 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 668 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey and stick them up in Lady C 's tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed." And then I 15 told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 456 pages
...was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for 10 many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such a good woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psalter by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, "that would be fool- 5 ish, indeed." And then I told how, when she came to die,...been such a good and religious woman; so good indeed 10 that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 258 pages
...away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry 5 gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for 10 many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 pages
...away the old tombs they had seen 30 lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighbourhood 5 for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such a good and... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 440 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawingroom. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - 352 pages
...away the old tombs they had seen 30 lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C. 's tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighbourhood 5 for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such a good and... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say,...all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
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... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey,... 
