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What more would you have? In truth, you are very exacting!" "I am very unhappy!" The young girl turned away and rested her elbow on the table, supporting her chin in her hand. She stared absently at the old bookcases as though she were trying to read the titles upon the dingy bindings. Montevarchi understood her words to convey a submission and changed his tone once more.
Then he sat in his study an amazing chamber, lined with books to the lofty ceiling and dark in tone by reason of the prevalent rich but sombre bindings of five thousand volumes. Jenny told him that she had seen Robert Redmayne, whereupon her uncle considered for five minutes, then declared himself both puzzled and alarmed.
James, the assistant, is always at work cataloguing, when he is not tying up parcels; sometimes even with gum and paste repairing the slighter ravages of time foxed bindings and close-cut margins no man can repair. In the latter, which is Mr.
We see ancient Icelandic manuscripts, from de la Gardie's refined French saloon, and Thauberg's Japanese manuscripts. By merely looking at these books, their bindings and names, one at last becomes, as it were, quite worm-eaten in spirit, and longs to be out in the free air and we are there; by Upsala's ancient hills.
There were books of every kind; fiction, poetry, history, travel, science; and whole sets of books in handsome bindings that Migwan fairly revelled in whenever she came to visit. Hinpoha herself was not fond of reading anything but fiction, and although she had the freedom of all the cases she never looked at anything but "story books."
And he held up a couple of priceless books, of which the Spanish sheepskin bindings showed traces here and there of moisture. 'It is no use, I know, expecting you to preserve a moral sense when you get among books, said Robert with a shrug. 'I will reserve my remarks on that subject.
A few, which were on glass vases, or porcelain, or metal ornaments, could be removed easily by soaking with a damp cloth; but most of them were on plaster casts, or polished wood, or fine book bindings and required the greatest care in handling. When bed-time came the task was not half finished, and Marjorie's shoulders were aching from close application to the work.
A home-made carpet, thick, closely woven, and rich in colors covered the floor. Around the walls were cases containing books, mostly in rich bindings and nearly all English classics. American work was scarcely represented at all. The books read most often by Colonel Kenton were the novels of Walter Scott, whom he preferred greatly to Dickens. Scott always wrote about gentlemen.
"Yes," I said, "the binding will trim up my table just as well without the insides." I thought he looked at me a little suspiciously, but he was evidently satisfied by my expression of countenance, for he answered promptly: "Oh, but you want the insides. That's what the books are for. The bindings are never sold alone."
This excellent garment was composed of a thick coarse homespun woollen, bottle-green in color, with a fringe and bindings of dingy red, to match the sash about his waist.
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