 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - Authors, English - 1893 - 352 pages
...she says, softly (she is fifty-three, and is spending the day with her old love, Mr. Holbrook) ; " I only hope it is not improper — so many pleasant things are." Cranford is described by Lord Houghton as the purest piece of humouristic description that has been... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1897 - 522 pages
...good peas went away almost untouched. " It ia very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty, softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....Pole, looking round the room. " And how dusty they are !" "Yes! " said Miss Pole, " he's a great reader ; but I am afraid he has got into very uncouth habits... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1898 - 344 pages
...into the pipe, and then we withdrew. 1 It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor/ said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....he has ! ' said Miss Pole, looking round the room. f And how dusty they are ! J ( I think it must be like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms/ said Miss... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Bookbinding - 1898 - 346 pages
...into the pipe; and then we withdrew. " It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor/' said Miss Matty, softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....improper; so many pleasant things are!" "What a number of lnwks he has!" said Miss Pole, looking round the room. "And how dusty they are!" "I think it must be... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 432 pages
...into the pipe, and then we withdrew. "It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms," said Miss Matty. " What a superior man your cousin must be ! " "Yes!" said Miss Pole, "he's a great reader; but... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...into the pipe, and then we withdrew. "It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms," said Miss Matty. " What a superior man your cousin must be!" " Yes!" said Miss Pole, " he's a great reader; but... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - England - 1905 - 280 pages
...into the pipe, and then we withdrew. "It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the countinghouse....like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms," said Miss Matty. " What a superior man your cousin must be!" "Yes!" said Miss Pole, "he's a great reader; but... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...into the pipe, and then we withdrew. " It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms," said Miss Matty. " What a superior man your cousin must be ! " "Yes," said Miss Pole, "he's a great reader; but... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1906 - 600 pages
...into the pipe, and then we withdrew. " It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house....like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms," said Miss Matty. " What a superior man your cousin must be ! " " Yes ! " said Miss Pole, " he's a great reader... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1906 - 596 pages
...with a bachelor," said Miss 40 Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house, i / / " I only hope it is not improper ; so many pleasant...like one of the great Dr. Johnson's rooms," said Miss Matty. " What a superior man your cousin must be ! " " Yes ! " said Miss Pole, " he's a great reader... | |
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It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor,' said Miss Matty softly, as we settled ourselves in the counting-house. 'I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are! 
