On one side of the court were the rooms for the patients, on the other nice rooms and small apartments which were let to invalids or old ladies, and which opened on a garden, really a park of thirteen or fourteen acres.

Slowly, I emerged from these, and there, below me, I saw the stupendous plain that I had seen from my room in this house that stands upon the borders of the Silences.

Pepper and I kept one another company in the studythat great, old room of mine, where I read and work.

As he put it, there was no joke in sleeping in a room with a numerous family of healthy Irish in one corner and the pigsty in the other, while overhead a ragged colony of roosting fowls distributed their blessings impartially, and the whole place so full of peat smoke that it made a fellow sneeze his head off just to put it inside the doorway.

I remember quite well seeing a president (I have forgotten which one now) come into the big drawing-room at the old Cozzen's Hotel at West Point, with two or three gentlemen with him.

They stopped in the drawing-room on their way to the door, and Say said to me: "Eh bien, madame, je vous apporte une portefeuille et des felicitations."

Taking the kitchen lamp down from its hook, I made my way from cellar to cellar, and room to room; through pantry and coal-holealong passages, and into the hundred-and-one little blind alleys and hidden nooks that form the basement of the old house.

'But if I let you out of this room without having shown it me, then if there's something you don't want me to see, you'll tear it up or chuck it in the fire.

W. found Princess Bismarck not very femme du monde; she was preoccupied first with her dinner, then with her husband, for fear he should eat too much, or take cold going out of the warm dining-room into the evening air.

Opening the door upon the Hassiebrock front room, convertible from bed- to sitting-room by the mere erect-position-stand of the folding-bed, a wave of this tarry heat came flowing out, gaseous, sickening.

The house of the Quai d'Orsay was comfortable, well warmed, caloriferes and big fires in all the rooms, and whenever there was any sun it poured into the rooms from the garden.

It was an interesting group of men that stood around the little figure in the drawing-room after dinner.

You will both go to your rooms as usual.

From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud[10] of falling matterfragments of rotting stone.

Sometimes, darlin', just sittin' here in a room like this, with nono reason for bein' hereit's just like I" "Babe, Babe, you mustn't!" "Sittin' here, waiting for you to come and not carin' for nothing or nobody except that my boy's comin' home to meit's like I was in a dream, Blutch, and like I was going to wake up and find myself back in my mother's house, and" "Babe, you been sittin' at home alone too much.

Madame S. was sorry she couldn't set me up a cot in the wash-room, but would be compelled to let me have a double front-room over the bar.

Even her prized engraving of "Michael Angelo Buonarotti"contentedly regarding his just finished Moses, while a pope tiptoed into the room through a side-doorhad been removed, with all its splendors of red-plush and intricate gilt-framing.

"I say," remarked the latter, in rather a knowing manner, "if you want to see a lark, come to the reading-room before 'prep.'

When, at last, Mr. P. was conveyed, in a stifling hack, (the fare had risen, under the unusual circumstances, about one hundred and ten degrees,) to a stifling little room under the hot roof of an hotel exposed to the sun on every side, and had taken an extempore Russian bath while changing his linen, and had partaken of a hot dinner, he might have been excused for saying that he would like to cool off a little.

You say your wife never comes into your room during the hours of the night?" "She has never yet done so.

This term Kennedy and Jacobs sleep in the room above ours, and next to the big attic.

" "Very well, sir; the officer of the day is asleep in the room beyond the first door.

On the fourth day the poor man, very woe-begone, but now suffering no pain, was carried to the hospital, and the next day, as the campaign was about to begin, he was sent North, to leave room near the field for those who should be wounded in the coming engagement.

But the 356 barracks at the various military stations in Great Britain and Ireland give the soldiers much less breathing-room than the more recent regulations require.

They followed the girl into the hall, and into a room off the hall to which she led the way.