How she longed long to get out of that dark hall , and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains , but she could not even get her head through the doorway ; ‘ and even if my head would go through , ’ thought think poor Alice , ‘ it would be of very little use without my shoulders .

He had longed long for the quiet and the coolness and the solitude of his library , apart from everybody ; and when he found find it radiant with firelight , tea set on the table , and Lucilla crying cry by the fire fire , in her new crape , the effect upon a temper by no means perfect may be imagined .