"Upstairs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the conversation turned from her affairs and crept upstairs. So this was the reason of Don's silence. Someone else had her place in his heart. She realised with a sharp pang that it was her own fault. She had trifled with his love, because the minister's ...
— Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith
... summoned the handmaid and ascertained that Miss Sophy Wackles had indeed left the letter with her own hands; and that she had come accompanied, for decorum's sake no doubt, by a younger Miss Wackles; and that on learning that Mr Swiveller was at home and being requested to walk upstairs, she was extremely shocked and professed that she would rather die. Mr Swiveller heard this account with a degree of admiration not altogether consistent with the project in which he had just concurred, but his friend attached very little importance to his behavior ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... still sitting upstairs in Committee Room No. 15, debating question of adjournment. We hear them occasionally through open doors and down long corridor. Once ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 13, 1890 • Various
... tobacco came from!" he sang out. "Just come outside and I'll show you. It's upstairs in the ...
— The Tale of Rusty Wren • Arthur Scott Bailey
... much more, was from her very last lover, Lord Mountclere's valet, who had been taken in hand directly she had convinced herself of Joey's hopeless youthfulness. The missive sent Mrs. Menlove's spirits soaring like spring larks; she flew upstairs in answer to the bell with a joyful, triumphant look, which the illuminated figure of Mrs. Doncastle in her dressing-room could not quite repress. One could almost forgive Menlove her arts when so modest a result brought such ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
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