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She did not answer, and presently she got up and said she was going to bed. She gave a timid little smile. "It's Christmas Day, Philip, won't you kiss me good-night?" He gave a laugh, blushed slightly, and kissed her. She went to her bed-room and he began to read. The climax came two or three weeks later. Mildred was driven by Philip's behaviour to a pitch of strange exasperation.
He really gave us a line to one of his acquaintance who kept a chandler's shop not far from St. Martin's Lane; there we hired a bed-room, up two pair of stairs, at the rate of two shillings per week, so very small, that when the bed was let down, we were obliged to carry out every other piece of furniture that belonged to the apartment, and use the bedstead by way of chairs.
Again she smiled, and each time she smiled straight at me like that, I confess frankly I grew less cautious. "Do you remember when Captain Whiteclett came to arrest you, your bed-room door was open just for a minute?" I did remember now and recalled her face outside and its very expression vividly.
I could not say whether he lay there any longer, and if he did, how many men Nutter might have about him by this time. So, Sir, the cast was made, I could not mend it, and must abide my fortune be it good or ill. 'Not a servant saw me go out or return. I came in quietly, and went into my bed-room and lighted a candle. 'Twas a blunder, a blot, but a thousand to one it was not hit.
Captain Lake having given orders the evening before, that anyone who might call in the morning, and ask to see him, should be shown up to his bed-room sans ceremonie, was roused from deep slumber at a quarter past ten, by a knock at his door, and a waiter's voice. 'Who's that? drawled Captain Lake, rising, pale and half awake, on his elbow, and not very clear where he was.
In this lecture, "sweet and holy," the hours passed away till it became time for me to dress. Mr. Jonson then took me into the penetralia of his bed-room. I stumbled against an enormous trunk. On hearing the involuntary anathema this accident conjured up to my lips, Jonson said "Ah, Sir! do oblige me by trying to move that box." I did so, but could not stir it an inch.
"Then would you do me the favour to beg Mrs. Jones to oblige me with her company for half an hour or so? There is an excellent fire in my room, and perhaps Mrs. Jones would not object to step there." Aunt Letty promised that Mrs. Jones should be sent, merely suggesting the breakfast-parlour, instead of the bed-room; and to the breakfast-parlour Mr.
But she got past without touching or stumbling, opened the door, whisked through that was done too quickly, but she could not help it, she shut, bolted the door, and ran across the ante-chamber to Lady Davenant's bed-room. She entered softly, aware of the danger to her of sudden alarm. But Lady Davenant was not asleep, was not alarmed, but was effective in a moment.
There were several engravings fastened against the wall; and in the anteroom a bust and medallion of the Empress Eugenie a thing which I should not exactly have expected in a born king's palace; but beauty is sacred, and kings can not call it parvenu. Then we went into the queen's bed-room, finished in green, and then through the rooms of Queen Louisa.
Hale's bed-room to shake her head, and murmur to herself in a manner which Margaret did not choose to hear. For, the one thing clear and straight before her, was the necessity for leaving Helstone. Mr. Hale's successor in the living was appointed; and, at any rate, after her father's decision; there must be no lingering now, for his sake, as well as from every other consideration.
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