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The situation had something more even than the usual window-seat advantages; it had qualities as of a common shipwreck, of their being cast away on a desolate island together. He felt more than ever that he must protect this helpless loveliness, since it had begun to please his imagination. "You don't criticise," he said. "Is that because you are so amiable? I'm sure you could, if you would."
She followed Miss Carr into the drawing-room and sank into the window-seat beside Juliet, who was bending over her embroidery frame. Then she laughed a full, frank laugh. "You dear women," she said, "if you knew the lot of a politician's wife, you'd marry a footman." "Provided he were Dudley Webb," returned Emma Carr.
The advantages of having a jujube-tree for a husband are obvious. You cannot hurt his feelings, and he looks imposing. Lalun's husband stood on the plain outside the City walls, and Lalun's house was upon the east wall facing the river. If you fell from the broad window-seat you dropped thirty feet sheer into the City Ditch.
It counts against a fellow so; and there's some more too 'All right, Pater. Just stand clear of our photo-bracket, will you? The little formality over, there was a pause. Winton swung round, yawned in Pot's astonished face and staggered towards the window-seat. 'What's the matter with you, Dick? Ill? 'No. Perfectly all right, thanks.
"I have a lively appreciation, at this instant, of Cassandra's agonies when Troilus named her 'our mad sister! 'Woe! woe! woe! Let us pay betimes A moiety of that mass of moans to come!" Laughing anew at her frantic rush from the chamber, Mabel sat down in the broad window-seat to read her love-letter.
But the darkness was still intense on this side, there was no tell-tale light in the chinks of the shutters, and she was forced, after watching for several moments, to conclude that nothing was amiss in this region. Then she went to the window facing the ocean, pushed Rags aside a trifle, and cuddled down beside him on the window-seat. The dawn was growing every moment brighter.
Bureau drawers yawned; furniture was pulled about; the window-seat held a mass of underwear, shoes and dresses; but the faces of the We Are Sevens reflected pride and approval. "Aunt Lucinda," Blue Bonnet called, "Sarah says she will come over Saturday and help sew the markers on my clothes. Isn't that lovely?" "It is very kind of Sarah, I am sure."
Ralph was again within, reclining on a window-seat, while the pack of reckless banditti swarmed over him. "Have the rhymes been behaving themselves this morning?"
Carloman, whom Richard often saved from his brother's unkindness, clung closer and closer to him, went with him everywhere, tried to do all he did, grew very fond of Osmond, and liked nothing better than to sit by Richard in some wide window-seat, in the evening, after supper, and listen to Richard's version of some of Fru Astrida's favourite tales, or hear the never-ending history of sports at Centeville, or at Rollo's Tower, or settle what great things they would both do when they were grown up, and Richard was ruling Normandy perhaps go to the Holy Land together, and slaughter an unheard-of host of giants and dragons on the way.
I knew it to be the old man’s will which she was hiding, thus defrauding the just claimants of their rights. “Her hands trembled, and her whole appearance denoted guilty trepidation. At length, however, the lid was raised, but just as she was about to replace the parchment in the chest, a figure glided silently from a dark corner of the window-seat and confronted her.
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