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He's safe and all right. Give him his head. You don't want Spinney, do you?" "But that was devilish insulting," growled Pownal. "Tipping backward a little, trying to stand straight, that's all. Blast it, a Governor can't run the State. What are you afraid of? You've got a lobby and a legislature, haven't you?" If Waymouth noticed this sotto voce conference he gave no sign.
"But we have stolen a chart," announced Jarvo with great simplicity, "not knowing what thing might befall." St. George wrenched at the handle of the cab door. He had a glimpse of Amory within, just ringing the elevator bell, and he bundled the two little men into the lobby and dashed up to him. "Come on, old Amory," he told him exultingly. "Heaven on earth, put out that pipe and pack.
She had, on her return from Sedhurst on that Sunday, reached Bowstead, and entered by the lobby door just as Lady Belamour was coming down the stairs only attended by her woman, and ready to get into the carriage which waited at the hall door. Sinking on her knees before her with clasped hands, Aurelia exclaimed, "O madam, I ought not to have come away.
Fenced in, thus, he felt himself hoisted to the top of a low flight of steps, and then for a moment he caught a glimpse of the fighting in the crowd, and of a few red coats sprinkled together, here and there, struggling to rejoin their fellows. Next moment, everything was dark and gloomy, and he was standing in the prison lobby; the centre of a group of men.
The door was locked and he could not retreat. Evan Blount's first impulse when he found his retreat cut off by the locked door of the musicians' gallery was to make his presence known instantly to the two men standing before the fire in the lobby below.
The landlord, entering his own parlour, walked to the large fire which it was absolutely necessary to keep up for his comfort, no such blaze burning in the coffee-room or elsewhere, and after giving it a stir returned to a table in the lobby, whereon lay the visitors' book now closed and pushed back against the wall.
Thither I was never permitted to penetrate, on account of my appearance, which was not at all fashionable; but was obliged to stand blowing my fingers in a cold lobby, and take the first opportunity of Mr. Cringer's going to the door to speak with him. One day, while I enjoyed this occasion a person was introduced, whom Mr.
"But aside from that, you must know that the Republican party leaders in this State are the heads of the lobby of the Northeastern Railroads." "I guess I know about Number Seven as well as you do," old Tom interjected. Austen's eye flashed. "Now hold on, father," said young Tom, "that's no way to talk to Austen."
Howe's suggestion was contemptuously rejected; and the Committee proceeded to take into consideration the state of the currency. Meanwhile the newly liberated presses of the capital never rested a moment. Innumerable pamphlets and broadsides about the coin lay on the counters of the booksellers, and were thrust into the hands of members of Parliament in the lobby.
Whereupon Wharton seized upon him, carried him into the Library, and talked to him, till Bennett, who, in spite of his extraordinary shrewdness and judgment in certain departments, was a babe in matters of company finance, wore a somewhat cheered countenance. They came out into the lobby together, Wharton holding his head very high.
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