 | 1866 - 848 sider
...dinner, for which her father, as she imagined, coald have little appetite. When the Doctor went into his favourite seclusion, tired and heated and sad...radiant with firelight, tea set on the table, and Lncilla crying by the fire, in her new crape, the effect upon a temper by no means perfect may be imagined.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 sider
...favorite seclusion, tired and heated and sad, — for even on the day of his wife's funeral the favorite doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of, —...imagined. The unfortunate man threw both the windows open and rang the bell violently, and gave instant orders for the removal of the unnecessary fire and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 472 sider
...favorite seclusion, tired and heated and sad, — for even on the day of his wife's funeral the favorite doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of, —...a temper by no means perfect may be imagined. The tmfortunate man threw both the windows open and rang the bell violently, and gave instant orders for... | |
 | 1901 - 660 sider
...favorite seclusion, tired and heated and sad, — for even on the day of his wife's funeral the favorite doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of, —...imagined. The unfortunate man threw both the windows open and rang the bell violently, and gave instant orders for the removal of the unnecessary fire and... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 sider
...favorite seclusion, tired and heated and sad,— for even on the day of his wife's funeral the favorite doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of, —...imagined. The unfortunate man threw both the windows open and rang the bell violently, and gave instant orders for the removal of the unnecessary fire and... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1906 - 372 sider
...Marjoribanks always sat in the evenings, with the idea that it would be a " comfort " to him ; aud, for the same reason, she had ordered tea to be served...the solitude of his library apart from everybody; aud when he found it radiant with firelight, tea set on the table, and Lucilla crying by the fire,... | |
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... doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of, — the very heaviness of his thoughts gave warmth to his indignation. He had longed for the quiet and the coolness and the solitude of his library, apart from everybody; and when he found it radiant... 