Thackeray writes as a cultured, ideal, old gentleman may be imagined to talk to the young people, while he sits in his comfortable armchair in a corner by the fireplace.

"And Brother Paul has just been saying" "What is it, what is it?" The Father Superior spoke a little sharply, and himself sat down in the wooden armchair he before had placed for his white guest.

At this exemplary old lady Paul would sit staring in his little armchair by the fire for any length of time.

Over went the nearest armchair, down from the wall with a clatter came a rack of books, and this way and that swayed the forms of the maskers and the two roommates.

On a gaudy modern Rabat carpet stood gilt armchairs of florid design and a table bearing a commercial bronze of the "art goods" variety.

Facing them, on a rough dais about three feet high and with two steps leading up to it, stood a large and deep carved oaken armchair.

Stone walls and floor, tombstone mantlepieces (mixed Gothic), really good Persian rugs, and the very most carved, brand new gilt Louis Philippe suite of furniture, helped out by mammoth armchairs and sofa, covered in gold brocade.

So it was the lesser Tutt who wrung the hand of Payson Clifford and gave him the leathern armchair by the window.

" Unaware of these unflattering comments, Markham strolled out of doors and into a lonely armchair on the terrace, and smoked in solitary dignity.

There was something wan and wistful in his look, and he had a strange, old-fashioned, thoughtful way of sitting brooding in his miniature armchair.

" Great Taylor sank into a broken armchair, her huge calloused hands rested in her lap, wrists crossed, palms turned upward, fingers stiffly curled.

Mrs. Parker, Mr. Downey, Mr. Bruce, myself, and Miss La Neige sat in that order in the very narrow and uncomfortable little armchairs used by the students during lectures.

Some gentleman enthroned in the authority of an official armchair said 'No,' and there was an end of it.

There is the small writing-table, and there is the plain armchair in which he sat by it and worked out those creations of fancy which have excited such interest through the world.

Awed by the namewas there not a Dawnay-Devenish occupying a plump armchair in the Colonial Office at the time?the Consul parted with five hundred dollars (Mex.).

" He pushed aside the ponderous armchair which stood beside him at the head of the table.

The seat which the sisters had chosen, because it was just a quiet little corner for two, was a nook scooped out, as it were, in a jut of granite; hollowed in behind and perpendicularly to a height above their heads, and embracing a mossy little flat below, so that it seemed like a great solid armchair into which two could get together, and a third could not possibly intrude.

Here she maintains that only the children of the comparatively poor ride upon their fathers' walking-sticks or construct coaches of chairs, that this "is not a proof of imagination but of an unsatisfied desire," and that rich children who own ponies and who drive out in motor-cars "would be astonished to see the delight of children who imagine themselves to be drawn along by stationary armchairs.

"And my line of business demands luxurious fittings," remarked the American, as he installed Allerdyke in a sybaritic armchair and handed him a box of big cigars of a famous brand.

There were sweet old curtains, and a long sofa in front of the fireplace instead of the traditional armchairs.

I thought I'd like to call up Centraljust to be sure I could make the thing go What is the matter, Pa-pah?" He dropped into a wadded armchair and motioned Sybilla to a seat opposite.

The room she showed us into was the librarythree walls lined with books, mostly with German titlesa big cupboard in one corner, reaching from floor to ceilinga big desk by the windowthree armchairs and a stool.

Virginia entered a small log room, passed through it immediately to a larger papered room, and sat down in a musty red armchair.

"The Apache," which had not yet found a purchaser, stood on one easel, and from it the traveling rug hung to the other, concealing all unsightly things, and yesterday Mimo had bought from the Tottenham Court Road a cheap basket armchair with bright cretonne cushions.

The fire-light shone on the chintz armchairs, and Boxer lay asleep on the black horse-hair rug.