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I am afraid he plays too, when he is up to it, but he can't stand much of the stuffiness of the place, and he respects my innocence, poor old beggar; so he has kept out of it, since we have been here. He seems glad to have me to look after him, but afraid to let me stay, for fear of my falling a victim to the place.
If the nurse did constitutionally enjoy a certain stuffiness in her nurseries well the children were out half the day, and it couldn't do them much harm. The night? "Oh! then one must, of course, expect to be a little stuffy." "But," cried Miss Temperley, almost hopeless, "impure air breathed, night after night, is an incessant drain on the strength, even if each time it only does a little harm."
"The sudden change from stuffiness to cold and damp. Craven spoke of Toscanas. And those cheap restaurants are so very small and badly ventilated." "Oh, we enjoyed our walk." "That's good. Craven was quite enthusiastic about the evening." Again the pause dramatic! "He's a nice boy. I hope you liked him. I feel a little responsible " "Do you? But why?" "Because I ventured to introduce him to you."
I remember that the monstrous and grotesque idea crossed my mind the illusion may have been heightened by the heavy stuffiness of the air which we were breathing that we were in four front seats of the stalls at the last act of the drama of the world. In the immediate foreground, beneath our very eyes, was the small yard with the half-cleaned motor-car standing in it.
In the background, among the other elders, stood Paul and Horace and I my husband and I hand in hand; Horace twiddling the black ribbon which holds his watch, and looking bored. Through the open windows into the stuffiness of the best room came an echo of the deep organ note of midsummer.
Early in the afternoon he went to a moving-picture show, but the first sight of the white giant figures bulking against the gray background was wearily unreal; and when the inevitable large-eyed black-braided Indian maiden met the canonical cow-puncher he threshed about in his seat, was irritated by the nervous click of the machine and the hot stuffiness of the room, and ran away just at the exciting moment when the Indian chief dashed into camp and summoned his braves to the war-path.
A round table and two or three chairs were the only furniture there was no room, indeed, for more. The window being shut, and the sunshine glowing upon it, an intolerable stuffiness oppressed the air. Never had I been made so uncomfortable by the odour of printed paper and bindings. 'But, I exclaimed, 'you said you had only a few books! There must be five times as many here as I have.
"Because I'm TIRED of it!" she cried; "sick to the soul of the stuffiness, and the glass cases, and the the GOODNESS of it!" Thorpe remembered his vision of the wild, wind-tossed pines, and sighed. He wanted very, very much to act in accordance with his sister's desires, although he winced under the sharp hurt pang of the sensitive man whose intended kindness is not appreciated.
Joan struggled with the fast-closed window and threw it open, but even so the place retained an atmosphere of overpowering stuffiness, and presently, not staying to unpack or open the letter which had been waiting for her on the hall table, she sallied out again in search of fresh air. She would walk to Knightsbridge, she decided, and so on through the Park.
I turned on the compressed air again for the suit was a bit thick and mackintoshery after all, in spite of the rum and stood recovering myself. It struck coolish down there, and that helped take off the stuffiness a bit." "When I began to feel easier, I started looking about me. It was an extraordinary sight.
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