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Updated: May 21, 2025
"There was plenty of snow and ice about, but nothing for the birds to drink; so my sister used to put a saucer of water on the window-ledge each morning. The birds would come from a long way off to get a sip from it, and they were always glad to pick up a few crumbs she strewed for them."
In this parlour it was that the literary society assembled for their banquet; as many as could find room squeezing themselves on to the two short forms on either side of the table, and the remainder camping out wherever they could find room on the chairs, window-ledge, and a small sofa.
When you whistled to let me know it was time, I crept out with a stool I had provided; I put it up against the wall, and mounted upon it; with my six feet, that made nine, and I could lean my elbows on the window-ledge; I took the shutter in one hand, and the haft of my knife in the other, and, whilst I broke two of the panes, I pushed the shutter with all my might."
When she is here she shall not have any steps to go up to reach you, and shall live directly next to you. Why do you wear mournful black in dress and heart, my angel? Cultivate the green of hope that today made right joyous revelry in me at sight of its external image, when the gardener placed the first messengers of spring, hyacinths and crocus, on my window-ledge.
Tom had thought it out the first night that the image of Miss Betty had kept him awake and that was the first night Miss Carewe spent in Rouen the St. Mary's girl would be sure to go to mass every day, which was why the window-ledge was dusted the next morning.
Judge now between me and this guest. One morning I went to my wife; for the burden was past bearing, and I must satisfy myself. I found her tending the plants on her window-ledge; and when she turned, I saw that years had not taken from her comeliness one jot. And I was old. So I taxed her on the matter of this Stranger, saying this and that, and how I had cause to believe he loved her.
The Captain put the letter down with an exclamation which startled the sparrows on the window-ledge, and set the breakfast cup shaking in its saucer. "Coming home!" he gasped. Then he read on. "I look forward to inquiring personally after your health and prospects, in which, as you know, my dear fellow, I am much interested.
He is yours by every sacred tie, and no treacherous female friend must wrest him from you. Lady Newhaven put the letter in her pocket, and then fainted away, with her fair head on the window-ledge. "There cannot be a pinch in death more sharp than this is."
There were some colored prints of battles and shipwrecks wafered to the walls; a couple of flower-pots in the narrow space between the window-ledge and the coping outside; a dingy canary in a wire cage; a rival mechanical cuckoo in a Dutch clock in the corner; a little bed with striped hangings; a rush-bottomed prie-dieu chair in front of a plain black crucifix, over which drooped a faded branch of consecrated palm; and some few articles of household furniture of the humblest description.
She whistled again, and he piped back an impudent response, and for quite five minutes the two held an elaborate altercation between tree-top and window-ledge. Lloyd caught herself laughing outright and aloud for no assignable reason. "Ah, the world was a pretty good place after all!"
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