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The apartments were small, shabbily furnished, inconvenient, and expensive; but the situation was irreproachable, and the haughty Lydia could only exist in an irreproachable situation. Captain Graham finished his cigar, and went out to his club, leaving his sister alone, discontented, gloomy, sullen, to get through the day as best she might.
It was a rich and varied scene; only Dickens could do justice to any description of these state-rooms of the Castle of Sockna. We had first the Mudeer, a little dirty mean-looking Turk, most shabbily attired, with some fifty or sixty winters on his Ottoman brow, but with a sufficiently good-natured face. The Mudeer has been only two months in Sockna.
I'm sure I don't know I would not for the world treat Lord Ballindine shabbily; but what can I do, my dear?" "I think, my lady, we may dispense with any ceremony now, with Lord Ballindine," said the earl. "He will, I am sure, be delighted to be received merely as one of the family. You need not mind asking the O'Joscelyns to-day." "Do you think not?
It was a white night a night so brilliant that the village lights far below in the hollow all but lost their own identity in the radiance of that huge, pale moon; so white that the yellow flare of the single lamp in its bracket, in the back kitchen of the old Bolton place on the hill seemed shabbily dull by contrast.
Then came a day when again a visitor stopped in front of Lass's run. He was not much of a visitor, being a pallid and rather shabbily dressed lad of twelve, with a brand-new chain and collar in his hand.
There were quantities of spirits, consigned mainly to Quartermasters, but evidently the property of certain Shylocks, who watched the barrels greedily. An embalmer was also on board, with his ghostly implements. He was a sallow man, shabbily attired, and appeared to look at all the passengers as so many subjects for the development of his art.
He stopped at a tidy cottage to speak to an old woman who was washing at the door. 'Did you chance to see a strange young 'ooman go by here yesterday, early? he asked. 'What young 'ooman? was the rejoinder. 'Rather shabbily dressed, with blue eyes, and a very pale face? 'Had she a big black dog along, sir? asked a boy who came from within the house. 'I think she had.
The woodpeckers had been busy about the roof during the day, and the noise did not disturb his work. But the opening of the door, and the tapping continuing from the inside, caused him to look up. He was slightly startled by the figure of a young girl, dirty and shabbily clad.
For these many years, since I have lived here in the country, I have had it in my mind to write something about the odour and taste of this well-flavoured earth. The fact is, both the sense of smell and the sense of taste; have been shabbily treated in the amiable rivalry of the senses.
Yet he was shabbily clad; his face was sombre; there seemed little occasion for alarm. There seemed none when he began to speak. "Sir Abbot," he said, "I come to hold my day." "Hast thou brought my pay?" asked the abbot. "Not one penny," answered the knight. "Thou art a shrewd debtor," declared the abbot, with a look of satisfaction. "Sir Justice, drink to me.
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