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Goldmark attended to the funeral guests in the upstairs regions, she herself was waiting in the back-parlour for these other visitors.
Thus, with the utterance of this name in the prim, archaic, stuffy little back-parlour, Meshach raised the curtain on the last act of a drama which had slumbered for fifteen years, since the death of William Twemlow, and which the principal actors in it had long thought to be concluded or suppressed.
As for his hearers, they first looked at each other and then at him, and Guyler laughed and went on. "That makes you jump!" he said. "Well, now, at the end of that inquest business in the papers the other day I noticed Spencer Levendale's name mentioned in connection with some old book that was left, or found in Mr. Daniel Multenius's back-parlour.
Pertinax Fillgrave. Presently the Doctor, who was a little thin man, came bustling across the street, and was about, with a familiar "Good evening," to pass by the Corporal, when that worthy, dropping his pipe, said respectfully, "Beg pardon, Sir want to speak to you a little favour. Will your honour walk in the back-parlour?"
For power, for no other consideration, those manufacturing rascals have raised Radicalism from its primaeval mire from its petty backslum bookseller's shop and public-house back-parlour effluvia of oratory to issue dictates in England, and we, England, formerly the oak, are topsy-turvy, like onions, our heels in the air!
Ravis was reading to her husband, who lay on the sofa in the back-parlour smoking a cigar. Stanley had gone out to make a call, while Howard and Virginia had forgathered in the bathroom to sail their boats and cigar boxes in the tub. Toward half-past three, as Turner was in her room writing letters, the door-bell rang. She stopped, with her pen in the air, wondering if it might be Vandover.
Bill took his 'ands out of 'is pockets when he saw 'im and came toward 'im. "It's no good to-night, mate," he ses; and to Ginger's great surprise shook 'ands with 'im. "No good?" ses Ginger, staring. "No," ses Bill; "he's in the little back-parlour, like a whelk in 'is shell; but we'll 'ave 'im sooner or later." "Him? Who?" ses Ginger, more puzzled than ever.
'Painfully aware, Miss Dorrit, I am sure, said Flora, 'that to propose an adjournment to any place to one so far removed by fortune and so courted and caressed by the best society must ever appear intruding even if not a pie-shop far below your present sphere and a back-parlour though a civil man but if for the sake of Arthur cannot overcome it more improper now than ever late Doyce and Clennam one last remark I might wish to make one last explanation I might wish to offer perhaps your good nature might excuse under pretence of three kidney ones the humble place of conversation.
Miss Jenny's father had advised there till he departed; after which event, the widow and her son confided in his heiress. Master Harry Phipps was not what would be called a successful young man. He was not either wild or remarkably stupid, as the world goes; his mother knew him to be a dear domestic fellow, who would play the flute or dominos for weeks of evenings in her back-parlour.
On coming down from his bedroom he at once went into the back-parlour on the ground floor, which Mr Longestaffe called his study, and which Mr Melmotte had used since he had been in Mr Longestaffe's house for the work which he did at home. He would be there often early in the morning, and often late at night after Lord Alfred had left him.
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