...unfortunate day of the auction at The Hurst, young Mrs. Fellowes sat on a little stool by the fire, with her elbows on her knees, and her chin in her hands, thinking. There was no external interruption to her quiet. Her husband was lying on the sofa in a deep...

...always so. The Bible is a very wise book, isn't it?" " Mamma," said Tiny, after some quiet thinking, with her elbows on her knees, and her chin in her hands. " What do you think 1 I went and said the ////softest answers to Rosy this morning that ever you heard...

...room that evening ' — she knew she would be alone and undisturbed there — and she wished to think. With her elbows on her knees, and her chin in her hands, her favourite position when her mind was busy, Alice remained for about an hour in profound meditation....

...went on till Lady Mansell found that it was time to go. Afterwards Julia sat crouching by the fire, with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. Her aunt, rather puzzled and distressed, glanced from her to Tiny, who shook her head, and then said gently,...

...reluctantly to give him her hand. Then she turned sullenly away and sat down in the door of the mill with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. Dumbfounded, the old miller pulled the sack of corn from the horse and leaned it against the mill....

...now lapsed into a condition of silent brooding. She would sit the whole day in one position, crouched with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands, looking fixedly before her, and saying nothing : taking no notice of anything said or done near her....

...she said, perching herself on the arm of the sofa, and looking at her sisters as they sat upon it, with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. " I expect we shall have some lessons now, though, we're ' in the school-room,' now we are in the country...

...began to ebb, and she put down her charcoal and went across to the model-throne, where she sat down with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands, and fell to thinking deeply. Inkling came and jumped up in her lap, but she pushed him away with a...

...consolation. Then she rose, pushed aside her work, and went to a low stool by the fire. She sat crouched down, with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. " Honora," she suddenly exclaimed, " when they said that ' Curses come home to roost,' they said it...

...went into the corner behind the door, and sat down -fG 252 £3on the floor. She sat there a long time, with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. It was the first time she had ever told a falsehood ; and such a strange little pain had come into...