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Because an old woman has chosen to talk scandal about me, I am placed in a position in my own house which is disgraceful to you and insupportable to myself. This man has been in the habit of coming here on Sundays, and will, of course, know that we are at home. You must manage it as you please. If you choose to receive him, I will go up-stairs."
Horace pulled the bell-cord, but madame was too excitable for that means of communication. She ran into the antechamber, and put her head over the banisters, calling, "Jules! Jules!" louder and louder. She might have heard Jules's slippered feet running from the street into the corridor and up-stairs, had she not been so deaf. He appeared at the door. "But where have you been?
I'll bunk here on the sofy, an' to-morror we'll see what's to be done." Another pause. "Oh, you won't run off 'ith anythin'? I s'pose not. But duty is duty, as I said afore, and I must mind orders. 'Stick by till you git a receipter, sez he. 'I will, sez I, an' I must. Never mind about bedclose. I c'n sleep jest ez I be. You jest go up-stairs. I'll make myself 't home."
"Never again would I blame children for being mischievous when their minds were neglected. I spent a peaceful, pleasant hour over my novel, when I felt that a fresh cigar would be acceptable. Going up-stairs in search of one I found that Budge had filled the bathtub with water, and was sailing boats, that is, hair-brushes.
I really often feel as if I could understand a little more than I ever hear even from young gentlemen who have been to college." Mary had recovered, and she spoke with a suppressed rippling under-current of laughter pleasant to hear. "I don't care how merry you are at my expense this morning," said Fred, "I thought you looked so sad when you came up-stairs.
She preceded him up-stairs. "First I want to show you your own room," said Harboro. "What do you call it? I mean the room in which the lady of the house sits and is contented." I can't imagine what there was in this description which gave Sylvia a hint as to his meaning, but she said: "A boudoir?" And Harboro answered promptly: "That's it!"
"Oh, no no! Please go away." "I won't till you tell me what's up. You're not sick?" Charlotte ran off up-stairs, Jeff following. "Charlotte," he cried, as he pursued her into her room before she could turn and close the door, "what's the use of acting like this? Something's happened, and I'm going to know what it is."
I slipt it into my breast, and ran up-stairs stealthily, trembling lest the old woman should summon me again, at the head of the stairs, into Uncle Silas's room, where under his gaze, I fancied, I should be sure to betray myself. But I glided unseen and safely by, entered my room, and shut my door.
She accepted the homage, laughing almost boisterously, and when the grape-wreath was settled in her golden hair, stood up, a Bacchante that Rubens would have worshipped; for it made no difference to her in what form adulation came, so long as she monopolized it. That moment Caroline was lying upon her bed up-stairs, shaking in every limb, and crying in bitterness of spirit.
Say he carried the Shop about, on his back rather like Jew clothesmen with too much business. 'Which, said Mrs Merdle, rising, with her floating drapery about her, 'is exactly my complaint. Edmund, give me your arm up-stairs. Mr Merdle, left alone to meditate on a better conformation of himself to Society, looked out of nine windows in succession, and appeared to see nine wastes of space.
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