She opened the drawers at the base of her old-fashioned looking-glass and counted up her possessions.
To ease her distress of mind, she tried calling on her old friends, the Medlicotts, and her new ones, the Trivetts.
She had gone one day to Brandenburg College to call on her old employers, but she found that the name-plate had been removed, and that the house was to let.
Wondering what it could mean, she hastened to her old acquaintance, who, despite her protests, was being urged towards the cab.
She dotes, she says, on her old chateau of Maintenon; do not deprive her of this delight.
The Comte de Poitiers having died whilst hunting, Honorinde learnt of her old serving-man in what refuge, in what asylum, he had long ago deposited the little one.
As for her, her decent and quite appropriate attitude merited for her the approval of her old friend, of the King, and of the most critical eyes.
She was thinking of her old breakfasts, and her feasts at the Turk.
Her heart sank as she thought of her old friendships, of her mother, her sister, the pride of her innocence, and the pure joys of the home fireside.
She had found one of her old friends, who was now an accomplished dressmaker, and who was anxious to obtain a partner who had some money, while she herself furnished the experience.
I shall walk with you," she said, with a flash of her old impertinence.
She had apparently gone, not only out of her old life, but out of his as well.
He found her very lovely, rather chastened and subdued, but much more appealing than in her old days of sparkle and high spirits.
Then the other engagement was broken off--washed away by Mrs. Gaurey's tears, for that lady governed her house by weeping over disobedience to her authority and the lack of reverence she received in her old age.
You know my wife was insanely fond of the woman ('never could see anything in her myself), and wanted me to pick up her old 'rickshaw and coolies if they were to be got for love or money.
When he turned his attentions to Miss Beighton, I believe that Mrs. Beighton wept with delight at the reward Providence had sent her in her old age.
There was no trace ofher old coldness and reserve, no shadow of her old bitterness.
When the suffering young creature opened her eyes again, she was upon her own bed, in her own room, in her old home.
The month of March, so trying to a weak and shattered constitution, found her just well enough to venture out to seek for employment at her old business of cigar-making.
And Mrs. Munroe offered this visit as a constant apology for her not knowing more precisely every detail of her old friend's business.
Nothing set her to thinking of her old home as those Sunday evenings did.
So she perhaps would have been if she had seen none of her old acquaintances.
The great change in Ellen's life consequent upon her meeting Ernest and getting married had for a time actually sobered her by shaking her out ofher old ways.
After a long rest she came quietly down from the cracker-box toward the steps leading to the cellar, engaged in her old-time pursuit of seeking for eatables.
Under this she sat patiently till nightfall came with quiet, then sneaked back like a shadow to her old iron-yard.
But Pussy was not prepossessed in their favor, and disappeared to forage in her old-time haunts.
A sudden noise, a growl and a rush, were the first notice she had that she was cut off byher old enemy, the Wharf Dog.
She was always dangling and ogling after him, I recollect now; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father.
I thought she'd given up the notion o' going back to her old country.
She's got a touch of her old complaint, and she wants Dinah to go and stay with her a bit.
I wish she had a surer trust to comfort her in her old age.
The cottage was far from that standard at present, for Lisbeth's rheumatism had forced her to give up her old habits of dilettante scouring and polishing.
Besides, she could not have done missionary work; she had never done anything in her life; she was always wasting her time pottering about the country on her old horse, seeing sick old darkies or poor people in the pines.
She came to his house on her old mare, in the rain and snow the night before, to get him to go to see someone, some "friend" of hers who was sick.
She had a little, faded knot of Confederate colors fastened in her old dress, and, almost hidden by the crowd, she was looking up and down in some distress to see if she could not again get a place from which she could see.
She would sometimes have a chicken in a basket hung on the off pummel of her old saddle, because at times she fancied she could not eat anything but chicken soup, and she did "not wish to give trouble.
She must take upher old life--the interests of the neighborhood.
It was only natural that Margaret, who might have been contented with two rooms and a lean-to as the wife of a country clergyman, should have felt cramped in her old house, which once seemed a world too large for the country girl.
She has held herself very high, and quite aloof from many of her old friends," Constance resumed.
There was an old friend of Delia's at the house--a young lady who had been much attached to her, and who still retained a degree of her old friendship.
And again, when she has been in one of her old, pleasant states of mind I have noticed that she all at once drew back into herself; I could trace the cause to only this--the presence of Henry Wallingford.
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