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He should like to ask the lecturer if he could give the name of one single scientific farmer who had prospered? Having said this much, the old gentleman put on his overcoat and busted out of the room, and several others followed him, for the rain was already splashing against the window-panes. Others looked at their watches, and, seeing it was late, rose one by one and slipped off.
His voice, which he did not transmit, was very suave, with a fine command of cynical intonation. By altering it ever so little he could make people wince, especially if they were simple or poor. Nor did he transmit his eyes. Their peculiar flatness, as if the soul looked through dirty window-panes, the unkindness of them, the cowardice, the fear in them, were to trouble the world no longer.
"Yes, I am a Christian?" "What is a Christian?" "He who, being baptized baptized baptized " She went up the steps of the staircase holding on to the banisters, and when she was in her room threw herself into an armchair. The whitish light of the window-panes fell with soft undulations.
A few score yards brought them to the spot where the town band was now shaking the window-panes with the strains of "The Roast Beef of Old England." The building before whose doors they had pitched their music-stands was the chief hotel in Casterbridge namely, the King's Arms.
And, when nature has made us beautiful and gifted, people take pleasure in judging us severely, as they might look at the summer days through dark-tinted window-panes. We are always refused recognition. The first feeling which any work that we perform arouses is one of doubt. Its merit is disputed.
He left the coral on the floor near the bed, stole down the ladder, reached his own room, took up his brief-bag, locked his door, slipped the key in the rat-hole, where the trusty, plundered Beck alone could find it, and went boldly downstairs; passing successively the doors within which still stormed the resurrection-man, still wailed the child, still shrieked the Irish shrew, he paused at the ground-floor occupied by Bill the cracksman and his long-fingered, slender, quick-eyed imps, trained already to pass through broken window-panes, on their precocious progress to the hulks.
"Zeigler," said one, when he recovered speech, "that's too big a contract for you; you can't deliver the goods." "You'll have to pay for those window-panes you shook out," added the other. "I've got a set of boxing-gloves here," growled Zeigler, who tried to assume an indifference, as he brushed off his clothes and looked up with flaming face. "I'd like to try you with them."
Bertha heard the rain beating against the window-panes and a sensation as of being at home came over her. Then she felt as though Emil was lifting her up and carrying her. Without letting her out of his arms he had stood up and was slowly bearing her out of the room. She felt her right arm graze against the curtain.... She kept her eyes closed; she could feel Emil's cool breath upon her hair....
The distressing feature was the abominable beds, but as these prevailed in most of the country hotels at which we stopped we shall not lay this up too strongly against the Saracen's Head. I noticed that on one of the window-panes someone had scribbled with a diamond, "Sept. 4, 1726," which would seem to indicate that the original window was there at that time.
And when the rain lashed at the window-panes and it got dark early, and when the walls of the churches and houses looked a drab, dismal colour, days when one doesn't know what to put on when one is going out such days excited them agreeably. At last near the station they took a cab.
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