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"Had I not better go down to Rose Cottage and offer my services?" "No," said Mrs. Octagon sharply, "don't mix yourself up in this dreadful affair. Few people know that Selina was my sister, and I don't want everyone to be condoling with me on this tragedy." "But we must do something," said Juliet quickly. "We will wait, my dear. But I don't want more publicity than is necessary."
Having taken the keen edge off an appetite the cold air had whetted to the sharpest, I began an inspection of my quarters, first having replenished the fire with some logs of wood. The chamber was an octagon, with five windows in as many of the faces, a fireplace and two doors occupying the other three.
"Basil got that from Mallow's room. He gave it to his mother, and " "This is all theory," said Caranby angrily, "you have no grounds." "None at all," replied Maraquito calmly, "but if anyone had a wish to kill my aunt, Mrs. Octagon had. Emilia kept a tight hold over that woman, and made her do what she wished." "About the marriage?" "Yes, and other things.
It will be remembered that the tomb-house begun by Dom Duarte took the form of a vast octagon some seventy-two feet in diameter surrounded by seven apsidal chapels one on each side except that towards the church and by eight smaller chapels between the apses.
The moment of her stepping forward in the Octagon Room to speak to him: the moment of Mr Elliot's appearing and tearing her away, and one or two subsequent moments, marked by returning hope or increasing despondency, were dwelt on with energy.
She can't be in love with me, as I never saw her before. All the same, it is strange about the portrait." It was now about four o'clock, and Cuthbert fancied that after all it would be best to boldly ring at the door and ask admission, in spite of Mrs. Octagon.
It had neither parapet nor corner pinnacles to hide the transition from the square to the octagon, nor splaying to make this change less abrupt. Sloane's model of its woodwork is still to be seen in the crypt, in a very damaged state.
The octagon form was often adopted in the lady-chapels at the east end of our most ancient cathedrals, where the recesses were devoted to tombs and private chapels. The upper or clere story is supported on arches, with an enriched gothic window in each compartment.
In another there is a square, together with five rectangles in which the length is always equal to the side of the square while the breadth gradually decreases. In another drawer there are six regular polygons containing from five to ten sides, i.e., the pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, and decagon.
'It is agreeable to live in a country where your guests amuse themselves. At the end of the principal gallery, Henrietta perceived an open door which admitted them into a small octagon chamber, of Ionic architecture. The walls were not hung with pictures, and one work of art alone solicited their attention.
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