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"Little office" Quotes from Famous Books

... who had just perceived the ladies, were hurrying up to them. That morning they had presented themselves at the Hospital of Our Lady of Dolours, and Madame de Jonquiere had received them in a little office near the linen-room. Thereupon, apologising with smiling affability for making his request amidst such a hurly-burly, Berthaud had solicited the hand of Mademoiselle Raymonde for his cousin, Gerard. They at once felt themselves at ease, the mother, with ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... that soldiers must be paid, munitions must be bought; that for this money is necessary and the consent of bank depositors; so that if all the wealth of the world were nominally possessed by some one man in a little office he could stop the war by saying simply, "I will ...

— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells

... hotel register was an embarrassing ceremony that had not occurred to Jack until he walked up the steps and into the bare little office. Some instinct of pride made him shrink from taking a name that did not belong to him, and he was afraid to write his own in so public a place. So he ducked into the dining room whence came the muffled clatter ...

— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower

... pause at the little office in the hall, behind whose window sits Madame, busy with her knitting yet watchfully supervising all the details of the household. She chats with us freely, speaking slowly in her clear, low-toned French,—that southern French which sounds the vowels and the ...

— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix

... rides, our pleasant studies, were all broken off, every little office and attention refused, my remarks met by a chilling manner ...

— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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