CranfordHenry Altemus, 1892 - 294 pagina's |
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Pagina 27 - ... would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed ! she knew they were superior. — But to return to her letters. Everything in them was stately and grand, like herself. I have been looking them over (dear Miss Jenkyns, how I...
Pagina 7 - What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us ?' And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent: 'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?
Pagina 21 - I seen written and corrected on the slate, before she ' seized the half-hour just previous to post-time to assure ' her friends of this or of that ; and Dr. Johnson was, as she said, her model in these compositions. She drew herself up with dignity, and only replied to Captain Brown's last remark by saying, with marked emphasis on every syllable, ' I prefer Dr. Johnson to Mr. Boz.
Pagina 82 - Tonquin beans in the room. I had always noticed this scent about any of the things which had belonged to her mother ; and many of the letters were addressed to her — yellow bundles of love-letters, sixty or seventy years old. Miss Matty undid the packet with a sigh ; but she stifled it directly, as if it were hardly right to regret the flight of time, or of life either. We agreed to look them over separately, each taking a different letter out of the same bundle and describing its contents to the...
Pagina 148 - ... with her fore-feet straight down, so that they were fastened, and could not scratch, and we gave her a teaspoonful of currant-jelly, in which (your ladyship must excuse me) I had mixed some tartar emetic. I shall never forget how anxious I was for the next half-hour. I took pussy to my own room, and spread a clean towel on the floor. I could have kissed her when she returned the lace to sight, very much as it had gone down. Jenny had boiling water ready, and we soaked it and soaked it, and spread...
Pagina 52 - Jenkyns used to gather currants and gooseberries for it herself, which I sometimes thought would have tasted better fresh from the trees ; but then, as Miss Jenkyns observed, there would have been nothing for dessert in summer-time. As it was, we felt very genteel with our two glasses apiece, and a dish of gooseberries at the top, of currants and biscuits at the sides, and two decanters at the bottom. When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the...
Pagina 67 - Is the man going mad? thought I. He is very like Don Quixote. "What colour are they, I say?" repeated he vehemently. "I am sure I don't know, sir," said I, with the meekness of ignorance.
Pagina 64 - When the ducks and green peas came, we looked at each other in dismay; we had only two-pronged, black-handled forks. It is true, the steel was as bright as silver; but what were we to do?
Pagina 17 - Card-tables, with green-baize tops, were set out by daylight, just as 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 maidservant had received her last directions ; and there we stood, dressed in our best, each with a candle-lighter in our hands, ready to dart at the candles as soon as the first knock came. Parties in Cranford were solemn festivities, making the ladies feel...
Pagina 47 - Of course I promised to come to dear Miss Matty as soon as I had ended my visit to Miss Pole; and the day after my arrival at Cranford I went to see her, much wondering what the house would be like without Miss Jenkyns, and rather dreading the changed aspect of things. Miss Matty began to cry as soon as she saw me. She was evidently nervous from having anticipated my call. I comforted her as well as I could; and I found the best consolation I could give was the honest praise that came from my heart...