She doesn't walk much because of her roomatism, so she sits mostly in her back parlor and reads and knits lace or plays cards with Caroline.
When I graduate, I'm going to fix up our parlor at home so it'll be simply regal.
Burch said, if any sister would offer entertainment, they would pass the night, and have a parlor meeting in Riverboro to-morrow, with Mrs.
In that event we could hold a parlor meeting.
She glanced in the parlor looking-glass downstairs and was electrified at the vision.
And one day, when Leslie was fourteen years of age, he hanged himself—and in the parlor, too, mind you, Anne, right in the middle of the parlor from the lamp hook in the ceiling.
" "And you'll be married in the parlor?
An hour later he was reading in the parlor, having no heart for play, when Frank came in with a look upon his face which would have prepared Jack for the news if he had seen it.
"Boys, boys, not through the parlor!
Then Miss Bat threw the parlor carpet out of the window, and I was so surprised I had to run and tell you.
Something made the old nursery hymn come into Merry's head, and humming to herself, "In works of labor or of skill I would be busy too," she tied on her cap, shouldered her broom, and fell to work so energetically that she soon swept her way through the chambers, down the front stairs to the parlor door, leaving freshness and order behind her as she went.
Minot entertained a parlor full of company.
Frank, having tied up the bell and put a notice in the lighted side-window, saying, "Go to the back door," sat in the parlor, supported by his chum, Gus, while Ed played softly on the piano, hoping to lull Jack to sleep.
When Mary handed him into the small parlor, he looked around it critically.
When he reached his own house there was a coupe standing before the door and some one was in the little parlor talking to his mamma.
When Fred was riding home on winter evenings he had a pleasant vision beforehand of the bright hearth in the wainscoted parlor, and was sorry for other men who could not have Mary for their wife; especially for Mr.
He went down into the wainscoted parlor first, and began to consider whether he would not have his horse saddled and go home by the moonlight, and give up caring for earthly consequences.
Bulstrode met him outside the wainscoted parlor, where Raffles was, and said— "I have called you in, Mr.
When there was food and drink spread before his visitor in the wainscoted parlor, and no witness in the room, Mr.
Farebrother knew that he was to have the Lowick living, there was joy in the old fashioned parlor, and even the portraits of the great lawyers seemed to look on with satisfaction.
