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Updated: June 17, 2025
Each sitting-room contained a table, a sofa, three or four chairs, a small book-shelf, and a praying-stool provided with a hard and well-worn cushion for the knees. Over this a brown wooden crucifix was hung upon the gray wall. In the majority of convents it is not usual, nor even permissible, for ladies in retreat to descend to the nuns' refectory.
There was a little book-shelf, where Puss in Boots, and Goldsmith's History of England, still kept their places, though the Princess had stepped in between them; there was a drawing of the cottage executed under Maurice's teaching; here was a little work-basket, and there a half-written note.
Arnold went straight to the nearest book-shelf, and took down the first volume that his hand lighted on a solid quarto, bound in sober brown. "Well?" asked Blanche. "What have you found?" Arnold opened the volume, and conscientiously read the title exactly as it stood: "Paradise Lost. A Poem. By John Milton." "I have never read Milton," said Blanche. "Have you?" "No."
I've seen her bite a young fellow's head off when he tried to make a grand-stand play with her by quoting her poems which he'd found in his sister's book-shelf." "But, in the name of goodness, what has all this to do with young Crocker?" "Why, it was this way. They sent this Crocker boy to get an interview from her, all about her methods of work and inspirations and what not.
I couldn't think what made you ask such a queer question. Now tell me about Greece, won't you, please? Is it a beautiful country?" "Yes, and I'll tell you a tale of the sea, of olives, and of Athens, all in one. You remember that beautiful head of Minerva, which is near my book-shelf, do you not? Minerva has another name. She is often called Athena.
The kaioké is placed on the raised floor; but if there be no raised floor, it is placed in a closet with the door open, so that it may be conspicuously seen. The books are arranged on a book-shelf or on a cabinet; if there be neither shelf nor cabinet, they are placed on the raised floor.
Betty replaced her book on Olive's book-shelf, and sat quite still and quiet. She knew she was a wet blanket not the life and soul of the meeting, as was generally the case. She knew well that Margaret Grant was watching her with anxiety, that Martha West and also Fanny Crawford were puzzled at her conduct.
Nobody could have been more surprised than I was at what I had done done so neatly, so quietly and gently. The book stood closed, upright, with its back to me, just as on a book-shelf, behind the bars of the grate. There it was. And it gave forth, as the flames crept up the blue cloth sides of it, a pleasant though acrid smell. My astonishment had passed, giving place to an exquisite satisfaction.
"'You should have called me at once, he said in his whispering voice, fixing his great eyes on my face. "I stammered something about an awful dream, but he ignored my remark utterly, and I caught his eye wandering next if any movement of those optics can be described as 'wandering' to the book-shelf. I watched him, unable to move my gaze from his person.
Fearing that I should do her some harm if I endeavoured to rouse her from what seemed to be a trance, I went softly away, and with a strange feeling of exaltation tingling through my veins, took down my roll of charts from my book-shelf, and opening out No. 780 one of the four sheets embracing the North and South Pacific studied it carefully.
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