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They had become grave, and examined him seriously with a sort of deep inquiry. He sat upon the Arab rug, leaning his back against the wall of the traveller's house. "Why do you look at me like that, Domini?" he asked with a sudden stirring of something that was like uneasiness. "I! I was wondering what you would like, what other life would suit you." "Yes?" he said quickly. "Yes?"
Touchett nay, even her tastes as to the Invalid's letters in the "Traveller's Review," remained only partially revealed, in spite of Rachel's best efforts at fishing, and attempting to set the example. "It really seemed," as she observed to Grace, "as if the more I talk, the less she says."
It was but as a leaf which the great storm swept away as it passed. THE TRAVELLER'S STORY OF A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED, By Wilkie Collins
'Nay, I dunnot know, said she; 'the Corneys made us acquaint first, and my master is quite fain of his company. 'And do you like him, too, aunt? asked Hepburn, almost wistfully; he had followed Mrs. Robson into the dairy on pretence of helping her. 'I'm none fond on him; I think he tells us traveller's tales, by way o' seeing how much we can swallow.
Nature is losing fast her ancient garb and putting on a new dress in these extensive regions. Most of the stately timber has been carried away; thousands of trees are lying prostrate on the ground; while meadows, cornfields, villages and pastures are ever and anon bursting upon the traveller's view as he journeys on through the remaining tracts of wood.
A man outside replied, "A benighted traveller overt aken by the storm" He proceeded to implore help, and begged for God's sake that he might have shelter for the night. Naesmyth, in the full belief that the traveller's tale was true, unbolted and unbarred the door, when in rushed Rob Roy and his desperate gang.
Some one has found, or invented, a story of a shipwrecked traveller's hailing the gallows as the sure token of a civilized community.
In his most characteristic development the American hotel clerk is an urbane living encyclopædia, as passionless as the gods, as unbiassed as the multiplication table, and as tireless as a Corliss engine. Traveller's tales as to the system of "tipping" in American hotels differ widely.
The look, which was very eloquent, aroused yet more the traveller's spleen. "Pleasant!" said he. "Cott! I suppose you will ask me to go outside next! But people who travel in a coach should know the law of a coach. I don't interfere with your window; you have no business to interfere with mine." "Sir, I did not speak," said Mr. Digby, meekly. "But Miss here did."
At length a female, closely veiled, and buried in shawls like a sultana, tremblingly took the proffered arm, and tottered into the hotel. Shortly after, mine host returned, attended by porter, waiter, and stable-boy and giving, by the lady's orders, a handsome gratuity to each of the post-boys, asked for the traveller's luggage. There was none!
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