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Updated: June 7, 2025
The colonel heard nothing of this odd bit of dialogue; but when he had subsided, with his usual grunt, into his arm-chair beside the fire- place, and Edith had brought him his foot-stool and his pipe, and pat the velvet skull cap on his bald pate, he drew a long whiff of tobacco smoke, and said: "If you young folks want to set up housekeeping a month from to-day, you can do it, for all I care."
She locked the door, stood for a moment looking at me very earnestly, then folded me in her arms and kissed me many times; then she made me sit in a large arm-chair, and drawing up a low foot-stool, sat down at my feet, rested both arms on my lap, and began to speak. I shall try to tell in her own words what she said. "Sally, I want to tell you in the beginning how I thank you for your silence.
The cloaked figure of a man was at the corner of the street. It was he. To her senses the house was a house on fire, and crying to her to escape. Yet she stepped deliberately, to be sure-footed in a dusky room; she touched along the wall and came to the door, where a foot-stool nearly tripped her.
At ten minutes past eight, the Spaniard, having on large pantaloons of red flannel, a thick cloak also of flannel, and a large felt, after the fashion of straw hats, went into the oven, where he remained, seated on a foot-stool, during fourteen minutes, exposed to a heat of from 45 to 50 degrees, of a metallic thermometer, the gradation of which did not go higher than 50.
Can you come in and let me talk to you, mother, for a little while?" "Surely, daughter," said the abbess, gently as with her own hand she opened the door and led her votaress into the room. Salome offered the one chair to the lady-superior, and then took the foot-stool at her feet, and laid her head upon her knees. "Now speak to me freely, child.
The agent had promised me to have the obnoxious notice-board removed, but I apprehended that as soon as the letter announcing his intention reached her she would remove it herself, and when I passed by in the morning there she was on a chair and a foot-stool pounding lustily at it with a hammer. When it fell she gave it such a vicious little kick.
But oh, how avidly his soul drank in the modulations of that longed-for voice a voice that was honey and gold and velvet and all that is most sweet and rich and soft in the world. "Peggy," said he, plunging at the heart of things, "where's that will?" Miss Hugonin kicked forward a little foot-stool to the other side of the fire, and sat down and complacently smoothed out her skirts.
Having placed a smaller foot-stool beside the large one in which she was seated, he got up on it so that he could put both arms about her neck. Pressing his own soft cheek against hers, he asked brokenly: "Are you very unhappy, Granny?" "No," she answered placidly, "not when you are willing to give me a kiss." "All right," he said without enthusiasm as he complied with her request.
Every lounge and chair had a low, broad foot-stool before it, ruffled with the chintz; and in one corner of the room were a square pink and white and green Moorish rug, with ten or a dozen chintz-covered pillows, piled up in a sort of chair-shaped bed upon it, and a fantastic ebony box standing near, the lid thrown back, and battledoors and shuttlecocks, and many other gay-colored games, tossed in confusion.
The murmurs had just died into a thrilling hush, when a woman, who had followed the monks unperceived and unheeded, passed with a swift and noiseless step to the Duke's foot-stool; and, without bending knee to the ground, said, in a voice which, though low, was heard by all: "Norman, in the name of the women of England, I tell thee that thou darest not do this wrong to the hero who died in defence of their hearths and their children!"
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