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There was none; but I now observed a small mahogany shelf, close to the head of the bunk, which had hitherto escaped my notice, and upon it stood a small silver hand-bell, quaint of shape, and elegantly adorned with repousse work.
There is a pattern of amber with gold thread might please you better. Lady Castlemaine has ordered a Court mantua " Lady Fareham rang her hand-bell with a vehemence that suggested anger. "Show Mrs. Lewin to her coach," she said shortly, when her woman appeared. "When you have done that you may go to bed; I want nothing more to-night." "Mrs. Kirkland has been asking to see your ladyship."
Fairlie, I beg that we may be alone." My tone and manner left him no alternative but to comply with my request. He looked at the servant, and pointed peevishly to a chair at his side. "Put down the etchings and go away," he said. "Don't upset me by losing my place. Have you, or have you not, lost my place? Are you sure you have not? And have you put my hand-bell quite within my reach? Yes?
This suggestion of medieval symbolism, aided by a minute turret in which a hand-bell might have hung and found just room enough to turn over, was all of outward show the small edifice could boast. Within there was very little that pretended to be attractive.
A branch of the Gaelic League has been started here since my last visit, and every Sunday afternoon three little girls walk through the village ringing a shrill hand-bell, as a signal that the women's meeting is to be held, here it would be useless to fix an hour, as the hours are not recognized.
In an indirect manner they had, and what follows will account for their presence. A hand-bell stood upon the table. The baron rang it; and before its tingling had ceased, the door opened, and a servant entered the apartment. "Summon my sons to attend me!" The servant bowed, and retired. A few minutes after, two youths entered the apartment.
Lechford, in his "Plaine Dealing," wrote in 1641 that they came together in Boston on the Lord's Day by "the wringing of a bell," and it is thought that that bell was a hand-bell.
On one occasion a fit of this kind continued for an unusual time, the ordinary term of their duration about two days had been long past, and the old servant who generally waited upon Sir Robert after these visitations, having in vain listened for the well-known tinkle of his master's hand-bell, began to feel extremely anxious; he feared that his master might have died from sheer exhaustion, or perhaps put an end to his own existence during his miserable depression.
Warwick here rang the hand-bell on his table, and on the entrance of his attendant gentleman, bade him see that the barge was in readiness; then beckoning to his kinsman, and with a nod to his daughters, he caught up his plumed cap, and passed at once into the garden. "Anne," said Isabel, when the two girls were alone, "thou hast vexed my father, and what marvel?
She sprang up as if shot, and rang a little hand-bell. "Jane, a glass of water for this gentleman ice-water," in a very chilly tone, and she sat down over by the piano. Bashful fool and idiot that I was. I had lost another opportunity. After I had swallowed the water Jane had left the room.
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