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The squire was ensconced in the sunniest corner of the sunny old parlor; his feet were stretched out on a hassock; he wore a short circular cape over his shoulders, and a black velvet skull-cap was pushed a little crooked over his high bald forehead. He had aquiline features, an aristocratic mouth, and sunken but somewhat piercing eyes.
Rachael asked, with one swift and eloquent glance for him before she drew a much-fringed hassock to his mother's knee and seated herself there with the confidence of a captivating child. "I always thought he was rather vain! But let's not talk about him, we only make him worse. Tell me about yourself?" Mrs.
Stenson switched on an electric light. "Sit down, Orden," he invited. "There is no need for us to stand glaring at one another. There is enough of real importance in the nature of our interview without making melodrama of it." The Prime Minister threw himself into an easy chair. Julian, with a little sigh of relief, selected a high-backed oak chair and rested his foot upon a hassock.
"Your mother to the rescue, then," replied Harry Evringham, smiling. Jewel turned to look at her mother, and, rising again, picked up her hassock and carried it to the steamer chair in which Mrs. Evringham was reclining. Her mother looked into her serious eyes and nodded reassuringly as she began: "As that sorry old man stood there on the terrace, things had never looked so black to him.
Suddenly his hands stretched out as if to seize her shoulders, his face became tortured he swayed. She caught him. She lowered him to the floor, and put a hassock under his head. Then she rang the bell rang it and rang again. When help came, all was too late. John Grier had gone for ever. As Tarboe stood in the church alone at the funeral, in a pew behind John Grier's family, sadness held him.
It was while Rachel thus stopped in the hall to speak with her mother that Larry was haranguing the crowd at the doors of the refreshment rooms, and when she presently returned to poor Dan, still crouched upon the hassock, her report was as follows: "I saw Tonguey Murfree going in to supper with that handsome Miss Lavillotte and a queer thing, too, for her to notice him, I thought but all of a sudden he left her at the very door and rushed out through the front hall, so I guess he went home.
None of them saw her take a hassock, put it behind the sitting-room door that was seldom opened, and after tying the string to the knob, seat herself upon the hassock and wait for something to happen. She waited. Nobody came near that room. The sun shone warmly in at the windows, the bees buzzed, and Dot grew drowsy. Finally she fell fast asleep with her tooth tied to the doorknob.
and if there is any contrivance of mother earth's which is calculated to sap man's remaining energy, it is this plodding over the Russian moss, avoiding the stagnant pools upon its surface, and stepping and reaching from hassock to hassock, Sometimes as soggy as sawdust, More frequently soft as a sponge.
And yet you said a little while ago that I had not failed in any wifely duty!" "The time and circumstance were their own best excuse. Sure I am far from blaming you, my dear. But let it pass, 'tis enough that I know you love him as he loves you." Again her mood changed in the twinkling of an eye. She sank down upon the hassock, laughing merrily.
I observed a number of slips of paper with Chinese characters upon them; and being told that they were used for divination purposes, I asked how it was done: upon which one of the Chinamen took from before the shrine a thing like a match-holder, full of bits of stick like matches, and kneeling down on a hassock, began to shake this case till one of the bits of stick fell out.
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