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"I am on the road, but did not affairs of vital importance occupy me at the moment I might be capable of ancient excess!" "It is as well for the head of the Ardayre family that you are occupied then!" and Denzil smiled, and then he said, his thoughts drifting back to what interested him most: "You think Europe will be blazing soon, Stepan?
"Psha! she may be gone from here," he said and went in through the gate. The window of the parlour which she used to occupy was open, and there were no inmates in the room. The Major thought he recognized the piano, though, with the picture over it, as it used to be in former days, and his perturbations were renewed. Mr.
M. Tavernier received the newcomer with a sickly smile, which disappeared as soon as M. Batifol left the room. "Go and take your place in that empty seat there, in the third row," said M. Tavernier, in an indifferent tone. He deigned, however, to conduct Amedee to the seat which he was to occupy.
The general feeling among the intimates of the deceased was expressed by Davit when he said: "It may do the crittur nae guid i' the tail o' the day, but he paid for's bit o' ground, an' he's in's richt to occupy it." The custom was to push the coffin on to the wall up a plank, and then let it drop less carefully into the cemetery.
Colonel Tiffton knew that nearly everything had been purchased by him, and felt glad that a stranger rather than a neighbor was to occupy what had been so dear to him, and that his servants would not be separated. With Ellen it was different.
"But Nancy is going to marry considerable money in addition to what she's inherited." Nancy finding it impossible to spend an hour of her time idly and with no appointments before noon that day, was engaged in darning a basket full of slum socks that she had brought home from the tenements to occupy Hitty's leisure moments.
Another little white bed had been put up, and as the room was large, the girls were in no way crowded. Kitty admired the beautiful room, but in her quiet way, by no means making such demonstrations of delight as Marjorie had when she first saw it. Also Kitty felt a sort of possession, as she would return later and occupy the room for the whole summer.
The farmers and their works are scarcely more obvious than woodchucks and their burrows. Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture, even politics, the most alarming of them all, I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape. Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway yonder leads to it.
I have not had an opportunity of making any experiments relative to these curious facts; but whether the general effect is an illusion, or the result of known or of new principles, the subject merits a careful investigation. To the next portion, Chemistry has supplied fewer wonders than we expected: they occupy but fifty pages.
At all events, let me try. It will not cost much, either in time or trouble." "How do you mean to do it, brother?" "Sit close, all of you. Give me room you shall see presently." As directed by Basil, they all cowered closely down, so as to occupy as little space as possible.
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