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Here you find chiefly household articles, bedding, upholstery, crockery, and so forth." "What will you buy, Messieurs?" continued to be the cry, as we moved along arm-in-arm, elbowing our way through the crowd, and exploring this singular scene in all directions. "What will you buy, messieurs?" shouts one salesman. "A carpet? A capital carpet, neither too large nor too small.
The "constabeel" obeyed, not very cheerfully. King stood to watch him with a foot on the step of a first-class coach. Another constable passed him, elbowing a snail's progress between the train and the crowd. He seized the man's arm. "Go and help that man!" he ordered. "Hurry!" Then he climbed into the carriage and leaned from the window.
Prefects were arriving by the main entrance to the ministry, the vast antechambers on the left; and friends, more intimate suitors, waited on the right, elbowing the ushers, in order to have their cards handed to the secretary-general or to the minister. There were some who, in an airy sort of way, said: "Monsieur Vaudrey," in order to appear to be on familiar terms.
Somerville demanding a seat in Parliament, or Miss Herschel elbowing her way to the hustings! Whose domestic record is more lovely in its pure womanliness than Hannah More's, or Miss Mitford's, or Mrs. Browning's? who wears deathless laurels more modestly than Rosa Bonheur?
Passing down a passage and elbowing our way through the throng of idlers, we made for the solicitor's box, where we had barely taken our seats when the case was called.
Patsy hurried forward, elbowing her way vigorously, and the beauty of her dress even more than the dark intensity of her face, caused the throng to make way. She saw the man clearly now, and already the crowd was beginning to seek for missiles. "Kennedy McClure," she said, taking hold of the man's arm, "come your ways out o' this and as fast as may be "
But by dint of pushing and elbowing, he soon got near enough to make out what was written on the long sheets of paper that occupied the centre of the board, and then how shall be described the bound of wild delight his heart gave, when he read: "The City Scholarship CUTHBERT LLOYD."
As they passed into the Park at Albert Gate, two of his young companions nodded and took off their hats, elbowing each other, as who should say, "I suppose that's a case!" How proud Dick felt, and how happy!
A headless hat is surely the most soulless thing in the world, far worse even than a skull.... At last, in a leisurely muddled manner we got to the Address; and I found myself packed in a dense elbowing crowd to the right of the Speaker's chair; while the attenuated Opposition, nearly leaderless after the massacre, tilted its brim to its nose and sprawled at its ease amidst its empty benches.
Was it you?" the boy blurted out, elbowing the others aside and approaching Ben eagerly. The bystanders looked curiously at the stranger and at the excited boy. "I want to have a little talk with you, Pete," said Ben. The dwarf's staring eyes had filled. "Is she here? Has she come down again?" he cried, unmindful of the gaping listeners. "Be quiet," returned Ben. Then he turned to the grocer.
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