Evening
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He lets the youngsters brag away for a while, and then, during a momentary lull, he removes the pipe from his mouth, and remarks, as he knocks the ashes out against the bars:"Well, I had a haul on Tuesday
evening
that it's not much good my telling anybody about."
If ever you have an
evening
to spare, up the river, I should advise you to drop into one of the little village inns, and take a seat in the tap- room.
George and I - I don't know what had become of Harris; he had gone out and had a shave, early in the afternoon, and had then come back and spent full forty minutes in pipeclaying his shoes, we had not seen him since - George and I, therefore, and the dog, left to ourselves, went for a walk to Wallingford on the second evening, and, coming home, we called in at a little river-side inn, for a rest, and other things.
I cannot honestly say that we had a merry
evening.
I had always regarded "Two Lovely Black Eyes" as rather a commonplace tune until that
evening.
At about four o'clock we began to discuss our arrangements for the
evening.
"Another jolly evening!" murmured George.
It nearly makes me cross the way he never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but stayed home every
evening.
IIIt was not until it was getting dark that
evening
that Gregor awoke from his deep and coma-like sleep.
His father at this time would normally be sat with his
evening
paper, reading it out in a loud voice to Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not a sound to be heard.
Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to enter the room but thought better of it.
There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the
evening
meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt.
He had been reduced to the condition of an ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made up for by the door to the living room being left open every
evening.
Gregor would often spend the whole
evening
looking at all the stains on this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but peaceful.
The household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped around her head came every morning and
evening
to do the heaviest work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of the large amount of sewing work she did.
Gregor even learned, listening to the
evening
conversation about what price they had hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond of wearing them at functions and celebrations.
Gregor's sister no longer thought about how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the morning and at midday, and in the
evening
she would sweep it away again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or - more often than not - had been left totally untouched.
She still cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been any quicker about it.
But his mother was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had his sister arrived home in the
evening
than she noticed the change in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she broke into convulsive tears.
From then on she never failed to open the door slightly every
evening
and morning and look briefly in on him.
The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their
evening
meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so the door to this room was often kept closed in the
evening.
One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who rented the room came in in the
evening
and the light was put on.
Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the violin being played, but this
evening
it began to be heard from the kitchen.
Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself out for his usual
evening
nap but from the uncontrolled way his head kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all.
The easterly wind, with its chilling dampness and increasing violence, gave unerring notice of the approach of a storm, which, as usual, might be expected to continue for several days; and the experienced eye of the traveler was turned in vain, through the darkness of the evening, in quest of some convenient shelter, in which, for the term of his confinement by the rain that already began to mix with the atmosphere in a thick mist, he might obtain such accommodations as his purposes required.
The traveler was shown into an extremely neat parlor, where a fire had been lighted to cheer the dullness of an easterly storm and an October
evening.
A twelvemonth had, however, passed without his seeing them, and the impatient Henry had adopted the disguise we have mentioned, and unfortunately arrived on the very
evening
that an unknown and rather suspicious guest was an inmate of the house, which seldom contained any other than its regular inhabitants.
Nothing occurred of any moment during the rest of the day; but in the
evening
Caesar reported that he had overheard voices in the room of Harper, conversing in a low tone.
His children and sister believed Caesar to have been mistaken, and the
evening
passed off without any additional alarm.
Such moments belong only to the climate of America, and are enjoyed in a degree proportioned to the suddenness of the contrast, and the pleasure we experience in escaping from the turbulence of the elements to the quiet of a peaceful evening, and an air still as the softest mornings in June.
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