We will let the curtains fall Between us and the storm; Wheel the sofa up to the hearth, Where the fire is glowing warm.

After her mistress had gone to bed in the inner chamber, the woman used to lock the outer door softly and then draw a short, light sofa across it; on this she lay as best she might.

Mary, in addition to feeling repentant over her outbreak just before Paula came in, experienced a sort of gratitude to him for being able to sit squarely facing the sofa, untroubled by the absent thoughtful face and the figure a little languorously disposed that confronted him.

At the window stood a sofa of old maroon leather, its dark hue throwing out in strong relief two figures who sat upon it.

The good-natured woman suggests a sofa in one of the studios, and then quietly prepares to go to bed.

The pair took the sofa.

Once more a gleam of intelligence lighted up the plain but expressive features of the young person; she was absent much longer this time, and when she returned, she brought, to our dismay, a large cushion and a pillow, and began to prepare the sofa for the nap that she now saw clearly was the thing the dumb gentleman wanted.

If you feel like lying down why not use the sofa in my room?

And it was only when, after every resource had been exhausted, the good man shook his head, and to her questions, whether there was hope, first was silent, and then answered with a gentle No! that she left the apartment, and had scarcely entered the sitting-room, when she fell fainting, with her face upon the carpet, unable to reach the sofa.

Dakie Thayne was there; he sat holding some gold-colored wool for Mrs. Holabird to wind; she was giving herself the luxury of some pretty knitting,making a bright little sofa affghan.

As he neared the sofa the King exclaimed, "Good evening, sir.

Hartfield seated himself nearer the sofa, and nearer the lamp.

Why, he would need a whole sofa to hold him.

George approached the sofa on which the lady was seated before she had time to conceal the traces of her sorrow, and in a voice softened by emotion, he took her hand gently as he said, "What can have occasioned this distress to Miss Howell.

As I was passing the sofa, where the two men were sitting, Augustus seized hold of my dress.

And now put on your slippers, push the sofa up to the fire, and take your nap, and I'll go and see how the case really stands.

Not taking any chances, for my own use I reserved a green leather sofa in the legation itself.

She lent it to Miss Leslie, who saw a large, square, old-fashioned red sofa covered with muslin (which she, afterward found in the next country-house she visited).

" "Fancy sharing the same sofa," she laughed, "with a rival of princes!

I sing the sofa!

"Now, sir!" answered Vavasour, springing off the sofa, his whole pent-up wrath exploding in hissing steam, the moment the safety-valve was lifted.

You are a great actress, but you could not control the dew which sprang out on your forehead, or the beating of your heart when I touched the sofa, so I knew: I had been watching you for that.

To General J-n, the senior of the party, is assigned the only bed; an Italian officer occupies a sofa; while General W., Captain G., and ourself are ranged, "all in a row," on bags of straw placed upon the floor.

After a short interval, a young and lovely girl appeared, accompanied by a groom and butler, who bore between them a small sofa, on which Marmaduke was lifted and gently carried to the house.

You were calling the sofa the divinest of all creatures, I suppose, or perhaps asking thethe piano to put on its shoes andelope with you.