the first tea up there -- separate from her father and aunt , who were diningdiningsomewhere down below an infinite depth of stairs ; for unless she were up in the sky ( the child thoughtthink) , they must be deep down in the bowels of the earth .
And here he proceeded to give a particular accountaccountof his sport , and the respective traits of prowess evinced by the badger and the dogs ; my mother pretendingpretendto listen with deep attention , and watchingwatchhis animated countenance with a degree of maternal admiration I thoughtthinkhighly disproportioned to its object .
They had never seen the like of Sing , and thoughtthinkthat I was introducing a wolf into the fold .
At first we thoughtthinkit was the want of company of his own kind that made him ask this question , but at last we began to seeseehe was desirous to avoid them .
Whereupon I once more thoughtthinkof attempting to break my bonds ; but again , when I felt the smartsmartof their arrows upon my face and hands , which were all in blistersblister, and many of the darts still stickingstickin them , and observingobservelikewise that the number of my enemies increasedincrease, I gave tokenstokento let them know that they might do with me what they pleased .
I feltfeelthat I had been very far away , in some land where the customs were strange — in Persia , I thoughtthink... .
Upon my entranceentrance, Usher roserisefrom a sofa on which he had been lying at full length , and greetedgreetme with a vivacious warmth which had much in it , I at first thoughtthink, of an overdone cordiality -- of the constrained effort of the ennuye man of the world .
As I lookedlookat him I could not help thinkingthinkwhat a curious contrast my little dried-up self presented to his grand face and form .
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying , smokingsmoke, as was his custom , innumerable cigarettes , Lord Henry Wotton could just catchcatchthe gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum , whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs ; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flittedflitacross the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window , producing a kind of momentary Japanese effecteffect, and making him thinkthinkof those pallid , jade-faced painters of Tokyo who , through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile , seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion .
The bolder spirits laughedlaughthem to scorn , but the women began to weepweepand cowercower, and I , though I laughedlaughtoo , thoughtthinkof Smith , and how he ever held the savages , and more especially that Opechancanough who was now their emperor , in a most deep distrust ; telling us that the red men watched while we slept , that they might teach wiliness to a Jesuit , and how to bide its time to a cat crouched before a mousehole .
Suddenly she camecomeupon a little three-legged table , all made of solid glass ; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key , and Alice ’s first thoughtthinkwas that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall ; but , alas !
He had during those moments feltfeelthese elements to be not so much to his hand as he should have liked , and then had fallen back on the thoughtthinkthat they were precisely a matter as to which help was supposed to come from what he was about to do .
( when she thoughtthinkit over afterwards , it occurredoccurto her that she ought to have wondered at this , but at the time it all seemed quite natural ) ; but when the Rabbit actually TOOKtakeA WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET , and lookedlookat it , and then hurriedhurryon , Alice startedstartto her feet , for it flashedflashacross her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket , or a watch to take out of it , and burning with curiosity , she ranrunacross the field after it , and fortunately was just in time to seeseeit poppopdown a large rabbit-hole under the hedge .
Katharine stirredstirher tea , and seemed to speculate , so Denham thoughtthink, upon the duty of filling somebody else ’s cup , but she was really wonderingwonderhow she was going to keep this strange young man in harmony with the rest .
As the entire working staff of the institution was presentpresent, I thoughtthinkit a good opportunity to emphasize the fact that all of these upsetting , innovations come straight from headquarters , and not out of my excitable brain .
" We 'll read Faust together ... by the Italian lakes ... " he thoughtthink, somewhat hazily confusingconfusingthe scene of his projected honey-moon with the masterpieces of literature which it would be his manly privilege to reveal to his bride .
It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first satsitin mournful thoughtthinkof any continuance .
" Poor little boy , it 's dreadful to thinkthinkof him quite alone in the world .
“ Exactly as if he were going to give out a text , ” he thoughtthink.
As I lookedlookat my friend standing there by the companion-ladder , I thoughtthinkthat if he only let his grow a little , put one of those chain shirts on to his great shoulders , and took hold of a battle-axe and a horn mug , he might have sat as a model for that picture .
I thoughtthinkof the terms we now kept with these heathen ; of how they came and went familiarly amongst us , spying out our weakness , and losing the salutary awe which that noblest captain had struckstrikeinto their souls ; of how many were employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters ; of how , breakingbreakthe law , and that not secretly , we gavegivethem knives and arms , a soldier 's bread , in exchangeexchangefor pelts and pearls ; of how their emperor was forever sending us smooth messages ; of how their lips smiled and their eyes frowned .
As she thoughtthinkof the delight of filling the important post of only daughter in Helstone parsonage , pieces of the conversationconversationout of the next room camecomeupon her ears .
" It is well I drewdrawthe curtain , " thoughtthinkI ; and I wishedwishfervently he might not discover my hiding-place : nor would John Reed have found it out himself ; he was not quick either of vision or conception ; but Eliza just putputher head in at the door , and saidsayat once -- " She is in the window-seat , to be sure , Jack . "
“ Oh , ” he answeredanswer, in a very pleasing way and with an assumed air of mistake , “ I thoughtthinkyou did . ”
The captain was on the point of making an angry reply , but , thinkingthinkbetter of it , turnedturnon his heel and black and scowling , strodestrideaft .
He thoughtthinkhis face must be white because it felt so cool .
He wincedwincea little , truly , at the thoughtthinkthat Waymarsh might be already at Chester ; he reflectedreflectthat , should he have to describe himself there as having " got in " so early , it would be difficult to make the interval look particularly eager ; but he was like a man who , elatedly finding in his pocket more money than usual , handles it a while and idly and pleasantly chinks it before addressing himself to the business of spending .
For , you see , so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately , that Alice had begun to thinkthinkthat very few things indeed were really impossible .
CHAPTER I THE CONSUL ’S YARN A week had passed since the funeralfuneralof my poor boy Harry , and one evening I was in my room walkingwalkup and down and thinkingthink, when there was a ringringat the outer door .
No one took the trouble to grunt even ; and presently he saidsay, very slow -- “ I was thinkingthinkof very old times , when the Romans first came here , nineteen hundred years ago -- the other day ... .
CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tiredtiredof sitting by her sister on the bank , and of having nothing to do : once or twice she had peepedpeepinto the book her sister was readingread, but it had no pictures or conversations in it , ‘ and what is the use of a book , ’ thoughtthinkAlice ‘ without pictures or conversations ? ’
While he was thinkingthinkof something else to say , the young lady turnedturnto the little boy again .
It was this deficiency , I consideredconsider, while running over in thoughtthinkthe perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people , and while speculatingspeculateupon the possible influence which the one , in the long lapse of centuries , might have exercised upon the other -- it was this deficiency , perhaps , of collateral issue , and the consequent undeviating transmission , from sire to son , of the patrimony with the name , which had , at length , so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the " House of Usher " -- an appellation which seemed to include , in the minds of the peasantry who used it , both the family and the family mansion .