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Lady Katherine said to me after dinner this evening that she was sorry, as she was afraid it would be most awkward for me their having a party, on account of my deep mourning, and I, if I felt it dreadfully, I need not consider they would find me the least rude if I preferred to have dinner in my room. I don't want to have dinner in my room. Think of the stuffiness of it!
'If you could kindly move your things off this chair! in a voice that would blow brains out if it were a bullet. I venture to say that you know those days. 'But, you reply, 'such days are few. Usually...! Well, usually, the friction, though less intense, is still proceeding. We grow accustomed to it. We scarcely notice it, as a person in a stuffy chamber will scarcely notice the stuffiness.
"Getting on well with your new work?" he asked, as he took unwilling note of the half-consumed brandy and soda on the table, of the saucer of cigarette ends beside it, and the general untidiness and stuffiness of the room. "Not bad," said Maurice, resuming his cigarette. "What is it?" "An agency one of these new phonographs Yankee of course. I manage the office.
"It is a splendid place, isn't it? Sometimes I can scarcely work, I'm so interested in the people there. There are so many types; and yet there is a kind of sameness in them all. One seems to lose one's identity the moment one enters, to become merged in the general general " "Stuffiness," he said. "I know; I have been there. Do you manage to keep your health?
She buried her head very deep in the cushion, vainly striving to blot out the world and Annalise in its feathers, but even there there was no peace, for suddenly a great noise of doors going and legs striding penetrated through its stuffiness and she heard Fritzing's voice very loud and near all sounds in Creeper Cottage were loud and near ordering Annalise to ask her Grand Ducal Highness to descend.
At length she found herself on the ferry-boat, in the soothing stuffiness of the crowded cabin; then came another interval of shivering on a street-corner, another long jolting journey in a "cross-town" car that smelt of damp straw and tobacco; and lastly, in the cold spring dusk, she unlocked her door and groped her way through the shop to her fireless bedroom. The next morning Mrs.
But I can't bear to think of you and Mrs. Quinn. Poverty like that in Dublin! Have you thought what it means? A shabby little house in a crowded street, off at the back of somewhere; dirt and stuffiness and vulgarity all around you. She can't be expected to stand it or you either. 'My dear boy, said Mr. Quinn, 'my wife and I have been trying all our lives to be Christians.
Ah, no I could not have borne much longer the horrible discomfort and stuffiness of that dreadful little Neptune of yours!" Protesting voices rose on every side. The Neptune was not uncomfortable! The Neptune was not stuffy! "And I understand" again she made a little grimace "that it is quite an exceptional thing for the crew to be consoled, as I was to-day, by an ice-pail!"
She resented the stuffiness of it all, the air of musty preciousness that pervaded the room. And when John took both her hands and said: "Now the collection is itself again; the queen has come home," she broke down and cried. She did much of that in the weeks that followed. You would have supposed her another person than plucky Miriam Baxter. But the situation hardly made for cheerfulness.
"Tell her not to play so LOUD," whispered Marietta. The captain obeyed. "Come, come, Primmie," he said, irritably. "Go easy on it, soften her down. Play low. And stop stompin' out the time with your foot." Thus cautioned Miss Cash played low, very low, and also very slowly. "The Sweet By and By" droned on, over and over, in the dark stuffiness of the crowded room.
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