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Pagina 14
... usual ; it was the third week in November , so the evenings closed in about four . Candles , and clean packs of cards were arranged on each table . The fire was made up ; the neat maid - servant had received her last directions ; and ...
... usual ; it was the third week in November , so the evenings closed in about four . Candles , and clean packs of cards were arranged on each table . The fire was made up ; the neat maid - servant had received her last directions ; and ...
Pagina 15
... usual , and seemed nearly as popular as her father . He immediately and quietly assumed the man's place in the room ; attended to every one's wants , lessened the pretty maid - servant's labour by waiting on empty cups , and bread - and ...
... usual , and seemed nearly as popular as her father . He immediately and quietly assumed the man's place in the room ; attended to every one's wants , lessened the pretty maid - servant's labour by waiting on empty cups , and bread - and ...
Pagina 20
... usual , and we were obliged to conclude he had forgotten all about Sunday . Miss Pole and Miss Jessie Brown had set up a kind of intimacy , on the strength of the Shetland wool and the new knitting stitches ; so it happened that when I ...
... usual , and we were obliged to conclude he had forgotten all about Sunday . Miss Pole and Miss Jessie Brown had set up a kind of intimacy , on the strength of the Shetland wool and the new knitting stitches ; so it happened that when I ...
Pagina 26
... usual cooked , but the best part of all comes in a little covered basin for my sister . The poor people will leave their earliest vegetables at our door for her . They speak short and gruff , as if they were ashamed of it ; but I am ...
... usual cooked , but the best part of all comes in a little covered basin for my sister . The poor people will leave their earliest vegetables at our door for her . They speak short and gruff , as if they were ashamed of it ; but I am ...
Pagina 66
... usual custom . I fancied Miss Matty must be dreaming of her early life ; for she spoke one or two words in her uneasy sleep , bearing reference to persons who were dead long before . When Martha brought in the lighted candle and tea ...
... usual custom . I fancied Miss Matty must be dreaming of her early life ; for she spoke one or two words in her uneasy sleep , bearing reference to persons who were dead long before . When Martha brought in the lighted candle and tea ...
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afraid Alderney Arley Arley Hall asked baby began begged believe by-and-by calashes called candle Captain Brown comfits comfort Cranford ladies crying daughter dear Miss Matty Deborah door drawing-room dress Drumble eyes face father feel Fitz-Adam Forrester friends gave genteel give gone gown green tea hand head heard heart Hoggins Holbrook Honourable Jamieson Jenkyns's kind knew Lady Glenmire letters live looked ma'am marriage 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 seemed seen servant shawl Shetland wool Signor Brunoni silence silk sister smiled speak spoke sure talk tell things thought told took town turban turned voice walked wife window wished wonder words
Populaire passages
Pagina 17 - Mr. Boz, and Dr. Johnson." She read one of the conversations between Rasselas and Imlac, in a high-pitched majestic voice ; and when she had ended, she said, " I imagine I am now justified in my preference of Dr. Johnson as a writer of fiction.
Pagina 12 - ... and it was said she thought of trying a bath of oil. This remedy, perhaps, was recommended by some one of the number whose advice she asked ; but the proposal, if ever it was made, was knocked on the head by Captain Brown's decided " Get her a flannel waistcoat and flannel drawers, ma'am, if you wish to keep her alive. But my advice is, kill the poor creature at once.
Pagina 55 - 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 give. We came upon an old cedar-tree, which stood at one end of the house — "The cedar...
Pagina 56 - No more did I — an old fool that I am ! — till this young man comes and tells me. Black as ash-buds in March. And I've lived all my life in the country ; more shame for me not to know. Black : they are jet-black, madam.
Pagina 56 - Hall, and had a comfortable nap, unobserved, till he ended; when the cessation of his "voice wakened her up, and she said, feeling that something was expected, and that Miss Pole was counting 'What a pretty book!' Pretty, madam! it's beautiful! Pretty, indeed!
Pagina 66 - 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 we might be talking about or doing, Miss Matty's eyes were habitually fixed upon the candle, ready to jump up and extinguish it and to light the other...
Pagina 51 - Altogether, I never met with a man, before or since, who had spent so long a life in a secluded and not impressive country, with ever-increasing delight in the daily and yearly change of season and beauty. When he and I went in, we found that dinner was nearly ready in the kitchen — for so I suppose the room ought to be called, as there were oak dressers and cupboards all round, all over by the side of the fireplace, and only a small Turkey carpet in the middle of the flag-floor.
Pagina 10 - Captain, and had obtained some situation on a neighbouring railroad, which had been vehemently petitioned against by the little town; and if, in addition to his masculine gender, and his connection with the obnoxious railroad, he was so brazen as to talk of being poor — why, then, indeed, he must be sent to Coventry. Death was as true and as common as poverty; yet people never spoke about that, loud out in the streets. It was a word not to be mentioned to ears polite. We had tacitly agreed to ignore...
Pagina 43 - When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit; for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where; sucking (only I think she used some more recondite word) was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies ; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise -up, possess themselves each of an orange in...
Pagina 50 - June day — for it was June now. He named that he had also invited his cousin, Miss Pole; so that we might join in a fly, which could be put up at his house. I expected Miss Matty to jump at this invitation; but, no! Miss Pole and I had the greatest difficulty in persuading her to go. She thought it was improper; and was even half annoyed when we utterly ignored the idea of any impropriety in her going with two other ladies to see her old lover. Then came a more serious difficulty. She did not think...