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The room in which he was standing was furnished in embossed leather. A leather couch stood near one of the windows, and a large reclining-chair of the same material was drawn up before the fireplace. Near the mantel was a pipe-rack filled with fine specimens of briar-wood and meerschaum pipes.
In seven months her face, although still beautiful, had become emaciated, and had a transparent look. The little hand, white as snow, which she gave to Varhely, burned him; the skin was dry and hot. "Well, my dear Count," said Marsa, as she lay extended in a reclining-chair, "what news of General Vogotzine?" "The General is well. He hopes to return to Russia.
By some diabolical prevision he anticipated Madame's every need and wish placed her reclining-chair in the most sheltered spots on deck, smothered her in layer upon layer of wraps, and conducted himself, generally, in the most inconsiderate way.
"Then I'll go right now and see him," rejoined Kate, rising to her feet and hurrying into the next room. Left alone, Billy lay back wearily in her reclining-chair. She wondered why Kate always tired her so. She wished she had had on her blue kimono, then perhaps Kate would not have thought she looked so badly. Blue was always more becoming to her than Billy turned her head suddenly.
Mr Russell fainting. Let him go, Mr Vandean. I'll drop him into this seat." The captain dragged a cane reclining-chair forward, and lowered the feeble man gently down. "There, he will soon come to," said the captain. "He is too weak to be on deck." "The sight of the men drowning upset him, sir." "Of course, Mr Vandean. It nearly upset me, who have not been ill.
Sheltered from the rain by the bridge-deck and from the spray and gale by heavy canvas lashed athwartship in front of the captain's room, and securely strapped in her reclining-chair, this young lady fairly rejoiced in the magnificent battle with the elements and gloried in the bursting seas.
He stooped and crept cautiously over the carpet, following the outlines of the reclining-chair. When he reached the extremity of it, he stopped in order to repress the throbbing of his heart. Although he was not moved by any sense of fear, he found it impossible to overcome the nervous anxiety that one usually feels in the midst of profound silence.
"I'm glad you've got a little place of your own, and don't have to sit with those poor creatures downstairs all the time." "It is much nicer. Some of them are getting better, though." "Some of them aren't. There's one poor fellow in a reclining-chair who looks badly." "That's the one whose room Mrs. Watson has marked for her own.
Good-morning." And she vanished, sweet and smiling, and he "went off mad," swearing mad. That very afternoon an ambulance arrived from Laramie with Ray. Oh, what a jubilee they had! and how those women fluttered around him as he sat in a low reclining-chair on the piazza of the quarters made ready for him!
Britton, in a comfortable reclining-chair, sat silent, motionless, his head thrown back, his eyes nearly closed, but in the varying expression of his mobile face Darrell found both inspiration and compensation.
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