I had so workedworkupon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity -- an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven , but which had reeked up from the decayed trees , and the grey wall , and the silent tarn -- a pestilent and mystic vapour , dull , sluggish , faintly discernible , and leaden-hued .
At a desk at right angles to this window , her vivid red-gold hair ripplingripplein the breezebreezefrom the river , sat the girl who had been workingworkat the typewriter .
On enteringenterthe parlour we foundfindthat honoured lady seated in her arm-chair at the fireside , workingworkaway at her knitting , according to her usual custom , when she had nothing else to do .
During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly workwork: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries , of ancient names , and blue blood , had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity .
It seems that two other office-boys in the building had workedworkupon his feelings by talestaleof injustice and oppression till they had wroughtworkhis compassion to the pitch of that frenzy .