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From the monkey-house and its perpetual infinitely varied pantomime they were conducted into a secret silent chamber, where an interesting event had recently occurred, and Mrs. Monkey, who was very aristocratic and exclusive, received only a few privileged guests.
Then you must visit the Tower, where people's heads were cut off it's very solemn indeed at the Tower; and, of course, you will pay a visit to the Zoo, and you can see the lions fed, and you can look at the monkey-house."
Hence also that peculiar interest which the pranks of our mischievous relatives excite even in spectators not apt to appreciate the comic features of the spectacle. In the monkey-house of the Philadelphia Zoo I have seen saturnine burghers stand motionless for hours together, and contemplative children rapt in reveries that had little to do with the hope of witnessing a beast-fight.
"Go and romp with the juniors." "I'd as soon spend an hour in a monkey-house." "Then I can't do anything for you, I'm afraid. You'll just have to mope." "Where's Sadie?" asked Peggy Collins. "She promised to give me back my crochet-needle, and I can't get on without it." "She went off with Diana and Wendy half an hour ago. I saw them running upstairs together.
Such were the hopeful materials which Railsford was expected to inspire with a noble zeal in the pursuit of classics, history, and divinity. It would have bets as easy at least, so it seemed to the master to instruct he monkey-house at the Zoological Gardens. But he had little to say to them.
The result was a very strange and horrid illusion, for it seemed as if no one was speaking at all, but that the noise came from outside, and that each one of the faces low, vicious faces, mostly was silently grimacing and gibbering, snapping its jaws and glaring furiously at the occupants of the opposite cage. It was a frightful spectacle. I could think of nothing but the monkey-house at the Zoo.
Turning up the gardens again, we come upon a monkey-house, an aviary, and what interested me more than all an enclosed lawn in which were numerous specimens of the kangaroo tribe, from the "Old Boomer" standing six feet high, down to the Rock kangaroo not much bigger than a hare.
Then Charlie tumbled down in the monkey-house. Such a beautiful dinner in a lovely room! He says he will take us to the circus." "I'll ask him to take you too, auntie!" cried Charlie. "Oh yes!" echoed Cecil. "You'll take her, Lord de Burgh, won't you? I don't think auntie ever saw a circus."
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