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Updated: June 5, 2025
The inner pavilion in which the guests of Ptolemy reclined, contained one hundred and thirty-five couches. Over the roof was placed a scarlet awning, with a fringe of white, and there were many other awnings, richly embroidered with mythological designs. The pillars which sustained the roof were shaped in the likeness of palm-trees, and of thyrsi, the weapons of the wine-god Dionysus.
"I will try to remember the last stanza and the envoi as we go along," added Victor. And together they passed down the ravine, two brave hearts assuming a gaiety which deceived only the Chevalier, who still reclined against the boulder and was proceeding silently to inspect the golden plush of an empty bur.
Others reclined against the wooden fence, their arms crossed, their thin white hair waving gently in the breeze, and a kind smile playing on their sunburned faces, as they observed the swagger and coxcombry of the younger men, or watched the gambols of several dark-eyed little children embryo buffalo-hunters and voyageurs whose mothers had brought them to the fort to get a last kiss from papa, and witness the departure of the boats.
He stood with his back to the fireplace, a tall, stately figure of a man, and looked at her expectantly, she meanwhile reclined in a cushioned chair with the folds of her ermine falling about her, like a queen of languorous luxury. "I suppose," she began "hardly anything in the social life of our day would very much surprise or shock you ?"
A Shawnee squaw was occupied in preparing the morning meal, while her liege lord still reclined in one corner, in the vain effort to secure a few minutes more of slumber. This latter personage was Hans Vanderbum our friend Hans a huge, plethoric, stolid, lazy Dutchman, who had "married" an Indian widow several years before.
A young man, gaunt, pale, wrapped in blankets, half sat, half reclined in an invalid's chair; the old lady, on her knees, the tears streaming down her face, had her arms around the sick man's neck; while the other man, apparently upset at the scene, tugged vigorously at long, gray mustaches. "Sammy! Sammy!" sobbed the woman piteously. "Say you didn't do it, Sammy say you didn't do it!"
Still hopeless, for no answer bids him drop his fears. Now the fact is assured that something serious has happened. John jumps to the ground, desirous of seeing whether they have actually reached the spot where the wrecked omnibus lies. He finds it to be true, and in another moment is standing upon the very place where Aunt Gwen reclined at the time of his departure.
Within the space of an hour both were seized with violent palpitations, and a general numbness gradually ensued; they arose from the floor, where they had remained ever since the Caliph’s departure, and, ascending to the sofa, reclined themselves at full length upon it, clasped in each other’s embraces.
Near the carriage stood a boy apparently about ten years old, who with a small walking-stick was maliciously pushing the dainty millinery bubble as far beyond reach as possible. In the carriage, and partly covered by a costly and brilliant afghan, reclined a forlorn and truly pitiable creature, who seemed to have sunk down helplessly on the cushions.
Instead of assisting at the banquet, as other ladies used, seated on a chair or at the foot of her husband's couch, she reclined on a couch of her own, behind which stood busts of Sappho the poetess, and Aspasia the friend of Pericles.
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