Selections from Bracebridge HallHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1910 - 121 oldal |
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28. oldal
... length one of the company was called upon who had the most unpromising physiognomy for a story- teller that ever I had seen . He was a thin , pale , weazen- faced man , extremely nervous , who had sat at one cor- ner of the table ...
... length one of the company was called upon who had the most unpromising physiognomy for a story- teller that ever I had seen . He was a thin , pale , weazen- faced man , extremely nervous , who had sat at one cor- ner of the table ...
31. oldal
... length were summoned away by a vigilant vinegar - faced mother , and I had nothing further from without to amuse me . What was I to do to pass away the long - lived day ? I was sadly nervous and lonely ; and every thing about an inn ...
... length were summoned away by a vigilant vinegar - faced mother , and I had nothing further from without to amuse me . What was I to do to pass away the long - lived day ? I was sadly nervous and lonely ; and every thing about an inn ...
32. oldal
... length the stillness of the house was interrupted by the ringing of a bell . Shortly after I heard the voice of a waiter at the bar : " The stout gentleman in No. 13 , wants his breakfast . Tea and bread and butter , with ham and eggs ...
... length the stillness of the house was interrupted by the ringing of a bell . Shortly after I heard the voice of a waiter at the bar : " The stout gentleman in No. 13 , wants his breakfast . Tea and bread and butter , with ham and eggs ...
37. oldal
... length get a view of his person ; but no he had din- ner served in his own room . What could be the mean- ing of this solitude and mystery ? He could not be a radical ; there was something too aristocratical in thus keeping himself ...
... length get a view of his person ; but no he had din- ner served in his own room . What could be the mean- ing of this solitude and mystery ? He could not be a radical ; there was something too aristocratical in thus keeping himself ...
39. oldal
... and the creaking footsteps of this myste- rious being . His steps grew fainter and fainter , and at length died away . I could bear it no longer . I was wound up to the desperation of a hero of romance THE STOUT GENTLEMAN 39.
... and the creaking footsteps of this myste- rious being . His steps grew fainter and fainter , and at length died away . I could bear it no longer . I was wound up to the desperation of a hero of romance THE STOUT GENTLEMAN 39.
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52. oldal - UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE' UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
25. oldal - He gradually fell asleep bolt upright in his chair, with the empty glass standing before him ; and the candle seemed to fall asleep too, for the wick grew long, and black, and cabbaged at the end, and dimmed the little light that remained in the chamber. The gloom that now prevailed was contagious. Around hung the shapeless, and almost spectral, box-coats of departed travellers, long since buried in deep sleep.
22. oldal - She'd have no such doings in her house, she'd warrant! If gentlemen did spend money freely, it was no rule. She'd have no servant maids of hers treated in that way, when they were about their work, that's what she wouldn't!" As I hate squabbles, particularly with women, and above all with pretty women, I slunk back into my room, and partly closed the door; but my curiosity was too much excited not to listen. The landlady marched intrepidly to the enemy's citadel, and entered it with a storm. The...
20. oldal - I had not made many turns about the travelers'-room, when there was another ringing. Shortly afterwards there was a stir and an inquest about the house. The stout gentleman wanted the Times or the Chronicle newspaper. I set him down, therefore, for a Whig; or rather, from his being so absolute and lordly where he had a chance, I suspected him of being a Radical. Hunt, I had heard, was a large man; "who knows," thought I, "but it is Hunt himself!
viii. oldal - Mix well, and while stirring, hum o'er, as a spell, The fine old English Gentleman, simmer it well, Sweeten just to your own private liking, then strain That only the finest and clearest remain, Let it stand out of doors till a soul it...
14. oldal - IT was a rainy Sunday, in the gloomy month of November. I had been detained, in the course of a journey, by a slight indisposition, from which I was recovering ; but I was still feverish, and was obliged to keep within doors all day, in an inn of the small town of Derby. A wet Sunday in a country inn ! — whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements ; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy...
22. oldal - I was more than ever perplexed what to make of this unaccountable personage, who could put a good-natured chambermaid in a passion, and send away a termagant landlady in smiles. He could not be so old, nor cross, nor ugly either.
24. oldal - Ethelinda, and a dozen other fine names, changing the name every time, and chuckling amazingly at their own waggery. My mind, however, had become completely engrossed by the stout gentleman. He had kept my fancy in chase during a long day, and it was not now to be diverted from the scent. The evening gradually wore away. The travelers read the papers two or three times over.
22. oldal - This unknown personage could not be an old gentleman; for old gentlemen are not apt to be so obstreperous to chamber-maids. He could not be a young gentleman; for young gentlemen are not apt to inspire such indignation. He must be a middle-aged man, and confounded ugly into the bargain, or the girl would not have taken the matter in such terrible dudgeon. I confess I was sorely puzzled. In a few minutes I heard the voice of my landlady. I caught a glance of her as she came tramping up-stairs,—...
23. oldal - I hoped the stout gentleman might dine in the travelers'-room, and that I might at length get a view of his person ; but no — he had dinner served in his own room. What could be the meaning of this solitude and mystery ? He could not be a radical ; there was something too aristocratical in thus keeping himself apart from the rest of the world, and condemning himself to his own dull company throughout a rainy day. And then, too, he lived too well for a discontented politician. He seemed to expatiate...