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Marks, shindies, prayers and punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall.... And then out one would come through our grey old gate into the evening light and the spectacle of London hurrying like a cataract, London in black and brown and blue and gleaming silver, roaring like the very loom of Time.
And he always had the feeling of a freed slave when he passed the gate on his return, never failing to note with delight the clean smell of the yard after the stuffiness of school, sucking it in through glad nostrils, and thinking to himself, "O crickey, it's fine to be home!"
In the second case that of Mortimer Tregennis himself you cannot have forgotten the horrible stuffiness of the room when we arrived, though the servant had thrown open the window. That servant, I found upon inquiry, was so ill that she had gone to her bed. You will admit, Watson, that these facts are very suggestive. In each case there is evidence of a poisonous atmosphere.
It was almost too crowded for entry, but we didn't mind that at all, as it forced us to sit very close together. We stayed long after both of us had begun to notice the stuffiness of the air. It was just after we had returned to our seats that the catastrophe occurred.
Pagnell cried, upon entering the small inn parlour; and so genuine was her satisfaction that for a time she paid no heed to the stuffiness of the room, the meanness of the place, the unfitness of such a hostelry to entertain ladies the Countess of Ormont! 'Eat here? Mrs. Pagnell asked, observing the preparations for the meal. Her pride quailed, her stomach abjured appetite.
"You may well laugh, messieurs," she threw them all a lively challenging glance "when I tell you that to-day, for the first time in my life, I acknowledge masculine supremacy! I think that you will admit that we women are not afraid of pain, but the discomfort, the the stuffiness?
I didn't like to send it, but had to, for I need money as I do air.... I have had a letter from Leman. I wrote to say that I agreed, and asked him how does he know with whom I have solidarity and with whom I have not? How fond of stuffiness you are in Petersburg! Don't you feel stifled with such words as "solidarity," "unity of young writers," "common interests," and so on?
Good-bye," and he rang off without waiting for a reply. Hal went back to her work, with a pleasurable sensation that instead of grey stuffiness there was joyful sunshine. She had never imagined for a moment het would actually carry out his suggestion of a meetingt; and here they were with an actual appointment.
"Then why the stuffiness?" asked King. "Why am I talked to at the end of a tube, so to speak?" "You're under arrest!" said Courtenay. "The deuce I am!" "I'm taking care of you myself to obviate the necessity of putting a sentry on guard over you." "Good of you, I'm sure. What's it all about?" "I don't mind telling you, but I'd rather you'd wait.
The station agent's announcement had possessed little meaning for her. There was no wind; the sun was shining brightly now; during the minute she had remained on the station platform she had felt nothing unusual. As a matter of fact she had enjoyed the keen brisk air after the tepid stuffiness of the cars. But presently she began to realize a certain tingling and sharp quality of the air.
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