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...uty, even if it sows dissensions in fami lies. I understand you to be now consulting me profession ally as to your interests? You are so? I reply, t... ... legs of beef and mutton. Mere animal satisfaction!” “This is our friend’s consulting room (or would be, if he ever prescribed), his sanctum, his stud... ...oned, and see him, and try if it were possible to avert the worst. Without consulting Mr. Vholes on this point, I took my guardian aside to propose it... ...an will be alone together com paring forefingers. It is likely that these occupations are irreconcilable with home enjoyment, but it is certain that ...

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...with modern life! Now, tell me about yourself. What are your interests and occupations? I should imagine that you were a per- son with very strong int... ... returned. “You are to take the floor with Miss Allan,” Hewet con- tinued, consulting a sheet of pencilled notes. Pepper stopped and began a discourse... ...ings, for after three weeks of such intimacy and inten- sity all the usual occupations were unbearably flat and beside the point. The least intolerabl... ...s about great storms, and 357 Virginia Woolf produced in many cases their occupations for the evening. The chess-board was brought out, and Mr. Ellio...

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...e should be of rushes, and how knowingly (with a sheaf and a bottomless chair at our back) we should lounge on bridges, looking over at osier-beds! Am... ...etimes on tramp again. Bricklayers often tramp, in twos and threes, lying by night at their ‘lodges,’ which are scattered all over the country. Brickl... ...ring Satur- day evening towards eight of the clock, when with astonish- Charles Dickens 226 ment I beheld an old old man and an old old woman in it, ... ...hat partition that we took down, or in that other partition that we moved, or in the stove that was given us for the waiting-room, or in our nightly c...

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...eeing this, the inquisitive youths manifested with rustic freedom their contempt for such paltry sport, and, after a dissertation among themselves upo... ...on.” 127 Dumas “When did it take place?” “A month back.” “Oh! then there is no time lost. Aramis cannot yet have wanted me. But how is it, Bazin, you... ...d D’Artagnan, phleg- matically, “I claim the protection of no man. His majesty Charles II., to whom I have had the honor of rendering some services — ... ...cham- ber, and who, the Prince de Conde at their head, all disap- peared at the simple gesture. Raoul, after a last look cast at the comte, followed M... ...young prince, the king’s brother. The conference lasted an hour; after which the doors of the chamber were thrown open to the courtiers, who resumed t... ... beyond doubt.” “And I might fairly keep for my own family, which is so needy, a good fortune, — the whole, even, of which I have earned?” “I see no i... ...y country-house of Vaux when the news reached me; and the affair seemed so pressing that I left at once.” “Y ou left V aux this evening, monsieur?” “A...

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...horse-racing, with now and then the alterna- tion of a desperate duel. The occupations which he followed encroached, in their opinion, upon the articl... ...minating height to which a supposed insight into futurity, by the power of consulting abstract influences and conjunctions, had exalted them over the ... ...i- tutes human life. We observe the aged, the infirm, and those engaged in occupations of immediate hazard, trembling as it were upon the very brink o... ... were a gallant company. Ballad of Johnnie Armstrong. WITHOUT NOTICING the occupations of an intervening day or two, which, as they consisted of the o... ...lossin was this morning engaged with a person, whom he was in the habit of consulting in such matters, concerning some projected repairs, and a large ...

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...articu lar trade or calling, though his pursuits were diversified and his occupations numerous. He collected the rents of whole colonies of filthy st... ... pos sible complexion, was at that moment going round the town in a cart, consulting the miniature of a lady. It now only remained that Mr Slum’s com... ...ts a little shaken by cool daylight and the return to every day duties and occupations, went to meet Barbara and her mother at the appointed place. An... ...sed her eyes, so surely—whisk, rattle, fizz—there was the single gentleman consulting his watch by a flame of fire, and letting the sparks fall down a... ...e felt a tear upon his face. CHAPTER 54 THE BACHELOR, AMONG HIS various occupations, found in the old church a constant source of interest and amus...

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...tood thoughtful. “What a woman!” said the duke in a glance at his brother, consulting him by his eye, and leading him to the window. “I shall stay in ... ...ne dé Medici. “Maitre Ambroise, I will not permit it.” The physicians were consulting together; but Catherine spoke in so loud a voice that her words ... ...II. had ended his. The queen-mother kept close watch upon her son. All the occupations of his personal life, outside of politics, were re- ported to h...

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...oss the room, where the coach was dis- posing the furniture for the scene, consulting the stage directions in his book: “Here the kitchen table, here ... ...ed a boyish pleasure in certain un- essential though cherished objects and occupations, that he indulged extravagantly and to the neglect of things, n... ...them together to feel that they were his own. 273 Frank Norris He put off consulting a doctor from day to day, alleging that he had not the time. But...

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...d only in time for dinner. Since 1832, he had substituted for his business occupations a daily visit to his father-in-law, a promenade about the town,... ...r Grevin,” continued Madame Beauvisage, “she would not marry without first consulting him. If you have any pro- posals to make, go and see my father.”... ...vice of assisting me in the dilemma I mentioned just now. Unfortunately in consulting a physician we naturally want to see him and tell him our sympto...

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...ching thing to hear the mind reverting to the Charles Dickens 41 ordinary occupations and pursuits of health, when the body lies before you weak and ... ...emainder, which he instantaneously did. ‘And now, Sammy,’ said Mr. Weller, consulting a large double faced silver watch that hung at the end of the co... ... Dubbley. ‘I’m wery much obliged to you, old gen’l’m’n,’ replied Sam, ‘for consulting my conwenience, and I’m still more obliged to the other gen’l’m’...

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... he had said to his employer,—’I don’t think it promises!’ Among his first occupations the pursuit of that orphan wanted by Mrs Boffin held a conspicu... ...ece, sir?’ ‘T o hide it?’ asked Mr Boffin. ‘Why , no, sir,’ replied W egg, consulting the text, ‘it appears to have been done by accident. Oh! This ne... ...h,’ said Bella, excusing and explaining herself in a pretty shy way; ‘I am consulting you.’ ‘I noticed that sadness. I hope it may not,’ said the Secr... ...away?’ ‘My dear Mortimer, you know the absorbing nature of my professional occupations; I really have not had leisure to think about it.’ ‘Have you as... ...inly Not to the second. Respecting the quiet tea, my dear, why you see the occupations of the day are some- times a little wearing; and if there’s not... ...volume entitled The Complete British Family Housewife, which she would sit consulting, with her elbows on the table and her temples on her hands, like...

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...the kind. ‘I did not like it at first,’ said Bessie, ‘but I have plenty of occupations now, besides all these companions that I’ve made for myself, or... ...struck with his sister Phyllis’s family that he sincerely believed himself consulting the girl’s best interests. He was by no means an irreligious or ...

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...s, more by way of soliloquy than any- thing else, for she never thought of consulting her hus- band. ‘And the two daughters are delightful. We must ha... ...f the house were assembled in the drawing-room engaged in their ordi- nary occupations. Mr. Gobler and Mrs. Bloss were sitting at a small card-table n...

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... commanding general shall do such a thing upon my re- sponsibility without consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FRO... ...tice. The civil war, which has so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed th...

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...m getting spoiled with all this good society. On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs be- fore seven; and they kept me in Apia till past te... ...ioned it yesterday. I ought to say how much we all like the Jersey party. My boy Henry was enraptured with the manners of the Tawaitai Sili (chief lad...

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...y kind of you to make such an offer,” he said. “If I am not mistaken, your occupations are such as to make your time precious. You are in—a— as we say... ...ree years. Does she take such a step at half an hour’s notice, and without consulting me?” “She consulted me, dear mother, five minutes since,” said V... ...n effort to combat it; he tried to interest himself and to take up his old occupations. But they appeared unreal to him; do what he would he somehow c...

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...from Trantridge sought double delights at the inns on that account. Tess’s occupations made her late in setting out, so that her comrades reached the ... ...he issue of such a tendency, he decided to hold aloof for the present from occupations in which they would be mutually engaged. As yet the harm done w... ... A license will be quieter for us, and I have decided on a license without consulting you. So if you go to church on Sunday morning you will not hear ...

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...oked out fresh linen, saw to the washing, and laid in provisions with- out consulting anybody. She decided everything that went on in the house, and t... ...ery of potato-spirit, and the other was a wool-washer; each combined these occupations with his official work, and in this way two valuable industries...

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...esk, and work table, and box of water colours; the second was the Doctor’s consulting room, used also as the dining room; the third, changingly speck... ...at would bear considerable knock ing on the head, and retained to his own occupations. A disturbed and doleful mind he brought to bear upon them, and... ...at possibility she would have waited out the day, seven days a week. These occupations brought her round to the December month, wherein her father wal...

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...immediate hasty impulse; I think I am. My greatest danger would lie in her consulting Mrs. Fraser, and I at a distance unable to help my own cause. A ... ...ving sorrow. Employment, even mel- ancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful. She had so much to do, that not even the hor- rib... ...ct her thoughts to other subjects, and revive some in- terest in the usual occupations; but whenever Lady Bertram was fixed on the event, she could se...