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I have a particular respect for three or four high-backed claw-footed chairs, covered with tarnished brocade, which bear the marks of having seen better days, and have doubtless figured in some of the old palaces of Little Britain.
Ardagh put her handkerchief to her eyes. "William Foster," she answered. Catherine felt cold and numb. "William Foster I don't understand," she said slowly. Mrs. Ardagh rolled and unrolled her handkerchief with trembling fingers. "She got hold of that book that black, wicked book," she said, and there was a sort of fury in her voice. "It upset her faith. It tarnished her moral sense.
In the merciless morning light Julia saw all the deficiencies; the way things were set best side foremost, though, to her, the worst side contrived still to show; the display there was everywhere, the trumpery silver ornaments, all tarnished for want of rubbing, and of no more intrinsic value and beauty than the tinfoil off champagne bottles; the cracked pieces of china rummage sale relics, she called them set forth in a glass-doored cabinet, as if they were heirlooms.
He found an ewer and basin, and his ablutions refreshed and invigorated him. He searched for his raiment, and discovered it all except the mantle, dagger, hat, and girdle; and while looking for these, his eye fell on an old tarnished steel mirror. He started as if he had seen his ghost; was it possible that his hardy face could have waned into that pale and almost femininely delicate visage?
Do you know what I mean by that?" "I don't know, and I don't care," said the Jew. He moved off a little way, and, taking some tarnished spoons from a box, began to rub them with a piece of leather. "I daresay you can take a hint as well as anybody else," said the other. "Have you seen that before?" He threw something on the counter, and the Jew started, despite himself, as he glanced up.
Through it all marching or fighting, sick, wounded thrice and again; praised, admired, heroic, promoted, from private soldier to general, through two years and more of such fiery experience, no part of the tender love was burned away, tarnished, or dimmed.
Every young man's past is tarnished, he continued, for he could not forget that Jacob had begun by losing his master's dogs, two had been killed by panthers. Nor was this the only misfortune that had befallen him.
The chamber in which they usually met had probably been a saloon of state in former times. The floor was of marble; the walls partially covered with remains of tapestry; the chairs, richly carved and gilt, were crazed with age, and covered with tarnished and tattered brocade. Against the wall hung a long rusty rapier, the only relic that the old man retained of the chivalry of his ancestors.
But the white flag still waved in the distance, affording perfect security to those who had confided in their honor, and although liberty and prosperity, and glory were the sacrifice, that honor might not be tarnished.
They could see a brass ring, crusted with verdigris, fastened to a partly-exposed piece of wood. The sand flew. Now they could see studded strips of metal bound to the wood, and a rusty padlock. And in a few minutes a whole chest, with slanting sides and a curved lid and tarnished brass hinges, was uncovered. David threw the spade on the beach, seized the brass handle, and tugged.
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