Evening
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"Good evening," said K., pointing with one hand to a chair in a corner which the businessman was to sit on, and he did indeed sit down on it.
Chapter TenEndThe
evening
before K.'s thirty-first birthday - it was about nine o'clock in the evening, the time when the streets were quiet - two men came to where he lived.
It is
evening.
SO, on the following evening, we again assembled, to discuss and arrange our plans.
And we would all have to go down on our knees and grovel for it, while he would stand on the chair, and grunt, and want to know if he was to be kept there all the
evening.
A glass in the
evening
when you are doing a mouch round the town and looking at the girls is all right enough; but don't drink when the sun is blazing down on your head, and you've got hard work to do.
We made a list of the things to be taken, and a pretty lengthy one it was, before we parted that
evening.
The next day, which was Friday, we got them all together, and met in the
evening
to pack.
It would be so ghastly dull and depressing in the evening, when your lamp cast uncanny shadows on the panelled walls, and the echo of distant feet rang through the cold stone corridors, and now drew nearer, and now died away, and all was death-like silence, save the beating of one's own heart.
He brought it home and showed it to us on Thursday
evening.
As an example of how utterly oblivious a pair of towers can be to their work, George told us, later on in the evening, when we were discussing the subject after supper, of a very curious instance.
He and three other men, so he said, were sculling a very heavily laden boat up from Maidenhead one evening, and a little above Cookham lock they noticed a fellow and a girl, walking along the towpath, both deep in an apparently interesting and absorbing conversation.
He said his father was travelling with another fellow through Wales, and, one night, they stopped at a little inn, where there were some other fellows, and they joined the other fellows, and spent the
evening
with them.
They had a very jolly evening, and sat up late, and, by the time they came to go to bed, they (this was when George's father was a very young man) were slightly jolly, too.
He said his watch went wrong one evening, and stopped at a quarter-past eight.
George said it was a wicked shame of Mrs. G., and he made up his mind to tell her what he thought of her when he came home in the
evening.
And all the
evening
long the timid townsmen's doors have had to be quick opened to let in rough groups of soldiers, for whom there must be found both board and lodging, and the best of both, or woe betide the house and all within; for the sword is judge and jury, plaintiff and executioner, in these tempestuous times, and pays for what it takes by sparing those from whom it takes it, if it pleases it to do so.
Round the camp-fire in the market-place gather still more of the Barons' troops, and eat and drink deep, and bellow forth roystering drinking songs, and gamble and quarrel as the
evening
grows and deepens into night.
The landlord came up and said:"Good evening, gentlemen."
"Oh, good evening," said George; "we want three beds, please."
He keeps that hat now (what is left of it), and, of a winter's evening, when the pipes are lit and the boys are telling stretchers about the dangers they have passed through, George brings it down and shows it round, and the stirring tale is told anew, with fresh exaggerations every time.
We pulled up in the backwater, just below Cookham, and had tea; and, when we were through the lock, it was
evening.
This evening, however, they had evidently made a mistake, and had put the wind round at our back instead of in our face.
We did not know what had happened at first, because the sail shut out the view, but from the nature of the language that rose up upon the
evening
air, we gathered that we had come into the neighbourhood of human beings, and that they were vexed and discontented.
On he came, serene, dignified, and calm, until he was abreast of our boat, and there, among the rushes, he eased up, and settled down cosily for the
evening.
It is a veritable picture of an old country inn, with green, square courtyard in front, where, on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an
evening
to drink their ale and gossip over village politics; with low, quaint rooms and latticed windows, and awkward stairs and winding passages.
We said we should require the rest of the
evening
for scraping ourselves.
Then, across the
evening
stillness, broke a blood-curdling yelp, and Montmorency left the boat, and did a constitutional three times round the island at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, stopping every now and then to bury his nose in a bit of cool mud.
She had wandered about the woods by the river's brink all day, and then, when
evening
fell and the grey twilight spread its dusky robe upon the waters, she stretched her arms out to the silent river that had known her sorrow and her joy.
Anybody can come in and say, "Oh, I caught fifteen dozen perch yesterday evening;" or "Last Monday I landed a gudgeon, weighing eighteen pounds, and measuring three feet from the tip to the tail."
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