I fancy she tried taking lodgers" "Yes, she did.

"'Yeyeyes, sir,' ses the lodger, who was 'arf choked.

He lost three lodgers the same day.

Now, whether our great distraction of mind gave us a haggard and sickly aspect, or whether 'twas merely the suspicion and hardness of heart bred in all people by terror, I cannot tell; but no one would take us in, some saying flatly they would receive no lodgers they did not know, and know to be sound.

"'You'll wake your lodger up if you ain't careful, making that noise,' he ses.

' "He opened the door and kicked the lodger out.

Without thought, and imagining that 'twas her presence which irritated the lodger, she beat a hasty retreat to her room upstairs, even as Adam Lambert finally succeeded in forcing Sir Marmaduke down on his knees, not ceasing to repeat the while: "Her pardon ... beg her pardon, my fine prince ... lick the dust in an English cottage, thou foreign devil ... or, by God, I will kill thee! ...

She therefore was silent and 'Lizebeth could get nothing more out of her concerning her lodgers.

He pulled the lodger up like a flash, and, telling Peter to take hold of the other side of him, they set off arter Sam.

'You'll be so kind,' she said, looking her fellow-lodger in the eyes, 'as not to set the house on fire.'

That quality of other-worldliness which at once scared and fascinated the lodgers in The Passing of the Third Floor Back is present in all Forbes-Robertson's acting.

As we advance in our practice with the aquarium we may venture to introduce more delicate lodgers.

You see, she did not know the lodger.

Even now she had shuffled back into her kitchen, leaving her ill-humored lodger to puff away at the malodorous weed as he chose.

In one of the chairs lolled the mysterious lodger, whom a strange Fate in a perverse mood seemed to have wafted to this isolated little cottage on the outskirts of the loneliest village in Thanet.

So Mrs. Pownceby, meeting on the stairs Her second-floor lodger, me, bound citywards, Told of her sister's death, doing her best To match her face's colour with the news: While I in listening made a running gloss Beneath her speech of all she left unsaid.

The landlord of the hotel where the master lodged, refused to say anything on the subject, being unwilling to offend his lodger.

Miss Rodney, on that same day, was able to offer her landlady a new lodger.

On this occasion some robberies were committed, and refractories escaped: it is even said that hard-hearted landlords wished to prevent their lodgers from departingan object in which the proprietors were not very successful.

" "Oh, you would!" remarked the lodger.

I could hear the landlady upstairs bitterly reproaching a lodger who could not pay.

The servant became angry and shook the lodger violently.

'You haven't the right to do it,' shouted the lodger.

For the last fortnight, the landlady had ceased to supply her lodger with provisions, and he had not yet thought of demanding an explanation.

She stood upon her rank, did not fail to tell her lodgers that she was "a gentlewoman," and was mighty sharp with Becky, the maid, and Carrie, her youngest child.