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I was curious to examine it, interposed Cecilia; 'and I am as much at a loss as you to understand what could have attracted him. One sentence... 'About the sheikh in the stables, where he accused the pretended physician? Yes, what was there in that? 'Where is the book? said Mrs. Grancey. 'Not here, I think. Cecilia glanced at the drawing-room book-table, and then at Mr.
Between the windows stood a small philosophical bookcase, the volumes of it full of small reference slips, and marked from end to end; and on the other side of the room was a revolving book-table crowded with miscellaneous volumes of poets, critics, and novelists mainly, however, with the first two. Aldous Raeburn read few novels, and those with a certain impatience.
In dress Colonel Bancker presented no variation from the other colonels of the volunteer service wearing the full blue uniform, shoulder-straps and belts, with the number of his regiment wrought in gold on the front of a broad brimmed hat lying on a book-table near him.
Two low, wide settees, well furnished with cushions and upholstered in dark yellowish-red tapestry, fitted into the corners on either side the double doors. A couple of large armchairs and a revolving book-table occupied the centre of the room.
These Chinese have ideas that are sometimes worth thinking over. FRIDAY, December 13. Our intended trip up the Yang-tse has been interfered with by a storm of rain and dense fog, but the days never seem long. We get a little time to read up. Our book-table shows seven important works on China and its people all interesting.
Among the tales are some and those, perhaps, the most interesting which Mr. Dasent justly characterizes as "intensely heathen," and yet in which the Saviour of the world or his apostles appear as interlocutors or actors, which alone unfits the volume for the book-table of the household room.
"I retired to a book-table at the other end of the parlor, and it was a good deal later when the two young ladies had finished talking about the Wilmer reception. "'I do not understand it at all, said Miss Castle, when we were on the sidewalk. 'You are not deaf, Mr.
"I had an opportunity to make a valuable addition to my collection of the works of ancient Friends. On the book-table, I found that rare old volume, 'The Way Cast Up, written by George Keith, while in unity with the Society.
"Fergus and I always spent the day alone together, and I keep up the custom still," returned Mrs. Broderick, in a dreamy voice. "He never gave me his present until the evening, and it was always such a grand surprise. His last present to me was that revolving book-table. How splendid I thought it, and what a comfort it has been to me all these years.
Dinner was suited to the apartment, apartment to the dinner. The book-table had been hastily cleared for a cloth, not over white, and, in consequence, the sole remaining table, which acted as sideboard, displayed a relay of plates and knives and forks, in the midst of octavos and duodecimos, bound and unbound, piled up and thrown about in great variety of shapes.
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