United States or Estonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This lamp poured its light through a lampshade having the semblance of a bursting crimson peony as some morning in June the flower with the weight of its own splendor falls face downward on the grass. And in that room this soft lamp-light fell here and there on crimson winter draperies. He had been living alone as a bachelor before he married her.
"Look up there." "Where?" "On the wall." "At what?" There were several paintings hanging there. "The face, of course." "I can't see it very well." Shadows were upon it, and the lampshade was on. "Then I'll take this off"; and Doctor Eaton removed the shade, letting the light up to the wall. "A young girl's face," I said. The doctor was looking at me, and not at the painting there.
The body is too languid with the soft warmth, and the fatigues of the day, and the familiar voices. The act of digestion plunges it in ecstasy, and faces, shadows, the lampshade, the tongues of flame dancing with a shower of stars in the fireplace all take on a magical appearance of delight. Jean-Christophe lays his cheek on his plate, the better to enjoy all this happiness....
And the air, Merle the air received them, and vibrated for a second and that was all. And even so our prayers go up, to this very day. We press our warm lips to a cold stone, and think to leave an impression. Skaal!" But Merle did not touch her glass; she sat still, with her eyes on the yellow lampshade.
Alyosha, taking hold of the tip of his left toe with his right hand and falling into the most unnatural attitude, turned over, jumped up, and peeped at Belyaev from behind the big fluffy lampshade. "What shall I say?" he said, shrugging his shoulders. "In reality mother's never well. You see, she is a woman, and women, Nikolay Ilyitch, have always something the matter with them."
Over it was suspended what looked like a lampshade, but on inspection it proved to contain no lamp, but to communicate, by a sort of funnel, with the ceiling above. At this contrivance Durham stared long and curiously, but without coming to any conclusion respecting its purpose. He might have investigated further, but he became aware of a dull and regular sound in the room behind him.
In the harsh vanity of her conscious capableness and young strength she thought thus, half forgetting her own follies, and half excusing them on the ground of inexperience. Sophia wanted to go round the flat and destroy every crimson lampshade in it. She wanted to shake Madame Foucault into self- respect and sagacity. Moral reprehension, though present in her mind, was only faint.
The impostor's face, barely distinguishable in the up-thrown penumbra of the lampshade, wore a beard a rather thick, dark beard of negligent abundance, after a mode popular among Frenchmen above which his features were an indefinite blur.
If Elsie had visited the house and purloined the fan, she would be very likely to get rid of it as quickly as possible, and I determined to keep watch. I drew the blinds, got into my dressing-gown and, reinforcing the lampshade with a newspaper to deaden the light, proceeded to read. It was on toward one o'clock and I was dozing when a sound roused me.
"The youth of my young 'confrere' astonishes you. It is his fault. Why the devil did he have his long hair and his light curled beard cut?" If Madame Dammauville had not released the lampshade, she would have seen Saniel turned pale and his lips quiver. "Mais voila!" continued Balzajette. "He made this sacrifice to his new functions; the student has disappeared before the professor."
Word Of The Day