Peter held it before his eyes, and, looking through the liquid medium, beheld the
kitchen illuminated with a golden glory, which also enveloped Tabitha and gilded her silver hair, and converted her mean garments into robes of queenly splendor.
He starved in the parlour, and I starved in the
kitchen; that was the principal difference in our positions; there was not much more than a flight of breakneck stairs between us.
Before the one window, looking out on the tiny front porch, was the
kitchen table that served as desk, library, and type- writing stand.
Now, some demon of discord, flying over the Saracen's Head at that moment, on casting down his eyes in mere idle curiosity, happened to behold Slurk established comfortably by the
kitchen fire, and Pott slightly elevated with wine in another room; upon which the malicious demon, darting down into the last-mentioned apartment with inconceivable rapidity, passed at once into the head of Mr.
Surgeon Surville, entering from the
kitchen, drew aside the canvas screen, and approached the little round table at which his superior officer was sitting.
I supposed I should be condemned in Hareton Earnshaw's heart, if not by his mouth, to the lowest pit in the infernal regions if I showed my unfortunate person in his neighbourhood then; and feeling very mean and malignant, I skulked round to seek refuge in the
kitchen. There was unobstructed admittance on that side also; and at the door sat my old friend Nelly Dean, sewing and singing a song; which was often interrupted from within by harsh words of scorn and intolerance, uttered in far from musical accents.
The barn was empty when the horses turned into it and, after giving them the most perfunctory ministrations they had ever received from him, he strode up to the house and pushed open the
kitchen door.
Rook fastened the other door, the lock and bolts of which were on the side of the
kitchen. He then secured the house door, and the shutters over the lower windows.
Mr Jones was at this time comforting the poor distressed lady, who sat down at a table in the
kitchen, and leaning her head upon her arm, was bemoaning her misfortunes; but lest my fair readers should be in pain concerning a particular circumstance, I think proper here to acquaint them, that before she had quitted the room above stairs, she had so well covered herself with a pillowbeer which she there found, that her regard to decency was not in the least violated by the presence of so many men as were now in the room.
You're goin' ter have some one ter play it with, anyhow," she finished, as they entered the
kitchen together.
But there were preparations upon the
kitchen table which made him shudder.
By that time, I was staggering on the
kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.
`But first you come down to the
kitchen with me, and have a nice warm bath behind the stove.
This pantry opened into a kind of wash-up
kitchen, and in this was firewood; there was also a cupboard, in which we found nearly a dozen of burgundy, tinned soups and salmon, and two tins of biscuits.
The
kitchen had had none of her attention that day; it was soiled with the tread of muddy shoes and untidy with clothes and other objects out of place.
