There was but one room below the attic which Maggie had
"There are always silly and ignorant people to be met with everywhere," remarked Harry; "but the difference lies in the general character of the circle, which is not often so insipid and so puerile in Europe."
"It is the difference, I suppose, between a puppet-show and genteel comedy," said Elinor.
"Precisely, Miss Wyllys," said Mr. Ellsworth, smiling.
"We have very pretty puppets, though," observed Mrs. Creighton; "quite well-dressed, and sufficiently graceful, too; that is to say, the young lady puppets. As for the gentlemen, I shall not attempt to defend them, en masse, neither their grace nor their coats."
"You won't allow us to be either pretty or well-dressed?" said Mr. Stryker.
"Oh, everybody knows that Mr. Stryker's coat and bow are both unexceptionable."
"Why don't you go to work, good people, and improve the world, instead of finding fault with it?" said Mr. Wyllys, who was preparing for another game of chess with Mrs. Robert Hazlehurst.
"A labour of Hercules, sir!" exclaimed Mr. Stryker, shrugging his shoulders. "The position of a reformer is not sufficiently graceful to suit my fancy."
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genelmen to match; an’ then”— here Bob took up the
a little that Mr. Tulliver so peremptorily refused to receive
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bivouacked near us. They had no shelter during the rain.
youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and
I’n got no varmint to come over but them haggling women.
the flannel, you see. I carry flannel, ‘cause it’s
she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
“Hev a dog, Miss! — they’re better friends nor any
- a short time we were surrounded by a large group of the
- their food and firing; and he would eat nothing himself
- “No, thank you, Bob. We have a yard dog, and I mayn’t
- a childlike condition of dependence — as long as he was
- Into the disc of light, leaped, fantastic, the witch figure
- “There’s all sorts o’ genelmen here,” Bob went
- These narrow notions about debt, held by the old fashioned
- it, Miss; but it ‘ud be a pity, it would. I couldn’t
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without actually submerging his head, and to regain the
her cheek against it. How she wished he would stroke her
gingerbread; he’d smell a thief a good deal stronger
“Won’t you come in the evening some time, and see my
the catacombs. Max glanced at the white face of Helen Cumberly,
The sameness of the days was broken by few visitors. Uncles
like Maggie, though, as he usually said of himself, “his
to her husband’s desire to “do the right thing,”
up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
wi’ the lady lookin’ out of it wi’ eyes a bit like
