Her only intervals of rest and relaxation were the intervals passed occasionally in the day with old Mazey and the dogs, and the precious interval of the night during which she was secure from observation in the solitude of her
room. Thanks to the superfluity of bed-chambers at St.
That is the kind of thing young Enoch Robinson trembled to say to the guests who came into his
room when he was a young fellow in New York City, but he always ended by saying nothing.
The guest reclined, inert, upon a chair, while the
room, confused in speech as though it were an apartment in Babel, tried to discourse to him of its divers tenantry.
On either side of the passage, on the lower floor, were two
rooms. At the right-hand side, on entering by the front-door, there was a kitchen, with its outhouses attached.
"I left the ante-room and descended the central stairs to the vestibule and, as silently as possible, made my way to the little
room on the ground-floor where Daddy Jacques had been sleeping since the attack made at the pavilion.
Coming up presently to the front
room on the ground floor she took up some sewing, waiting for her lodgers to ring that she might take away the breakfast, which she meant to do herself, to discover what was the matter if possible.
Something was certainly to be concealed; her fancy, though it had trespassed lately once or twice, could not mislead her here; and what that something was, a short sentence of Miss Tilney's, as they followed the general at some distance downstairs, seemed to point out: "I was going to take you into what was my mother's
room -- the
room in which she died -- " were all her words; but few as they were, they conveyed pages of intelligence to Catherine.
So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking the dog in her arms followed the green girl through seven passages and up three flights of stairs until they came to a
room at the front of the Palace.
"Well then, come in," said Kitty, turning to Marya Nikolaevna, who had recovered herself, but noticing her husband's face of dismay, "or go on; go, and then come for me," she said, and went back into the
room.
In the big, cold, outside world people did not invite shaggy men to their homes, and this shaggy man of ours had slept more in hay-lofts and stables than in comfortable
rooms. When the others left the great hall he eyed the splendidly dressed servants of the Princess Ozma as if he expected to be ordered out; but one of them bowed before him as respectfully as if he had been a prince, and said:
She was glad, now, that she had put the child in the attic
room. Her idea at first had been to get her niece as far away as possible from herself, and at the same time place her where her childish heedlessness would not destroy valuable furnishings.
I ran into Strickland's
room and asked him whether he was ill and had been calling for me.
