Tried your house on the 'phone and your secretary told me he thought you'd gone to a bookshop called the Moonlight--" Caroline turned to him irritably.
Yet the shadows were still purple in her russet hair; her mouth hinted yet of kisses, as did the profile that came sometimes between his eyes and a row of books, when it was twilight in the bookshop where the crimson lamp presided no more.
In fact, within a year after Caroline's catastrophic visit to the bookshop the only thing in it that preserved any semblance of being up to date was Miss Masters.
I worked for two years in a second-hand bookshop as a bibliographical expert; and before that I stood behind the counter most of my time.
The average collector or proprietor of an old bookshop is a canny, suspicious individual who must accept you as a friend before he will uncover his choicest treasures.
Needless to say, he was at Bramble's Bookshop on the minute, vastly perturbed and eager for enlightenment.
He was to go to Bramble's Bookshop at half-past four, and proceed at once to the workshop of M.
Of a consequence, I again sought the bookshop and stifling my timidity, I demanded such volumes as might set me most agreeably to my task.
However, these duties being done and the afternoon having not yet declined, do you not seek a bookshop to regale yourself?
He was hard up and almost starving for a long time after he came to London," explained Paul, "then he got a post in a second-hand bookshop kept by a man called Garner in the Minories.
A flag floated proudly over the top of the building, and above the principal doorway stood the announcement, no less true than sensational, "The Cheapest Bookshop in the World.
Lackington at length quitted Chiswell Street, and took the enormous building at the corner of Finsbury Square, which was styled "The Temple of the Muses," and to which the public were invited as the cheapest bookshop in the world.
I used to call in at the bookshop for a chat now and then with Madame and Mademoiselle Carpentier, while a crowd of officers came in and out.
I passed the bookshop where Mademoiselle was locking up the door of this house which had escaped by greater luck than its neighbors.
His only consolation was that twenty minutes after he had left the bookshop he saw a taxi drive up (he was then sitting gloomily at his bedroom window) and Titania enter it and drive away.
I tell you, your Haunted Bookshop is haunted by something worse than the ghost of Thomas Carlyle.
He had been tied down to the bookshop so long that a day's excursion seemed too good to be true.
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives.
He turned into Hazlitt Street and so back onto Gissing, noticing now that the Haunted Bookshop lights were off.
I ought to be able to get a room somewhere along that street, where I can watch that bookshop without being seen, and find out what's haunting it.
The idea was still sparkling in his mind when he saw Titania and Mrs. Mifflin emerge from the bookshop and pass briskly in front of the lunchroom.
He could see the lighted windows of the Haunted Bookshop quite plainly, but he could not think of any adequate excuse for going over there.
There was a privy exhilaration in his plan of putting thebookshop under an unsuspected surveillance, and he had the emotion of one walking on the frontiers of adventure.
He determined to get into the bookshop itself, and burst open its sinister secret.
Over Bemerton's, certainly, because it's a bookshop story.
What right had I to shirk in a quiet bookshop when so many men were suffering and dying through no fault of their own?
Certainly it was grotesque to imagine melodrama hanging about a second-hand bookshop in Brooklyn.
Imagine leaving this adorable bookshop to spend Sunday in Larchmont.
A suicide--ten to one--implicates your bosom friend, or else the little man at the bookshop cut him down.
Loitered at a dirty little Fleet Street bookshop where Paul de Koch's The Lady with the Three Pairs of Stays was displayed prominently beside a picture of Oscar Wilde.
From old Dan Whitner, who keeps a bookshopback on Walton place.
Here was no mystery; onebookshop selling a book to another.
I think her father was a tutor or journalist of some kind, but he is dead; and her grandfather keeps a second-hand bookshop in the King's Road close by.
When I came out of my office, or rather from the bookshop where I had bought Jean Sbogar, I made haste to the place des Italiens.
As I left the office, I entered a bookshop and asked for a novel by Nodier.
NEW PATHS Some months since three friends met together in an old-fashioned bookshop on the venerable Calle del Olivo--a writer, a printer, and myself.
He discovered The Poetry Bookshop in Devonshire Street and went there for the evening readings.
But I do not want to attack her too hardly, as he is the patroness of men of letters, and serves as a signboard to the bookshop of that good M.
The King's Library is but an old bookshop in comparison with mine--that is, if you do not consider the number of books only and the quantity of blackened paper.
I be lucky enough to see again the cookshop of the Queen Pédauque and the bookshop of M.
Outside Poole's bookshopthere was, of course, Mr. Mockridge.
The little bookshop hung, with its misty shelves about the three men.
It would not be the thing for some one in a bookshop to go and call on the parents of any one who could afford Crumpet and Miss Jackson, but the thought of London, the very name of it, sent his blood tingling to his face.
One strange thing was the number of people that came into the bookshop with no intention whatever of having anything to do with the books.
To thebookshop itself the fog made very little difference.
And since I came up to London," he went on, "the whole of my time has been spent either in the bookshop or the boarding-house.
He lived once more through that night on the farm--perhaps at that moment he felt suddenly his loneliness, here in this huge and tempestuous London, here in this dark bookshop with so many people going in or out.
He was leading his proper life in those days at Dawson's when they were beating him at home and hating him at school, and it was that old bookshop and the queer people he met in it that produced 'Reuben Hallard.
The boarding-house was immensely moved, and Peter, during these days came back early from the bookshop in order to sit with her.
Outside the bookshop Stephen and Peter had parted.
He found himself in a bookshop lighted with gas that hissed and spit like an angry cat; the shop was low and stuffy but its walls were covered with books that stretched into misty fog near the ceiling.
He wondered how it was that being in a stuffy bookshop for seven years had done Peter no harm, he wondered how he could keep the back of his neck so brown as that in London and his cheeks as healthy a colour and his eyes as clear.
It was in Russell Street, in the bookshop of Thomas Davies, the actor, that Boswell had his eagerly desired first meeting with Dr.
He sat in the little kitchen out behind the bookshop and philosophised and smiled, while Ann gave Arthur Waddy Kipps his evening tub before the fire.
But whether indeed it is the bookshop that keeps Kipps or whether it is Kipps who keeps the bookshop is just one of those commercial mysteries people of my unarithmetical temperament are never able to solve.
The remarkable advertisement which had fired Kipps' imagination with this dream of a bookshop opened out in the most alluring way.
He got tired of being a shopkeeper and volunteered on board a man-of-war; but on seeing a seaman flogged round the fleet for mutiny, was so disgusted with the sight that he deserted, and started a bookshop at Plymouth Dock.
In Jimmy's pocket was a small book he had purchased at a second-hand bookshop the evening before, upon the cover of which appeared the title "How to Get More Out of Your Factory.
But I had a notion that in this wonderful London the bookshop would actually have the book that you wanted, there actually in presence, and waiting for you on its shelves.
But I have a notion that the last time I went that way I saw a second-hand bookshop on the London side of the railway bridge, where in '83 I bought an old, odd volume of Cowley's poems.
For, be it remembered, one did not go into a provincial bookshop in that easy way and say, "Have you got this or that?
Just to appease my conscience, I stopped in at the agreeable Cadmus bookshop on Thirty-third street to see if by any chance they might have a second-hand copy of Kenko.
This great event, which enriched the world with one of the most vivid panoramas of human nature known to man, happened in Tom Davies's bookshop in Covent Garden.
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