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Page 216 - Then Gorin's not Kamensky," said Nikolai in calm and disagreeable triumph. "Kamensky's almost blind. I've never seen him without his spectacles. He's helpless without them." "No, Grandfather," Laura said, "he isn't." He looked at her out of the corner of his eye as if they were both Orientals and should not be speaking so directly. "Don't you remember that the other day I tried on Monsieur Kamensky's spectacles?
Page 149 - ... pavement — would occasionally sneak into the shop of Cooney, and, bowing blandly, mount the creaking stairs that led to his patient's apartment, turning the handle softly, and coming suddenly upon the lodger, and starting him so, that his pulse would be unreliable for some minutes ; for Jennings was averse to strangers, and trembled whenever there was a knock at his door. This might have been the result of a low state of health, though Cooney assigned it to other causes.
Page 262 - ... his arm, and listened to his nonsense apparently not ill-pleased. Sir Charles was not a bit jealous; he mounted a tremendous cigar, and stared at the handsome young couple as they strolled along the paths, and expressed his opinion to Codlington that they were
Page 70 - How could ho have expected her to leave her friends to sit up with him in his close stuffy room ? It was monstrous to imagine himself slighted. Besides, had he not Ledbitter with him all the while— Ledbitter, who knew his ways and had been with him so long ? How utterly absurd it was to leave town at such a time ! The season scarcely commenced ; London full. What would people say ? Would not the world look...
Page 136 - The boon-companions even knew something about Molloy's lodger ; for happening to prolong an argument opposite their brother-member's doorstep one night, they were suddenly alarmed by the white form of an enraged female appearing at the open first-floor window, and were edified by a libellous harangue from Mrs. Bentley, who was not in the best of tempers, and who threatened to give the entire body in charge if they didn't move on that very instant, — a set of idle tipsy brawlers ! It was one of...
Page 232 - For conceited, stuckup, supercilious, and haughty as she was accustomed to designate Horace a dozen times a-day, the good simple creature was in her heart greatly proud of her lodger, and not a little afraid of him. He was altogether different from any one she had ever seen. As to comparing him with the young men who lodged opposite, or next door, it was ridiculous. The young man at Mrs. Pellett's was polite to her when he met her...
Page 156 - Ledbitter than with any one else. He seemed to go through life making less noise than other people, and appeared to glide through existence as it were oleaginously and without a hitch. It was strange that the big lodger at Cooney's should consider him fearful-looking, as he undoubtedly did, and that he should see any thing peculiarly unpleasant in the mouth of Ledbitter, any thing coldly cruel in the eyes of Ledbitter, any thing suggestive of cunning and remorselessness in Ledbitter's general air...
Page 2 - ... as they called it, and picking up very bad characters for themselves in many cases. Horace, who now gave himself all the airs of an established literary man, said it was nothing of the kind ; that she knew nothing about it ; that there was no class so...
Page 46 - Cooney's mouth was large and cruel, ugly enough when closed, but a terrible feature to contemplate when distended by an evil grin, on which occasions it would display a half-dozen or so of such enormous fangs that one involuntarily wondered if Cooney had been born with the regular dental allowance, and if so, where the remainder had found room. It was probably a knowledge of his extreme ugliness that induced Cooney to neglect those ablutionary exercises which would have only served to expose his...
Page 87 - no gentleman" to force himself into a house where he wasn't welcome. My lady heeded her not, hut continued the pleasant task of self-adornment with a heightened colour and a heaving chest. From her window she could see the large yard of the stables, and before she had thoroughly finished arraying herself, Atherton and his companion drove into the yard. He drove a light springy dog-cart, with a long-backed bay full of blood. An elaborately-embroidered over-coat sheltered Atherton from the cold wind...