Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 1, 2025
Really, one hundred yards of carpeting and a black cook! Astonishing, Mrs. Kennedy!" The doctor was quite too much confounded to think of a single maxim, for his wife's effrontery took him wholly by surprise. She was a most energetic woman, and her proceedings were already the theme of many a tea-table gossip, in which the delighted villagers exulted that Dr. Kennedy had at last found his match.
Then as his gaze travelled back it rested on something which had certainly not been lying where he now saw it at the time of his entrance. Not six paces behind him, stretched across the dark carpeting, in the very centre of the pillared vista, lay a woman's long glove. A woman's glove possesses a peculiar charm for all men. Perhaps it suggests some of the sweet mystery of womanhood.
Even fair ladies, too, came in their carriages, holding high their aristocratic skirts as they threaded their way through the rooms where piles of carpeting and furniture of various kinds lay awaiting the shrill voice and hammer of the auctioneer, a portly little man, who felt more for the family than his appearance would indicate.
She who was called Kitty was armed, as for social conquest, in some kind of airy evening-dress, and was looking round with bewilderment upon that forlorn waste of carpeting and upholstery. She owned, with a smile, that she had not seen so much of the world yet as she had been promised; but she liked Niagara very much, and perhaps they should find the world at breakfast.
At night her bed was a piece of old carpeting in a dark corner of the cellar, where she cried herself to sleep, and wished she could die. Young as she was, death was not terrible to her, for she regarded it as a release from her sufferings. Had she known how to pray, she would have prayed for it; but, in her ignorance she merely wished to die.
First, close at hand, it was the Seed ranch, carpeting the little hollow behind the Mission with a spread of greens, some dark, some vivid, some pale almost to yellowness. Beyond that was the Mission itself, its venerable campanile, in whose arches hung the Spanish King's bells, already glowing ruddy in the sunset.
"Did you see his eyes when Neale said that Horbury wasn't here? If Horbury doesn't turn up by this next train ah!" "Think he's sloped?" asked Patten, already seething with boyish desire of excitement. "Done a bunk with the money?" But Shirley shook his head at the closed door through which Neale had vanished. "They're carpeting Neale about it, anyhow," he answered.
The stone floors had not even a carpeting of rushes, the pallet beds lay on the hard stone floor, and only the girl possessed a basin and ewer for washing. Cuthbert was supposed to perform his ablutions in the water of the moat without, or at the pump in the yard. But Petronella had small notion of the hardness of her life.
But as I suppose you have not so much with you, and to receive them, I must go with you to the khan where you lodge; with the leave of the master of this shop we will go into the back warehouse, where I will spread the carpeting; and when we have both sat down, and you have formed the wish to be transported into your apartment at the khan, if we are not conveyed thither, it shall be no bargain, and you shall be at your liberty.
Ronador jumped queerly and colored with a sense of guilt. There was yellow oxalis here carpeting the ground among the low, dark cedars, yellow butterflies flitted about among the trees where Johnny was washing the van, and the inevitable buzzard floated with upturned wings above the camp. Ronador had grown to hate the ubiquitous bird of the South.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking