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Updated: October 21, 2025
"It is not about doctrine I wished to speak to you, Rabbi, although I am troubled thus also, but about . . . you remember our talk." "About the maid, surely; I cannot forget her, and indeed often think of her since the day you brought me to her house and made me known unto her, which was much courtesy to one who is fitter for a book-room than a woman's company.
The beef and pudding were ponderous, but with due efforts they were overcome and disappeared. The glass of port was sipped, the almonds and raisins were nibbled, and then the ladies left the room. Ten minutes after that Elizabeth found herself seated with Isabella Holmes over the fire in her father's little book-room.
George adopted toward his mother's favourite a frigid courtesy, at which the honest gentleman chafed but did not care to remonstrate; or a stinging sarcasm which he would break through as he would burst through so many brambles on those hunting excursions in which he and Harry Warrington rode so constantly together; while George, retreating to his tents, read mathematics and French and Latin, or sulked in his book-room.
Well, we can leave the book-room and go to other parts of the Museum.
Robarts, hurrying into her husband's book-room about the middle of the day, "Lord Lufton is at home. Have you heard it?" "What! here at Framley?" "He is over at Framley Court; so the servants say. Carson saw him in the paddock with some of the horses. Won't you go and see him?" "Of course I will," said Mark, shutting up his papers.
He seemed to be somewhat in dread, to be cowed, and ill at ease; he tried, however, to assume his usual manner, and followed his father into the book-room with an affected air of indifference, which very ill concealed his real feelings. "Kilcullen," began the earl, "I was very sorry to see Tierney with you last night.
At the moment she said nothing, pressing down her grief in her deep heart; but that evening, in the book-room, she found Arthur alone; and then she began. "You were not in earnest just now about Adela, were you, Arthur?" "Indeed I was, mother; quite in earnest." "She has been very much away from Littlebath since her aunt came back from Italy to make a home for her.
I then decided, instead of going to my own, to return to the library and continue my examination of the manuscripts. In spite of the protests of Monsieur Paul, I entered what I may call, in old-fashioned phrase, "the book-room," and started to work by the light of a lamp.
That meant he would certainly have another opportunity to browse in that fascinating old book-room, and perhaps become so well acquainted with the Manor family that he could share his puzzle with somebody who would be equally interested in finding out what it meant.
And on this point the son bargained that, as it would be essentially necessary that his spirits should be light and easy, he was not, during the operation, to be subjected to any of his father's book-room conversations: for this he stipulated as an absolute sine quâ non in the negotiation, and the clause was at last agreed to, though not without much difficulty.
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