'Do you think the
chimney-piece is as solid as it looks?' Henry proceeded.
The nervous excitement of which we speak pursued Valentine even in her sleep, or rather in that state of somnolence which succeeded her waking hours; it was then, in the silence of night, in the dim light shed from the alabaster lamp on the
chimney-piece, that she saw the shadows pass and repass which hover over the bed of sickness, and fan the fever with their trembling wings.
"Only a little tired of myself," replied Estella, disengaging her arm, and moving to the great
chimney-piece, where she stood looking down at the fire.
"Yes, it's a family habit to be born here!" the young man said with a laugh, and rose and threw the remnant of his cigarette into the fire, and then remained leaning against the
chimney-piece. An observer would have perceived that he wished to take a better look at Newman, whom he covertly examined, while he stood stroking his mustache.
He took his dog-whistle from the
chimney-piece, and turned his steps at once in the direction of the drawing-room, in which his guests were passing the evening.
'You should not have come out,' she said, rising and reaching from the
chimney-piece two of the painted canisters.
It'll be easy enough to get through--' She was up on the
chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there.
My aunt's plain old-fashioned fan was on the
chimney-piece. I opened my ninth book at a very special passage, and put the fan in as a marker, to keep the place.
But instead of sitting in her usual manner, holding her glass upon her knee, she suffered it to stand neglected on the
chimney-piece; and, resting her left elbow on her right arm, and her chin on her left hand, looked thoughtfully at me.
He brought me two little vials, put one on the
chimney-piece, poured the other into my tumbler, and added a little water.
'What did you think of my brother, sir?' he asked, when he by-and- by discovered what he was doing, left off, reached over to the
chimney-piece, and took his clarionet case down.
James Harthouse smiled; and rising from his end of the sofa, and lounging with his back against the
chimney-piece, so that he stood before the empty fire-grate as he smoked, in front of Tom and looking down at him, observed: