CranfordMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 297 pagina's |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
afraid Alderney Arley Arley Hall asked baby began believe calashes called candle Captain Brown comfort Cranford ladies curtsey daughter dear Miss Matty Deborah door dress Drumble eyes face father feel Fitz-Adam Forrester friends gave give gone gown green tea hand Heading to Chapter heard heart Hoggins Holbrook Honourable Jamieson Jenkyns's kind knew Knutsford Lady Glenmire letters live looked ma'am married Martha Matty's mind Miss Barker Miss Brown Miss Jenkyns Miss Jessie Miss Matilda Miss Pole mistress morning mother Mulliner never night once Pole's poor Peter pretty Queen Adelaide rector remember round Sedan Chair seemed seen Shetland wool Signor Brunoni silence silk sister smiling speak spoke sure Tailpiece to Chapter talk tell things thought told took town turban voice walked window wished wonder words young
Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - ... knife. I saw, I imitated, I survived ! My friends, in spite of my precedent, could not muster up courage enough to do an ungenteel thing ; and, if Mr. Holbrook had not been so heartily hungry, he would probably have seen that the good peas went away almost untouched. After dinner a clay pipe was brought in, and a spittoon ; and, asking us to retire to another room, where he would soon join us, if we disliked tobaccosmoke, he presented his pipe to Miss Matty, and requested her to fill the bowl.
Pagina 2 - In short, whatever docs become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. What could they do if they were there ? The surgeon has his round of thirty miles, and sleeps at Cranford ; but every man cannot be a surgeon. For keeping the trim gardens full of choice flowers without a weed to speck them ; for frightening away little boys who look wistfully at the said flowers through the railings ; for rushing out...
Pagina xx - A thought strikes me. Bo you, who have so many friends, —so large a circle of acquaintance,—find it easy, "when you sit down to write, to isolate yourself from, all those ties, and their sweet associations, so as to be your own woman } uninfluenced or swayed by the consciousness of how your work may affect other minds; what blame or what sympathy it may call forth...
Pagina 77 - They were usually brought in with tea ; but we only burnt one at a time. As we lived in constant preparation for a friend who might come in any evening (but who never did), it required some contrivance to keep our two candles of the same length, ready to be lighted, and to look as if we burnt two always. The candles took it in turns ; and, whatever...
Pagina 14 - a little out of tune ; but we were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so. It was very good of Miss Jenkyns to do this ; for I had seen that, a little before, she had been a good deal annoyed by Miss Jessie Brown's unguarded admission (apropos of Shetland wool) that she had an uncle, her mother's brother, who was a shopkeeper in Edinburgh.
Pagina 1 - Cranford is in possession of the Amazons ; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears ; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad.
Pagina 156 - Room ; no handsome artist won hearts by his bow, chapeau bras in hand ; the old room was dingy ; the salmon-coloured paint had faded into a drab ; great pieces of plaster had chipped off from the white wreaths and festoons on its walls ; but still a mouldy odour of aristocracy lingered about the place, and a dusty recollection of the days that were gone made Miss Matty and Mrs.
Pagina 63 - I was again his companion in a turn which he said he was obliged to take to see after his men. He strode along, either wholly forgetting my existence, or soothed into silence by his pipe — and yet it was not silence exactly. He walked before me, with a stooping gait, his hands clasped behind him; and, as some tree or cloud, or glimpse of distant upland pastures, struck him, he quoted poetry to himself, saying it out loud in a grand, sonorous voice, with just the emphasis that true feeling and appreciation...
Pagina vi - Thank you for your letter; it was as pleasant as a quiet chat, as welcome as spring showers, as reviving as a friend's visit; in short, it was very like a page of "Cranford."* A thought strikes me.
Pagina 176 - Well, Miss Matty! men will be men. Every mother's son of them wishes to be considered Samson and Solomon rolled into one — too strong ever to be beaten or discomfited — too wise ever to be outwitted. If you will notice, they have always foreseen events, though they never tell one for one's warning before the events happen; my father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.