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There was nothing in itself singular in that, as he was accustomed to declare that luncheon was a meal too much in the day, and that a man should eat nothing beyond a biscuit between breakfast and dinner. But he would sometimes come in and eat his biscuit standing on the hearth-rug, and drink what he would call half a quarter of a glass of sherry.
Please be not very severe on her, for her grandmother's sake. Words fail me to express how much I loved her grandmother, who wore a cricket-cap and broke Aunt Sally's nose seven times. Why does the Cat suddenly jump off the Hearth-rug, rush to the Door, and make frantic Endeavors to get out? Will my pretty woman ever be all I wish her to be? All she ought to be? I fear not!
The tranquil monotony of that hour made me feel as if I had lived for ever, and should live for ever droning out paragraphs in that warm sunny room, with my two quiet hearers, and the curled-up pussy cat sleeping on the hearth-rug, and the clock on the house-stairs perpetually clicking out the passage of the moments.
When they had finished, Briton had a huge dish of scraps; Veevee sat watching him eat, and the children were very much surprised to see Briton shove one of the biggest and best morsels towards him. The tiny dog picked up the titbit and wagged his tail. After he had eaten it, he went and lay down beside Briton on the hearth-rug. The "something nice" that Uncle had to tell was soon told now.
"Next week is Christmas week," explained Judge Gray. He stood upon the hearth-rug, his back to the open fire, warming his hands preparatory to taking up his pen. His fingers were apt to be a little stiff on these December mornings. "During Christmas week this house is always given over to such holiday doings as I don't imagine another house in town ever knows.
"I say, Austin stop a minute!" his host called after him. Wrayford turned, and the two men faced each other across the hearth-rug. Stilling's eyes shifted uneasily. "There's one thing more you can do for me before you leave. Tell Isabel about that loan; explain to her that she's got to sign a note for it." Wrayford, in his turn, flushed slightly. "You want me to tell her?" "Hang it!
It was Jervaise who brought back the unintelligible disputants to reasonable speech. He stopped speaking, stepped back on to the hearth-rug, and then addressed the loudly vociferous Turnbull. "Ronnie!" Jervaise said in a tone that arrested attention, and having got his man's ear, added, "Half a minute!" "But look here, you know," Turnbull protested, still on the same note of aggressive violence.
Reluctantly enough they hunted up Goliath, who in thorough boredom had returned to his place on the hearth-rug in the big bedroom, gathered together their candles, and found their way to the cellar.
His thick, dirty shoes have left their mark on the ermine hearth-rug. A deep sense of satisfaction is impressed on the Jesuit's cadaverous countenance. Princess de Saint-Dizier, dressed with that sort of modest elegance which becomes a mother of the church, keeps her eyes fixed on Rodin for the latter has completely supplanted Father d'Aigrigny in the good graces of this pious lady.
Lucy melted in a moment, threw herself down upon the hearth-rug upon her knees, and took Lady Randolph's hands in her own and kissed them. "Oh, dear aunt, dear aunt!" she cried, "to think I should have gone on so about little Tom and never remembered that you But we are all your children," she said, in the innocence and fervour of her heart. "Yes, my love."
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