As Elizabeth Murray folded up the last letter her hands trembled—with anger, and something underneath it that was not anger.
Underneath was a small fireplace.
It seemed to her that the slightest movement on her part would send it over, straight to the cruel boulders underneath.
Then she stepped softly across to an old, worn-out sofa in a far corner and knelt down, stowing away her letter and her "letter-bills" snugly on a little shelf formed by a board nailed across it underneath.
One big spruce grew in the center of the garden and underneath it was a stone bench, made of flat shore stones worn smooth by long polish of wind and wave.
Aren't you glad you wore your pink gingham now, even if mother did make you put on flannel underneath?
I'd like a green petticoat coming out now and then underneath to show what my leaves were like before I was a scarlet maple.
It carried her through weary months of nursing—nursing of other soldiers for Tom's dear sake; it sent her home a better woman; and though she had never left Riverboro in all the years that lay between, and had grown into the counterfeit presentment of her sister and of all other thin, spare, New England spinsters, it was something of a counterfeit, and underneath was still the faint echo of that wild heart-beat of her girlhood.
Unless you happened to be underneath looking up, you never would have guessed there was an entrance at all.
And he knew that if Shadow returned he would be sure to find the little round holes in the snow that led down to Whitefoot's private little tunnels underneath.
It was Whitefoot's nest which he had so cleverly hidden way down underneath that pile of wood when he had first moved into the sugar-house.
When he had filled his little stomach, he began to carry the remainder back to his storehouse underneath the woodpile.
His remarks revealed the fact that underneath the broad religious structure of the enterprise, and supporting it, there was a basis of individual diplomacy and solicitation.
Pooh had had a Mysterious Missage underneath his front door that morning, saying, "I AM SCERCHING FOR A NEW HOUSE FOR OWL SO HAD YOU RABBIT," and while he was wondering what it meant, Rabbit had come in and read it for him.
"Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?
" "Perhaps we better hadn't go underneath, Pooh.
" "Underneath," said Piglet in an underneath sort of way.
Two minutes I stood over Madame, feeling that the whole woman was in my power, because in some moods, such as the present—in some stimulated states of perception, like that of this instant—her habitual disguise, her mask and her domino, were to me a mere network reticulated with holes; and I saw underneath a being heartless, self-indulgent, and ignoble.
Underneath this aperture I pushed a large empty chest, and having mounted upon it a smaller box, and wiped from both the dust, I gathered my dress (my best, the reader must remember, and therefore a legitimate object of care) fastidiously around me, ascended this species of extempore throne, and being seated, commenced the acquisition of my task; while I learned, not forgetting to keep a sharp look-out on the black-beetles and cockroaches, of which, more even, I believe, than of the rats, I sat
I now commanded my own bed and my own toilet, with a locked work-box upon it, and locked drawers underneath.
