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And then, declining his offer of escort, and saying that she would come and see him again on the morrow, she departed on her homeward path. The first thing that met her gaze on the hall-table at the Abbey House was a note addressed to herself in a handwriting that she had seen in many washing bills, but never before on an envelope. She opened it in vague alarm.
The entrance-hall, in which I now found myself, was of a good size and good proportions; potted plants occupied the corners; the paved floor was soiled with muddy footprints and encumbered with straw; on a mahogany hall-table, which was the only furniture, a candle had been stuck and suffered to burn down plainly a long while ago, for the gutterings were green with mould.
Discussions of the latest plays and novels, the doings and undoings of statesmen, laughter and sentiment to him, at breakfast, these things were as important as sausages and thick cream. Loving, as he did, everything connected with a newspaper, he would now pass by those on the hall-table with never so much as a wistful glance, and hurry to his workroom. He wrote sitting down.
While I was hesitating, and wondering what my next proceeding had better be, my eye was attracted by a letter lying on the hall-table. The letter was directed to Nugent; and the post-mark was Liverpool. I drew the inevitable conclusion. The German oculist was in England! He crosses the Rubicon
Every one had given her something; and it was found difficult to pack white mice, cake, a parcel of shells, apples, a rabbit kicking violently in a bag, a large cabbage for his refreshment, a bottle of minnows, and a mammoth bouquet. The farewell scene was moving, for the Princess sat upon the hall-table, surrounded by her subjects.
She was jarred and aching and weary with her journey; but it was a very fair woman whom she saw reflected in the hall-mirror as she unpinned her hat and tossed it upon the hall-table, and passed on to the consulting-room door a woman whose face was strange to herself, with that new fire, and decision, and strength of purpose in it; a woman with glowing roses of colour in her cheeks, and eager, shining eyes.
"I'd better give it to you before I forget." She took up the bundle on the hall-table and came back with it. "What is it?" Mary's voice was indifferent as she broke the wrapping; then as she saw the writing on it she frowned. "It's nothing just my overshoes." She threw them down the steps and under the table from which Sarah Sue had taken them.
'So, Master Dicky-bird, said Dr. May, as they rested him a moment on the hall-table, 'give me that claw of yours. Yes, you'll do very well, only you must go to bed now; and, mind, whatever you did when you were in Fairy-land, we don't fly here in Stoneborough and it does not answer.
Young was absent, Irene found it rather lonely upstairs. She thought of a new volume of travels which she had noticed on the hall-table as they entered, and started down to get it.
"The next day," says Cooper, "I pay Hobson a return visit, and forget the book on his hall-table. Frequently Hobson may be too busy to take notice of the accident. In that case I call him up on the telephone as soon as I leave his house and ask in great agitation whether by any chance I have left a volume of Maeterlinck on his hall-table.
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