The evening passed in song and laughter, and when darkness fell the Danes lay down to rest in the
hall as of old.
"Jim
Hall," said Judge Scott, and father and son looked significantly at each other.
They looked to O-Tar; but he could only gaze helplessly about him as the enemy entered from The
Hall of Chiefs and circled the throne room until they had surrounded the entire company.
"Now, listen; I'm going to teach you something,"
Hall commanded, a large round rock poised in his hand above the abalone meat.
I fear that we shall never again be easy in our minds at Baskerville
Hall."
So easily and smoothly had Dempsey and the board done their preliminary work that many in the
hall had not noticed the checking of the fascinating O'Sullivan's social triumph.
The old Palais would be standing still, with its ancient grand
hall; I should be able to say to the reader, "Go and look at it," and we should thus both escape the necessity,--I of making, and he of reading, a description of it, such as it is.
They passed through the
hall and the small oak parlour, on the table of which stood the three tumblers and the empty rum-bottle which had served for Sir Pitt's carouse, and through that apartment into Sir Pitt's study, where they found Miss Horrocks, of the guilty ribbons, with a wild air, trying at the presses and escritoires with a bunch of keys.
"It is out of my power to send you to Redwood
Hall at once," she resumed.
Pearl accordingly ran to the bow-window, at the further end of the
hall, and looked along the vista of a garden walk, carpeted with closely-shaven grass, and bordered with some rude and immature attempt at shrubbery.
As we entered the
hall the hum of subdued conversation ceased until as we halted upon the platform, or Throne of Righteousness, the silence of death enveloped the ten thousand spectators.
If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years he will be clear; and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch
Hall has a respectability in itself which cannot be affected by these reductions; and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.
They took each other by the hand, and wandered forth out of the large
hall; they talked of their old grandmother, and of the roses upon the roof; and wherever they went, the winds ceased raging, and the sun burst forth.
In a
hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its extreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks rough-hewn from the forest, and which had scarcely received any polish, stood ready prepared for the evening meal of Cedric the Saxon.
Braithwaite that I was dining at the
hall. She was busy cooking, and I felt prepared for her unpleasant expression; but she showed no annoyance at my news.