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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Come, I'll try the women folk in the drawin'-room, agin'. Ladies don't mind the rain here; they are used to it. It's like the musk plant, arter you put it to your nose once, you can't smell it a second time. Oh what beautiful galls they be! What a shame it is to bar a feller out such a day as this.
He's tae be married at once, a 'm hearin', an' this is tae be the drawin'-room; he wes here ten days syne the day after he wes eleckit: they 're aye in a hurry when they 're engaged an' seleckit a sma' room upstairs for his study; he didna think he wud need as lairge a room for bukes, an' he thocht the auld study wud dae fine for pairties.
Goin' be big dinnuh-potty, an' thishere blue-vein fam'ly tell Fanny they want whole lot extry sploogin'; tell her put fine-lookin' cullud man stan' by drawin'-room do' ask ev'ybody name an' holler out whatever name they say, jes' as they walk in. Thishere fam'ly say they goin' show what's what, 'nis town, an' they boun' Fanny go git 'em a 'nouncer.
He has come down stairs, and is facing the sun, the Lord be praised, in the back drawin'-room." "Go, my lord," said Norton; "perhaps he wishes you to make a third luminary. Go and help him to face the sun." "Be my sowl, Mr. Norton, if I'm not much mistaken, it's the father he'll have to face.
"It was t' yoong doctor from Pengarth yo' ken him " A woman's voice interrupted. "Please, sir, would you stop those dogs barking? They disturb the patient." Melrose looked at the speaker in stupefaction. "What the deuce have you been doing with my house?" he turned furiously to Dixon "who are these people?" "Theer's a yoong man lyin' sick i' the drawin'-room," said Dixon desperately.
"We hain't got no drawin'-room here, an' Eunice ain't seein' no more folks to-day, not if I can help it. I'm sure she won't see no men folks, anyway. We've been overrun with them, a'ready, just 'cause Moses has broke his leg and a few his ribs. Accidents happen to anybody if they're keerless, an' he admits he was. But he's as comfortable as can be expected, thank ye, and good day."
Comyn Menteith put about her bairns; and as to room, the sergeant and the tailor bodie did not need much, and the masons were only busy in the front parlour." "Masons?" asked Ermine. "On, aye? didna ye ken it's for the new room, that is to be built out frae the further parlour, and what they ca' the bay to the drawin'-room, just to mak' the house more conformable like wi' his name and forbears.
Shall we go into the drawin'-room, and see what these boys and girls are doin? But say, ain't life in England interestin'? If any God should say "I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it" who would not lift Heart, eye, and hand in passion o'er the gift?
Maggie had been kind to Tildy once or twice, and had even given the general a cast-off dress of her own. Maggie was plain, and yet people liked her and listened to her words. "Oh miss," said Tildy when she opened the front door, "it's me that's glad to see you! Your ma is upstairs; she's took with a headache, but you'll find her lyin' down on the sofy in the drawin'-room."
The first member of the Fortescue household who met Broussard gave him a rapturous greeting. This was Kettle, who opened the massive doors to visitors. "Hi! Mr. Broussard, I cert'ny is glad to see you, and Miss 'Nita, she is right heah in the drawin'-room, and I spect she jump fer joy when she see you!" shouted Kettle, who was a child of nature and spoke the truth as he saw it.
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