... and the
trace of a tear glistened on her thin cheek.
The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest fraction of the day at
Lowood: the bit of bread, the draught of coffee swallowed ... among the readers I observed my acquaintance of the
verandah: at the commencement of the lesson, her place had been at the top
of the class, but for some error of pronunciation, or s...
... instant, he forgot the agony of his wound, and thought only of flight.
Flight! He could scarcely stand: and if he were in full possession of all the
best powers of his slight and youthful frame, ... expressive of the most
unmitigated horror.
’I tossed off the clothes,’ said Giles, throwing away the table-cloth, and
looking very hard at the cook and housemaid, ‘got softly out o...
... boundaries of their daily walks; even they, with the hand of death
upon them, have been known to yearn at last for one short glimpse of
Nature’s face; and, carried far from the scenes of their ... covered with fresh turf and moss: beneath which, the old people of
the village lay at rest. Oliver often wandered here; and, thinking of the
wretched grave in which his mother lay, w...
... excessive disgust. ‘Here! Cut me off
a piece of that pie, one of you boys, to take the taste of that out of my mouth,
or it’ll choke me dead.’
’Don’t be out of temper, my dear,’ urged Fagin, ... little about her,
of the good gentleman’s having gone down in the world of late: for a great
scarcity of furniture, and total absence of comfort, together with the
disappearance...
... useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to
their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their
treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know ... festoons and
falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed
was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a
blush of pink...
... thought, equally attractive. She boasted of
beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs
they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of
French ... plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a
wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most
enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had of...
... paces off, to warm
himself; for nobody did he see but a big charity-boy, sitting on a post in
front of the house, eating a slice of bread and butter: which he cut into
wedges, the size of his ... bewailing the loss of her cloak (which
the undertaker had taken off), to pay him any attention; so they threw a can
of cold water over him; and when he came to, saw him safely out of...
... emotion of all the
mothers in the town. As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult
expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour
and full command of nerve ... to banquet upon a small joint of mutton—a pound and a half of
the worst end of the neck—when Charlotte being called out of the way, there
ensued a brief interval of time,...
... each end,
on each of which burnt a pair of candles, and seated all round on benches, a
congregation of girls of every age, from nine or ten to twenty. Seen by the
dim light of the dips, their ... word of command -
an odour far from inviting. I saw a universal manifestation of discontent
when the fumes of the repast met the nostrils of those destined to swallow it;
from...
... performances was the enactment of
the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered
with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth
form, and ... forward!"
Of my own accord I could not have stirred; I was paralysed: but the two
great girls who sit on each side of me, set me on my legs and pushed me
third half the cont...