His eyes were fixed on some object behind the trees, where nothing was visible but a portion of the wall of a house.

His expression of concentrated fury--his attitude of waiting--testified that he would surely accomplish his intention.
"What a picture!" "The foliage attracted me, and I bought it; but when I unpacked it, the man seemed to come out for the first time.

Will you take it ?" "No; I mean to give my room a somnolent aspect.

The man is too terribly sleepless." A table stood near the window, methodically covered with labelled blank-books, a morocco portfolio, and a Wedgewood inkstand and vase.
In an arch, which she had manufactured from the space under the garret stairs, stood her bed.

At its foot, against the wall, a bunch of crimson autumn leaves was fastened, and a bough, black and bare, with an empty nest on it.
"Where is the feminine portion of your furnishing ?" "Look in the closet." I opened a door.