She contented content herself by leaning lean back in her chair , merely playing play with the food on her plate , and looking grave and absent ; while all around her were enjoying enjoy the mots mot of Mr. Grey , the gentleman who always took the bottom of the table at Mrs. Shaw 's dinner parties , and asked Edith to give them some music in the drawing-room .

Newland Archer , leaning lean against the wall at the back of the club box , turned turn his eyes from the stage and scanned scan the opposite side of the house .

He kept this suspended suspend while the newcomer sat sit down , and Mrs. Hilbery deftly joined join the severed parts by leaning lean towards him and remarking remark : “ Now , what would you do if you were married to an engineer , and had to live in Manchester , Mr. Denham ? ”

But Mrs. Hilbery was immediately sensitive to any silence in the drawing-room , as of a dumb note in a sonorous scale , and leaning lean across the table she observed observe , in the curiously tentative detached manner which always gave her phrases the likeness of butterflies flaunting from one sunny spot to another , “ D’you know , Mr. Denham , you remind me so much of dear Mr. Ruskin ... .

When they reached reach the cottage , the two seated seat themselves with some appearance of fatigue upon the upper step of the porch , facing face each other , each leaning lean against a supporting post .