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Updated: May 27, 2025
He had watched the marble images of her which stood in his working-room, under all changes of light and shade in the brightening of morning, in the blackening of eve, in moonlight, in lamplight.
"I felt confident that I had him by the right handle then; for an author's library, which is commonly his working-room, is, like a lady's boudoir, a sacred apartment. "So we went upstairs, and again he got me with the daylight on my face, when I wanted it on has. "You have a fine library, I remarked. There were books all round the room, and one of those whirligig square book-cases.
We all have read of the favorable effects which were secured in a factory when a cat was brought into every working-room in which women laborers were engaged in especially fatiguing work. The cat became a living toy for the employees, which stimulated their social consciousness.
She had a gentle voice and was full of sympathy, and seeing our plight took us into the kitchen behind the parlour, which was living- and working-room as well, to dry ourselves by the fire. "The greatest pleasure in life," said once a magnificent young athlete, a great pedestrian, to me, "is to rest when you are tired."
It is settled that we go, and I defy Maurice or any one else to keep me." Madeleine had been visiting the working-room, and, without being aware of what had just taken place, she now entered her aunt's chamber.
The seats are small wooden chairs, but there are also small wicker armchairs and sofas. In the working-room there are two indispensable pieces of furniture. One of these is a very long cupboard with large doors. Inside this cupboard is kept the didactic material which is the common property of all the children. Every child has his own drawer, in which to put things belonging to him.
Poynsett," continued Mrs. Duncombe, "will you give a hint to Mrs. Miles Charnock that it will never do to preach to the women at the working-room? I don't mean holding forth," she added, seeing Cecil's look of amazement; "but improving the occasion, talking piously, giving tracts, and so forth." "I thought you gave sanitary tracts!" said Lady Tyrrell. "That is quite different."
It was a working-room indeed; the caprice of a wealthy young man, who amused himself in his leisure hours by painting on glass. He had re-found the ancient methods of the thirteenth century, so that he could fancy himself as being one of the primitive glass-workers, producing masterpieces with the poor, unfinished means of the older time. An ancient table answered all his purposes.
He fingered the card, scrutinized it carefully, turned it over, looked heavenward reflectively, as though the final permission for the visit remained with him, and finally admitted the visitor. "Mr. Ingolby ain't in," he said. "He went out a little while back. You got to wait," he added sulkily, as he showed the Romany into Ingolby's working-room.
I remember an illuminating talk with M. Renan himself on this subject during our visit. We had never yet seen him, and we carried an introduction to him from Max Mueller, our neighbor and friend in Oxford. We found him alone, in a small working-room crowded with books, at the College de France. Madame Renan was away, and he had abandoned his large library for something more easily warmed.
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