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A Bit of Human Nature

... the matches, and then, opening the door on the windy vestibule, clawed in his boots and pulled th on. Next he sought the kitchen, and, casting off his upper raimem had a great wash in icy water, and was his own man again, Duri his absence Fifine had been ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1884
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 29856 | Page: 8 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Bulldog and Butterfly

... positively delightful weather, Bertha stood with folded hands in the porch of the Oak House (the floor and the far wall of the kitchen behind her patched with gleams of red and brown light) like the central figure of a picture framed in live green. She was ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1886
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 13912 | Page: 9 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE WHITE FACED MARE

... seen Cicely com fortably done up for the night and fed, and patted her affec tionately, the Major made his way through the kitchen into the bar, where he found the landlord and his buxom wife and pretty barmaid all waiting to give him a hearty welcome. ...

EROS AND ANTEROS: A STORY IN FIVE CHAPTERS; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V

... walk to the abbey ruins just outside the park. Kathleen declined the invitation to accompany them, and started through the kitchen garden into the park to see an old woman in the copse above. She was a pretty sight as she passed hastily into the shrubbery ...

SPORTING & DRAMATIC STORIES: NATHALIE; A ROMANCE OF A BALLET-GIRL

... but Moore hastened to set at rest the apprehensions of these worthies, seeing at once that he had fallen into a thieves' kitchen. No fear mates, ho said, I am only the doctor going my rounds. Come into the wrong house, I see. Sorry I disturbed you. ...

PALEFACE AND REDSKIN: A COMEDY STORY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

... prepared for action else it's no use, Then, look at the protection it is, Why, we've just built a fortified place close to the kitchen garden, where you could all retire to if we were attacked and, properly provisioned, we could hold out for almost any time ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1887
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 13417 | Page: 20 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Fiction/Narrative

... as that which ensued in the Gifford dovecote. Cinderella's feelings, when she was set down after her grand ball among the kitchen pots and pans and ashes, may faintly have prefigured the anguish those who had been prepared to take dear Joan to their hearts ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1888
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 31648 | Page: 9 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A Croup of Noble Dames: PRELIMINARY

... wing showed extreme antiquity, having huge chimneys, whose substructures projected from the external walls like towers and a kitchen of vast dimensions, in which (it was said) breakfasts had been cooked for John of Gaunt. Whilst he was yet in the forecourt ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1890
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 29288 | Page: 9 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: BOOK SECOND.--CHAPTER XV

... he had bought at a sale. But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals down stairs in the general dining-kitchen, with the dairyman and his wife, and the maids and men, who all together formed a lively assembly for though but few milking ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1891
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5670 | Page: 12 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative