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They went up to the second story, and down a corridor with cells, each of which had on the lintel the name of the patron saint of the respective monk. Each door had a card with the name of the occupant of the room. It looked more like a bath-house than a monastery. The cells were comfortable inside, without any air of sadness; each held a bed, a divan, and a small bookcase.
The curiosity shops knew him no more, or if he still at times brought home some treasure in his hat-box, on his return from Convocation, it was unpacked and examined in private, and a little place was made for it among the old Chelsea figures on the bookcase in his study, which had stood, ever since he had inherited them from his father, on the drawing-room mantle-piece, but had been silently removed when a pair of comic china elephants playing on violins had appeared in their midst.
I know that I found myself leaning against the bookcase for support. "But but " I stammered. "This is very sudden, Agatha." "Yes, Austin, I have come here to tell you that our engagement is at an end." "But surely," I cried, "you will give me some reason! This is unlike you, Agatha. Tell me how I have been unfortunate enough to offend you." "It is all over, Austin." "But why?
Some kind of catch clicked, the flap remained up like a roof, displaying nothing but books rows and rows of them. The flank of his van was nothing but a big bookcase. Shelves stood above shelves, all of them full of books both old and new. As I stood gazing, he pulled out a printed card from somewhere and gave it to me: ROGER MIFFLIN'S TRAVELLING PARNASSUS What librarian can surpass us?
And, wedged between the grim white bust and the dark bookcase, the girl herself was like some unlawful spirit which had slid in there, and stood trembling and vibrating, ready to be shuttered out. Before this apparition Hilary recoiled towards the door, hesitated, and returned. "You should not have come here," he muttered, "after what we said to you yesterday."
Instead of the conventional rack of war-worn bats, a carved oak bookcase, with every shelf in a litter, filled the better part of one wall; and where I looked for cricketing groups, I found reproductions of such works as "Love and Death" and "The Blessed Damozel," in dusty frames and different parallels. The man might have been a minor poet instead of an athlete of the first water.
It must be admitted, however, that distribution by subjects ought in some degree to be controlled by sizes. If everything on a given subject, from folio down to 32mo, is to be brought locally together, there will be an immense waste of space in the attempt to lodge objects of such different sizes in one and the same bookcase.
It was a matter of principle with Julius never to take life; yet instinctively he drew back his hand from the book in disgust. "Araignée du matin, chagrin," he said, involuntarily, while he watched the insect make good its escape over the top of the bookcase. Then he flicked uneasily at the little parcel with his duster, causing a cloud of gray atoms to float up and out into the room.
For a second or two both lads watched him Chippie looking up straight into his face, Tom gazing from the distant line of the bookcase, with his habitual expression of troubled perplexity. Chip managed to speak at last, getting out the words in a fairly natural tone. "Look here, boys; I can't stay to-day. I've got a I've got a pain. Just play by yourselves till Miss Bland comes for you.
He began to lack room for comely storage; already a large bookcase had intruded into his bedroom. If he continued to purchase, he must needs house himself more amply; yet he dreaded the thought of a removal. He knew enough and to spare of life in lodgings. His experience began when he came up as a lad to Guy's Hospital, when all lodgings in London shone with the glorious light of liberty.
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