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He obtained the figures from statistics pencilled on three thin leaves of beech-wood riveted together. In a chair by the stove lounged a bulkier figure, which Thorpe concluded to be that of the "old man." "I was sent here by Shearer," said Thorpe directly; "he said you might give me some work." So long a silence fell that the applicant began to wonder if his question had been heard.
He seemed to relish that mode of locomotion, for he allowed himself to be pulled all the way to the hall-door, and into the glow of the great beech-wood fire; a ruddy light which shone upon many a sporting trophy, and reflected itself on many a gleaming pike and cuirass, belonging to days of old, when gentlemanly sport for the most part meant man-hunting.
He feels as if every line of the work came from his own heart, as if he himself had dreamed it so, and it could no more sound otherwise than the rustling of an honest German beech-wood." "Oberon, or the Elf King's Oath," a romantic and fairy opera in three acts, words by J.R. Planché, was first produced at Covent Garden, London, April 12, 1826, in English.
At least, we all fancied so. Meanwhile, John kept his boys as still as mice, in the broad window-seat, looking across the white snowy sheet, with black bushes peering out here and there, to the feathery beech-wood, over the tops of which the new moon was going down. Such a little young moon! and how peacefully nay, smilingly she set among the snows!
Don't ask any questions; it is ten to one you'll find the gate open; walk straight through, and don't forget to go through the beech-wood at the back of the house; the river runs right round the hill. I want to know what you think of the view. But pray don't ask to see the house; there's nothing to see; the housemaids would be sure to talk, and describe you to my sisters.
She began to throw off her listlessness, and go about with me everywhere. It was the season she enjoyed most the time of the singing of birds, and the springing of delicate-scented flowers. I myself never loved the beech-wood better than did our Muriel. She used continually to tell us this was the happiest spring she had ever had in her life. John was much occupied now.
I told him so, and laid it all to the blame of the Anonymous Friend: who held him in such fascinated thrall that he only looked up once all the morning, which was when Mr. and Miss March went by. In the afternoon he submitted, lamb-like, to be led down to the beech-wood that the wonderful talking stream might hold forth to him as it did to me. But it could not ah, no! it could not.
The fact that beech-leaves are very slow to rot makes them useful in the garden for mulching and protecting plants from frost. Mr. Loudon tells us that the word "book" comes from the German word buch, which, in the first instance, means a beech, and was applied to books because the old German bookbinders used beech-wood instead of paste-board for the sides of thick volumes.
He had never been in a real beech-wood before. One could wander about here as in a church. There were lots of other people here as well; all Copenhagen was on its legs in this fine weather. The people were as though intoxicated by the sunshine; they were quite boisterous, and the sound of their voices lingered about the tree-tops and only challenged them to give vent to their feelings.
I watched the marriage-party leave the house. A simple procession the mother first, leaning on Edwin; then Maud, Walter, and Lord Ravenel; John walked last, with Louise upon his arm. Thus I saw them move up the garden, and through the beech-wood, to the little church on the hill. I then wrote the letter and sent it off. That done, I went back into the study.
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