The porter who informed her of his departure looked her over curiously, setting her thinking that he thought Mr. Ede had done well to get clear of the likes of her.
No doubt the porter was right; Ralph had gone away to escape from her, which was just as well, for what more had they to say to each other: hadn't he married Hender?
The hall portertold the page boy to take Mr. Lennox up to Mrs. Forest's rooms.
At the stage-door of the Theatre Royal a conciliatory tone of voice was mechanically assumed as he asked the porter if Mr. Jackson was in.
I then went to Munich, a beautiful city, the capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria, where there is a most noble gallery of pictures; the porter is a giant about seven feet high.
He was for years a coal porter at a wharf off the Strand.
When their faces had become indistinguishable, and the great ship had backed far out into the waters, and was headed toward the Atlantic, Georgiana turned to a porter at her elbow.
Phyllis Porter and Celia Winters were having a glorious season in society.
She could tell the porter how to recognise the car--information supplied to her by the company from whom she had hired it--and the porter brought it up for her.
She gave the porter a shilling, and sent him away.
It seems he is a sort of supernumerary shoeblack, or porter of the house.
The old man hurried to get a couple of glasses as soon as Billy exhibited the porter bottles; and while he was gone, my companion fell into an unwonted reverie, which was explained as soon as his coloured friend returned.
Both the porter and Barine's waiting-maid declared that he was drunk; they saw it when he staggered away with the companions who had waited for him in the garden outside.
The evening proved wet; but they walked home together, and partook of lobsters or oysters and porter for supper.
I obeyed, and he passed into the adjoining room, and ordered hisporter to call the ensign Ramirez.
The porter hastened to execute his commission, and in a few minutes the ensign entered.
There was a bit of cheese and bread and a tin candlestick on the table, and a little black porter in a pint pot.
Nor was the advice bad; for a porter was likely to be as plentifully fed, and as comfortably lodged, as a poet.
During some time Johnson continued to call on his patron, but after being repeatedly told by the porter that his lordship was not at home, took the hint, and ceased to present himself at the inhospitable door.
We at once decided that an army wagon should be asked for from headquarters and a party of us go to Siboney, both for Mrs. Porter and more supplies.
Addison Porter would be on the hospital ship "Relief" coming into Siboney that day.
Finding an accumulation of work at our ship, large mails from the North having arrived, it was Monday before we could return to the front, Mrs. Porter accompanying us.
It was customary during the debates at the Clifford-street Senate, for pots of porter to be introduced by way of refreshment.
Thus saying, she followed the monk to the little door at which so many garlands and wreaths had been hung, and, when it was opened, she told the porter to call together all the slaves in the house.
The porter tremblingly murmured-- "Who is this man who is not afraid of suffering?
I have not seen them go out," replied the porter in Portuguese.
The porter was tempted by a good large fee to allow the door to be kept open and the entrance lighted all night.
There a porter remembered having taken from one car to another such a caballero with a young lady such as Miguel described.
He'll go, he says, and sowl theporter of Rome gates by the ears; he will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled.
Has the porter his eyes in his head that he gives entrance to such companions?
She was upon the platform at Victoria Station, a porter asking commands for her box, before she realised what she had done.
Twenty-one--" From the other room at that moment Miss Porter called.
The grinding sweet forbade the pleasant dalliance Miss Porter could have wished with this handsome young man.
With one hand it gave Miss Porter a delectable male; with the other prevented her enjoying him.
Miss Porter in "Enquiries," home to the rattling mews and to Missus.
Like Miss Porter upon a similar occasion this boy was in great pain.
The Dolphin and Porter did similar duty on the right flank.
The Porter and Wampatuck also stayed out of range.
On the 16th of April Admiral Porter with several gunboats had passed the Vicksburg batteries, and the abandonment of De Russy now left the Red River open to him.
General Steele, operating from Arkansas, reports his force at seven thousand; and the number of gunboats given is taken from the reports of Admiral Porter to the Secretary of the Navy.
When General Banks retreated so hastily from Grand Ecore, Admiral Porter was laboring to get his fleet down to Alexandria.
On the morning of the 7th of April Admiral Porter left Grand Ecore with six gunboats and twenty transports, on which last were embarked some twenty-five hundred troops.
Whether Admiral Porter or General Banks was the more virtuous, the unhappy people of Louisiana were deprived of "cakes and ale.
From the evening of the 21st of April, when I returned to the front near Grand Ecore, to the 13th of May, the day on which Porter and Banks escaped from Alexandria, I kept him advised of the enemy's movements and condition.
Doctor's bills, gentleman-farming, twenty-one pints ofporter a week.
At that moment a porter opened the door and looked in.
I heard you tell the porter the name on your luggage, and I tracked you up the platform.
She was rather surprised and pleased at her own self-possession, as led by the porter she threaded her way up the crowded platform.
For a moment she forgot to aid the porter to look for her box, but turning her back upon the busy crowd she followed Maud with her eyes.
Come along, Margaret, theporter will take your bag.
But from the first, to Ali's vast astonishment and then to his boundless delight, Porter did not find it necessary to base his behavior upon that pursued by haughty sheiks and amirs who conversed with camel drivers.
Though they had ignored Lieutenant Porter, either because they hadn't heard him or because Porter wore the Navy uniform, the soldiers gave this officer instant obedience.
Ali finally glanced shoreward, to discover that Lieutenant Porter and his men had rigged a picket line, a long rope stretched across the pier, and they were tethering the camels to it as they were lowered and unharnessed.
The interpreter conferred with Lieutenant Porter and turned to Ali.
He did not draw any positive conclusions because Lieutenant Porter disagreed with him, saying that species had nothing to do with it and the two Bactrians merely happened to be less hardy individuals.
He tried to console himself with the thought that Lieutenant Porter was still in command and nobody would dare challenge him, but in his heart he knew that it was not so.
Back on the pier, Lieutenant Porter heaved a mighty sigh of relief.
In part, Ali was influenced by the fact that Porter was the only man on board besides Ali himself who had succeeded in winning Ben Akbar's friendship.
Gwynne Heap came onto the pier and Porter asked anxiously, "Will you see if you can find Wayne?
As the Supply lay at anchor off the Turkish coast, it was evident that Lieutenant Porter was not an authority on camels.
Not understanding a word, nevertheless Ali listened with mingled awe and admiration as Lieutenant Porter continued to speak.
Lieutenant Porter gestured to Ali and Mimico, ordering, "Go aboard the lighter and help out.
Lieutenant Porter addressed the interpreter, who conveyed the message to Ali.
Lieutenant Porter and the men who remained with him joined Mimico and made ready to help receive the camels.
Lieutenant Porter demands to know why you attacked his men.
My father scorned to go to the square to drink ale and porter with the crowd, having the election on his mind and him to vote.
It was the captain was to give the ale and the porter in the square like a true gentleman.
Most of the men, however, stuck to the barrels, the drink running in the street being ale and porter mixed, and left it to the women and the young folk to do the carrying.
When he knocked at the gate and the porter asked him what he wanted, he was a little excited and rather scared.
The porter at the castle gate grinned and flung a jest at him, but admitted him and those who followed in his train, without question.
When he reached the gate it was dark, and the porter was astonished to see him.
