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"You know what I told you," he said. "I don't choose to have anything to do with that branch of our family." "Yes, ducky, but I don't know why I shouldn't." Soames turned on his heel. "I'm not going into the reasons," he said; "you ought to trust me, Fleur!" The way he spoke those words affected Fleur, but she thought of Jon, and was silent, tapping her foot against the wainscot.
The table which stood in the way was upset, and immediately there began a hewing, breaking and hammering against the hollow wainscot. Every one strove to surpass the other in diligence, and, to animate the labourers, the painter again blew a charge on the horn, and in the midst of the racket all cried as if they were possessed, "Wood, wood!
Bothwyn By-Church, to which I had the privilege of being elected when my poor father was clerk of the Company, and lived in the old hall till he bought this little house in Hoxton. Ah me! how I seem to see the old black oaken wainscot of the court room, and the little parlour where the firelight danced in deep crimson flecks and pools in the polished floor, and the shadowy panels!
Your pity leans toward her strangely, as she feels her way about the old parlor; and her dark eyes wander over the wainscot, or over the clear, blue sky, with the same sad, painful vacancy. And yet it is very strange! she does not grieve: there is a sweet, soft smile upon her lip, a smile, that will come to you in your fancied troubles of after-life with a deep voice of reproach.
Every one knows what a fascination there is in wandering up and down in a deserted old tenement in some warm, dreamy country; where the vacant halls seem echoing of silence, and the doors creak open like the footsteps of strangers; and into every window the old garden trees thrust their dark boughs, like the arms of night-burglars; and ever and anon the nails start from the wainscot; while behind it the mice rattle like dice.
But when he returned Binks was still exhaling vigorously at a hole in the wainscot, behind which he fancied he had detected a sound. With the chance of a mouse on the horizon he became like Gamaliel, and cared for none of these things. . . . A taxi drove up to the door, and Vane threw down the book he was pretending to read, and listened with his heart in his mouth.
And having arrived at this confusion in his personal pronouns, Capua mounted nimbly on pieces of furniture, thrust his pocket-knife through a crack of the wainscot, opened the door of a small unseen closet, and, after groping about and inserting his head as Van Amburgh did in the lion's mouth, scrambled down again with his hand full of charred and blackened papers, talking glibly all the while.
"You know what I told you," he said. "I don't choose to have anything to do with that branch of our family." "Yes, ducky, but I don't know why I shouldn't." Soames turned on his heel. "I'm not going into the reasons," he said; "you ought to trust me, Fleur!" The way he spoke those words affected Fleur, but she thought of Jon, and was silent, tapping her foot against the wainscot.
Darkness had fallen an hour before, and the room, with its quaint old furniture, tapestry-hung walls, and old oaken floor strewn with Bokhara rugs, was lighted by three swinging-lamps that cast red reflections upon the polished wood of wainscot and floor. Mother and son sat side by side at the table, and, while they ate, made little attempt at conversation.
The columns are spaced so as to form a wide central archway flanked by two narrow ones, the effect being a staircase vista unexcelled in the domestic architecture of Philadelphia. The picture is enriched by a heavily paneled wainscot and handsome, deeply embrasured doorways with architrave casings, paneled jambs and soffits.
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