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Helena, and that his schemes for the reorganization of Europe failed. I know that many people in England are not daunted but depressed by the military successes of the enemy. Our soldiers in the field are not depressed. But we who are kept at home suffer from the miasma of the back-parlour.
Penniket was closeted with Zillah and her cousin Melky Rubinstein in the back-parlour of the shop in Praed Street behind closed and locked doors which they had no intention of opening to anybody. Now that the old man was dead and buried, it was necessary to know how things stood with respect to his will and his property, and, as Mr.
"That's one thing. And I want to find out how that last cheque of theirs got into our back-parlour! Was it sent by post or was it delivered by hand? And if by hand who delivered it?" "You're a cute 'un, you are!" observed Ayscough. "You'd better join us." "Thank you, Mr. Ayscough, but events has happened which'll keep me busy at something else," said Melky, cheerfully.
In the drawing-room, after dinner, some allusion to the later Platonists caused D'Israeli to flare up. His wild black eyes glistened, and his nervous lips poured out eloquence, while a whole ottomanful of noble exquisites listened in amazement. He gave an account of Thomas Taylor, one of the last of the Platonists, who had worshipped Jupiter in a back-parlour in London a few years before.
"On the table in the back-parlour where I saw it when I came in. My grandfather had taken it out of the front window, so that he could polish the rings." "Do you know how many rings it contained?" "No. Perhaps twenty-five or thirty." "They are, I see, laid loosely in the tray, which is velvet-lined. They were always left like that? Just so.
Then he lifted with much solemnity a hinged portion of the counter, and requested his visitors to pass into the back-parlour. Here there was the same perfect cleanliness, though the furniture was scant and very simple. The round table was laid for tea, with a spotless cloth, plates of a very demonstrative pattern, and knives and forks which seemed only just to have left the ironmonger's shop.
At the moment of our arrival the Matron was presiding in the drawing-room over a meeting of a Missionary League for the Conversion of the Jews, so we were taken through a narrow lobby into a little back-parlour which overlooked, through a glass screen, a large apartment, wherein a number of young women, who had the appearance of dressmakers, ladies' maids, and governesses, were sewing tiny pieces of linen and flannel that were obviously baby-clothes.
To my great delight the paper was in its place; with a beating heart I entered, there was nobody in the shop; as I stood at the counter, however, deliberating whether or not I should call out, the door of what seemed to be a back-parlour opened, and out came a well-dressed lady-like female, of about thirty, with a good-looking and intelligent countenance.
"Oh! another patient," thought the Doctor; "these soldiers are careless fellows often get into scrapes. Yes, friend, I'm at your service." The Corporal showed the man of phials into the back-parlour, and, hemming thrice, looked sheepish, as if in doubt how to begin. It was the Doctor's business to encourage the bashful.
Paul had not long to play the amiable, before Tomlinson rejoined him with the information that Gentleman George would be most happy to see him in the back-parlour, and that he would there find an old friend in the person of Mr. Pepper. "What! is he here?" cried Paul. "The sorry knave, to let me be caged in his stead!" "Gently, gently; no misapplication of terms!" said Augustus.
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