcrowded living-room, that was too cosy, and too warm. The son followed last, standing in the doorway. The father talked to me. Maggie put out the tea-cups. The mother went into the dairy again.

How he hung on in that stuffy room under the great sword so long was a marvel to me, and would be pronounced impossible by sanitary authorities in England. Nevertheless, he did live on for a twelvemonth after I left the town. When about to depart, I said to the English chaplain: "Old Schreiber can't last long; he must smother shortly. Keep an eye on the sword for me, there's a good fellow.

"Do you know where General Daniel Carvel lives?" "Yes, sah, reckon I does. I Street, sah. Jump right in, sah." Virginia sank back on the stuffy cushions of the rattle-trap, and then sat upright again and stared out of the window at the dismal scene. They were splashing through a sea of mud. Ever since they had left St.

"It will be frightfully hot and stuffy here," he said to himself, "and I should say the lower berths will be cooler than the upper." He therefore placed his trunk in one of those next to the central passage and near the door, and then went up on deck. The Parthia was a Cunarder, and although not equal in size to the great ships of the present day, was a very fine vessel.

The walls of his bedroom, like those of corridor and hall, were bare; the furniture solid and old-fashioned; scanty, perhaps, yet more than he was accustomed to; and the spaciousness was very pleasant after the cramped quarters of stuffy London lodgings.

Brent's milk-cart nearly every day, and we sit in the stuffy schoolroom, and Notya's cross." "You make her cross on purpose," Helen said. "She shouldn't let me," Miriam answered with perspicuity. "But it's so silly to make ugliness. It's wicked. Do be good, and let's try to enjoy the lessons and get them over." But Miriam was not to be influenced by these wise counsels.

You've been shut up in that hateful old room for three days now without a morsel to eat, and in all likelihood without a wink of sleep. You'll kill yourself with your stuffy old experiments." The man's face softened. "Don't worry about me, sweetheart," he replied in a well controlled voice. "I'll soon be through now soon be through and then we'll go away for a long vacation for a long vacation."

"Perhaps this is the way the bon Dieu has of expressing his disapproval of us," said Judith. "Why should he disapprove?" I asked. A shrug of her shoulders ended in a shiver. "I am chilled through." "My dear girl," I cried, "why on earth haven't you lit the fire?" "The last time I lit it you said the room was stuffy."