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She was panting heavily by the time she was upon the verandah, and seemed about ready to drop from weariness. "Why, Hettie!" Mrs. Hampton exclaimed, as she rose to receive her. "What is the matter? You look tired out. Sit here, while I get you some refreshment." "No, no, I mustn't sit down," the visitor replied, as she glanced apprehensively around. "Gabe might come at any minute.
One room was much like another, with its camp-beds and table, and its miscellaneous assortment of camel-trunks and tin cases piled up at the back or serving as seats; and each verandah was graced by two long chairs, usually to be found in sociable proximity, with a view to the better enjoyment of the occupants' brief periods of leisure.
Nothing of emotion could be seen on his face, disfigured already by the loathsome disease. "Do they know?" he asked at last, pointing to the persons on the verandah, now sitting in unusual, unaccountable silence. "These natives know the signs so well," said the doctor. "They were afraid to tell you." Strickland stepped to the door and looked out.
The latter was paramount till late years, when turbulent and unruly Béin was allowed to set up for herself an independent king; and the sooner things return to the status quo ante the better for peace. King Blay's guest-house of whitewashed swish is a model of its kind. You pass through a large compound, which contains the outhouses, into a broad, deep verandah, generally facing away from the sea.
That is his house among the trees," pointing to a cottage with a verandah about it, which stood back some distance from the main street. "But if you wish to see Mr. Macfarren, you will find him down at the other end of the street at the finishing post.
The first look at the large group of men and women lolling on the wide verandah of the hotel convinced Jimmy that none of these knew of anything big breaking. News sleuths, do not act the way these did with something big. They are up and moving. He went back to the police station. There was nothing new there. He called up Justice Higginbotham's camp and spoke to McGuire. There was nothing there.
And when he finally rose to leave the verandah and seek out the foreman and report himself for duty, it was with a genuine feeling of relief at leaving the presence of those dreadful red eyes. Diane was packing up the tea-things, and Tresler still lingered on the verandah; he was watching the blind man as he tapped his way into the house.
But ask the untutored villager who has guided you up the hill; and straightway comes the answer: "Sahib, these were not built by man, but by the Gods ere man came hither!" Outside the cave is a pleasant verandah and balus trade, whence you look down over the bare lower slopes to the garden-studded course of the river.
Dinah spent her Sunday afternoon seated in a far corner of the verandah, inditing a very laboured epistle to her mother a very different affair from the gay little missives she scribbled to her father every other day. The letter to her mother was a duty which must of necessity be accomplished, and perhaps in consequence she found it peculiarly distasteful.
The cigar was already almost at an end, when the voice of a young girl was heard suddenly crying the hour from the interior of the house. "In a moment," replied John Vandeleur. And, with that, he threw away the stump, and, taking up the lantern, sailed away under the verandah for the night.
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