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Updated: June 22, 2025
A fire burnt cheerily in a bronze grate and T. X. had a glimpse of a big oil painting of Kara above the marble mantle-piece. "Mr. Kara is very busy, sir," said the man. "Just take in my card," said T. X. "I think he may care to see me."
Charles was touched, I could see. A very little kindness was too much for him. "It is no good, Marston," he said, in quite a different voice "I am not believed in this house." He turned away and leaned against the mantle-piece, looking into the fire. Ralph cleared his throat once or twice, and then suddenly went up to him, and laid his hand affectionately on his shoulder.
The corners of the ceiling were festooned with cob-webs; the mantle-piece had accumulated a curious medley of things, while there was no end to the rubbish that had collected under the grate.
"I looked sharply up 'What big tall man, Nanny? I asked, and my heart beat violently as I waited for an answer. "'Oh, sure, said she, rising up, 'ye were too weak to tell ye of it, but wait a bit, an' I'll show ye now. "She went over to the old mantle-piece and pulled from behind a curious looking box, a small envelope.
The little vase upon the mantle-piece swelled into a splendid atlas of eastern geography, an inexhaustible folio, describing Indian customs, the Asiatic splendour of costume, the gorgeous thrones of the descendants of the Prophet, the history of the Prophet himself, the superior instinct and stupendous body of the elephant; all that Edward Forster had collected of nature or of art, through these extensive regions, were successively displayed, until they returned to China, from whence they had commenced their travels.
Morgan, after performing his duties on the first floor, had a pleasure in making the old lady fetch him his boot-jack and his slippers. She was his slave. The little black profiles of her son and daughter; the very picture of Tiddlecot church, where she was married, and her poor dear Brixham lived and died, was now Morgan's property, as it hung there over the mantle-piece of his back-parlor.
Carola moved about in the shadow, lighting the candles on the mantle-piece and the tall lamp beside the piano. "Now," she said, "let us talk a little." He hesitated a moment, and answered: "I would rather hear you play." "You are as decided and dictatorial as ever," she laughed; "but this time you shall have your way. What will you have a bit of Chopin or Grieg?
The magistrate, finding that, where he was seated, he could not very well observe Crochard, had quietly gotten up, and was now standing near the mantle-piece, against which he rested. "On the contrary," he said severely, "you understand but too well Lieut. Champcey says you are the man who tried to drown him in the Dong-Nai. He recognizes you." "That's impossible!" exclaimed the accused.
To the mantle-piece were pinned four little stockings, each waiting open-mouthed for a gift from Santa Claus. Below them crouched a woman, weeping bitterly. The woman was Clara Hague; and she was weeping because the Christmas dawn would find those little mouths unsatisfied. Our "Air" is getting mournful, too mournful for this hour of great joy.
"I am afraid," said Archie, "that some one will get the start of us. Let's get up." "No; lie still and go to sleep," said Frank. "I am afraid we shall oversleep ourselves. I wonder what time it is." "I'll soon find out," said Frank. And, bounding out on to the floor, he lighted a match, and held it up before the little clock that stood on the mantle-piece. "It's twelve o'clock," he continued.
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