Evening
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It is likely that we should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so secret.
"When
evening
came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave so precious a thing in the office behind me.
Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here again before evening."
The devil knows best what he said, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing him nearly every evening."
I knew that none had fallen since the
evening
before, and also that there had been a strong frost to preserve impressions.
"I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," said Mr. Holder.
It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and ran thus:"DEAR MR.
"I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, and was introduced by him that
evening
to his wife and the child.
One evening, after the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things.
Recently he has been drinking hard, and yesterday
evening
he was very drunk; and when I came upstairs there was the key in the door.
They each led into an empty room, dusty and cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so thick with dirt that the
evening
light glimmered dimly through them.
A horrible doubt came into my mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, or who would venture to set him free.
I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the evening, so that I must look after the child.
"Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last
evening
of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you!--when learn to feel a home elsewhere!--Oh!
In the evening, as Marianne was discovered to be musical, she was invited to play.
She rather suspected it to be so, on the very first
evening
of their being together, from his listening so attentively while she sang to them; and when the visit was returned by the Middletons' dining at the cottage, the fact was ascertained by his listening to her again.
How languid their conversation the last
evening
of their being together!
This suspicion was given by some words which accidently dropped from him one
evening
at the park, when they were sitting down together by mutual consent, while the others were dancing.
Willoughby had spent the preceding
evening
with them, and Margaret, by being left some time in the parlour with only him and Marianne, had had opportunity for observations, which, with a most important face, she communicated to her eldest sister, when they were next by themselves.
When Mrs. Jennings attacked her one
evening
at the park, to give the name of the young man who was Elinor's particular favourite, which had been long a matter of great curiosity to her, Margaret answered by looking at her sister, and saying, "I must not tell, may I, Elinor?"
A party was formed this
evening
for going on the following day to see a very fine place about twelve miles from Barton, belonging to a brother-in-law of Colonel Brandon, without whose interest it could not be seen, as the proprietor, who was then abroad, had left strict orders on that head.
It was settled that there should be a dance in the evening, and that every body should be extremely merry all day long.
One
evening
in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood's happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him.
The promise was readily given, and Willoughby's behaviour during the whole of the
evening
declared at once his affection and happiness.
This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole
evening.
The
evening
passed off in the equal indulgence of feeling.
It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour;--but one evening, Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed, "We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.
Sir John never came to the Dashwoods without either inviting them to dine at the park the next day, or to drink tea with them that
evening.
Mrs. Jennings, in the meantime, talked on as loud as she could, and continued her account of their surprise, the
evening
before, on seeing their friends, without ceasing till every thing was told.
But it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded, though Lucy was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred; for the weather was not often fine enough to allow of their joining in a walk, where they might most easily separate themselves from the others; and though they met at least every other
evening
either at the park or cottage, and chiefly at the former, they could not be supposed to meet for the sake of conversation.
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