Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 23, 2025
As at the Johnson house, the broad stone step was sometimes flush with the sidewalk pavement. The second type of stoop consists of a broad stone step or platform before the door with a straight flight of stone steps leading up to it. Cliveden, Mount Pleasant and Doctor Denton's house are notable instances of such stoops without handrails of any sort.
Helbeck detected the glance, and saw too that Mrs. Denton's pink face was flushed, and her manner discomposed. "The coffee's noa good," she said abruptly, as she put it down; "I couldn't keep to 't." "No, I'm afraid we disturbed Mrs. Denton dreadfully," said Miss Fountain, shrugging her shoulders. "We got her to bring up all sorts of things for Augustina.
Their work was to come quiet and swift and sure; but not yet. Only one face Laura saw as she led the way to the moment's safety Tim Denton's; and it was as stricken as her own. She passed, then turned and looked at him again. He understood; she wanted him. He waited till she sprang into her wagon, after the Healer had mounted his mule and ridden away with ever-quickening pace into the prairie.
Denton had long ago given up the practice of jotting down her thoughts, experience having taught her that so often, when one comes to use them, one finds that one has changed them. But in the case of Joan the recollection of these twin "oddments" might have saved her disappointment. Joan knew of a new road that avoided Mrs. Denton's pitfalls. She grew impatient of being perpetually pulled back.
Augustina sighed and fidgeted. But when she was half-way through her meal, Laura standing over her, she suddenly laid a shaking hand on Laura's arm. "Laura! Alan's a saint! he always was long ago when I was so blind and wicked. But now oh! the things Mrs. Denton's been telling me!" "Has she?" said Laura coolly.
Denton's was to mind a complicated hydraulic press that seemed almost an intelligent thing. This press worked by the sea-water that was destined finally to flush the city drains for the world had long since abandoned the folly of pouring drinkable water into its sewers.
Denton!" she cried in a sharp whisper. "Please go before you say what is in your heart, for your words can only add cruel mockery to dishonor!" A week passed before Faith went to the store again. She was too utterly miserable to think of resuming her duties. Mr. Watkins called on her every night to bring her news of the store, and by this means she kept track of all Mr. Denton's changes.
It is no part of my plan to repeat the whole conversation which ensued between the two. I must content myself with stating that it largely referred to common acquaintances, e.g., to the nephew of Mr. Denton's friend who had recently married and settled in Chelsea, to the sister-in-law of Mr. Denton's friend who had been seriously indisposed, but was now better, and to a piece of china which Mr.
Something of signal import to her was about to fall from Elfreda's lips. "I was just thinking of the story of Ruth Denton's father and old Jean, the hunter, who used to live in Upton Wood. Don't you remember, you told me about how he was hurt and Mr. Denton nursed him back to health! You told me, too, that this same Jean had hunted all over the United States and Canada. There's a woodsman for you!
Before he left the building the letter had been posted to his mother through the pneumatic mailing tube that opened in Mr. Denton's office. Mr. Denton's next duty was to see his buyers. He was still smarting with indignation over that "sweatshop" horror. In less than an hour he had them all assembled in the receiving-room, which was piled from end to end with the products of underpaid labor.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking