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Wilkins! might that not account for Wikkey's odd name? Wilkins, Wilky, Wikkey; it did not seem unlikely. That evening, Reginald, entering his cousin's sitting-room, found Lawrence leaning back in his arm-chair on one side of the fire, and on the other his strange little guest lying propped up on the sofa, which had been drawn up within reach of the glow.
About him there were some few chairs and articles of furniture, and he was propped against a bed. He was being moved literally carted to another house, not home, and he said he could not go without his bed; he had slept on it for seventy-three years.
Having stopped several times to discover by ear and eye if she was being followed from the hotel, and being satisfied that the sight of her dressing-case had in no wise aroused the hall porter's curiosity, she propped her luggage against the base of a palm tree growing casually in the middle of a small street and proceeded to take her bearings.
And as we crossed the grass under the walnut-trees, I saw that the old school-room window was open to the evening air, and lighted from within. I signalled silence to Dennis, and we crept up, as Jem and I had crept years ago to see the pale-faced relation hunting for the miser's will in the tea-caddy. In the old arm-chair sat Charlie, propped with cushions.
Is He not very good, papa? And only think! There is joy among the Holy Angels in Heaven when one sinner grieves and comes back. Johnnie was wont to go on in this dreamy way without expecting an answer; but he was startled to see his father's face hidden by the shadowy fingers that propped his forehead. 'Has it made your head ache, papa? Must I go away? 'Say that again, Johnnie.
You are extraordinary you others," he commented, with his back propped against the wall, and looking himself as incapable of an emotional display as a sack of meal. There happened to be a man-of-war and an Indian Marine steamer in the harbour at the time, and he did not conceal his admiration of the efficient manner in which the boats of these two ships cleared the Patna of her passengers.
But he would not answer definitely to that, but sat a long time glaring out of his swollen, vindictive countenance propped up in his pillows at the tall, solemn correspondent. By and by he motioned again for paper. "I think so. I am not sure," he miswrote.
Amid the stillness of Nature outside and the house-silence of a love guarding him within, the man worked on. A little clock ticked independently on the old-fashioned Parian marble mantelpiece. Prints were propped against its sides and face, illustrating the use of trees about ancient tombs and temples.
The whole fort is a horribly dirty and tumble-down old place; the roof of the officers' quarters had to be propped up, as it was considered unsafe, and I quite believe it. The rooms had the usual hole in the roof for the smoke to get out at, but Moberly had erected a stove in his room, which was a great improvement.
No doubt, this is brutal and egotistical, but you can not alter it; it is out of small faults that you build up great virtues. And, after all, do not grumble, this very vanity is the foundation stone of that great monument at present still propped up by scaffolding which is called Society. By JULES CLARETIE With a Preface by Compte d'Haussonville of the French Academy
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