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The child's eyes dwelt on them happily. They were her very own, Pollux and Castor and she was going driving driving in the sun. She hummed a little tune, standing looking down at them. Behind her stretched the great room high-ceiled and wide, and furnished for a princess a child princess.
Carlisle found herself, beyond the door, in a quaint high-ceiled court, enfolded with peristyles in two long rows, and paved with discolored tiles loose under the foot. At the farther end of the court there ran away a broad corridor into the dusk, and here also, full fifty feet distant, rose the grand stairway with ornate sweeping balustrade ending in a tall carved newel-post.
Alone in the cool, high-ceiled, white-walled dining room, Judge Priest ate his breakfast mechanically.
The boy who alone represented the firm said that I might have to wait some minutes, and turned me loose to browse in the big, high-ceiled outer room or library of the place where I am to work. After the dim corridors it was a blaze of light.
A few minutes later the carriage stopped before the steps of the Hotel Shepheard, which has a sort of veranda provided with chairs and sofas for the convenience of travellers who desire to enjoy the cool air. We were received cordially, and given a fine room, very high-ceiled, with two beds provided with mosquito-nets, and a window looking out upon the Ezbekîyeh Square.
There is always the same open-doored, high-ceiled house, with matting on the floors; the same come and go of dark-skinned servants, and the same assembly of men talking horse or business, in raiment that would fatally scandalise a London committee, among files of newspapers from a fortnight to five weeks old.
Inside the house the taste of the mistress had prevailed. At the door of a great, high-ceiled room the butler paused, holding back the soft drapery with austere hand. "What name for madame?" he said. The clear eyes of Achilles met his. "My name is Achilles Alexandrakis," he said, quietly. The eyes of the butler fell. He was struggling with this unexpected morsel in the recesses of his being.
With two or three old friends I went into the Tolbooth to see the play for play it was, I must confess, in town Inneraora, when justice was due to a man whose name by ill-luck was not Campbell, or whose bonnet-badge was not the myrtle stem. The Tolbooth hall was, and is to this day, a spacious high-ceiled room, well lighted from the bay-side.
I passed them on the road.... There'll be thick ice, Will, if this weather lasts." Later, when good-night had been said and he was alone in his bare, high-ceiled room, he looked, not at his law books nor at the poet's words, left lying on the table, but he drew a chair before the fireplace, and from its depths he raised his eyes to his grandfather's sword slung above the mantel-shelf.
Brice thought of the dark and stately high-ceiled dining-room she had known throughout her married days: of the board from which a royal governor of Massachusetts Colony had eaten, and some governors of the Commonwealth since. Thank God, she had not to sell that, nor the Brice silver which had stood on the high sideboard with the wolves and the shield upon it. The widow's eyes filled with tears.
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