Can't you hear what personal and appropriate remarks Tommy is making down there?
Now do run away, Master Garthie, and count your pearls.

And if you suddenly come upon a cross--remember, the cross can, in all probability, be persuaded to return to Chicago!" Jane was still smiling as she entered her room and placed her candlestick on the dressing-table.
Overdene was lighted solely by lamps and candles.

The duchess refused to modernise it by the installation of electric light.

But candles abounded, and Jane, who liked a brilliant illumination, proceeded to light both candles in the branches on either side of the dressing-table mirror, and in the sconces on the wall beside the mantelpiece, and in the tall silver candlesticks upon the writing-table.

Then she seated herself in a comfortable arm-chair, reached for her writing-case, took out her diary and a fountain pen, and prepared to finish the day's entry.