So the veteran fancied in his amended mind.
This intrusive sunlight chased him from the breakfast-table and out of the house.

She would be enjoying it somewhere; but the house empty of a person it was used to contain had an atmosphere of the vaults, and inside it the sunlight she loved had an effect of taunting him singularly.
He called on his upholsterer and heard news to please her.

The house hired for a month above Great Marlow was ready; her ladyship could enter it to-morrow.

It pleased my lord to think that she might do so, and not bother him any more about the presentation at Court during the current year.

In spite of certain overtures from the military authorities, and roused eulogistic citations of his name in the newspapers and magazines, he was not on friendly terms with his country yet, having contracted the fatal habit of irony, which, whether hitting or musing its object, stirs old venom in our wound, twitches the feelings.