When they did so they found the three lower rows of
benches already occupied; but being anxious not to be too conspicuous, all, with the exception of Porthos, who had a fancy to display his red doublet, were quite satisfied with their places, the more so as chance had brought them to the centre of their row, so that they were exactly opposite the arm-chair prepared for the royal prisoner.
He set his face down this toward Madison Square, for the homing instinct survives even when the home is a park
bench.
Let us sit on this
bench. If you pay no attention to her, she will come of her own accord to examine you."
He raised his eyes to the
bench, thence to the jury-boxes, the bar, and the crowd without, meeting everywhere looks fastened on himself.
He sighed and pressed on the
bench with both hands to raise himself.
The others returned, the room filled again,
benches were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
They have to be humoured; wait--" He banged the hand that held the pen against the back of the
bench. "It's like jerking down the mercury in a thermometer: just a trick.
"Calot!" he snapped, and then his clenched fist landed beneath the other's chin, lifting him high into the air and depositing him in a crumpled heap within the centre of the pimalia bush beside the ersite
bench.
And as the Earl of Buckingham glanced behind him he overturned the
bench upon which he sat, in his effort to gain his feet; for My Lord Earl of Buckingham had a guilty conscience.
He ran into the storeroom and brought out a gaudily painted harmonica, sat down on a
bench, and spreading his fat legs apart began to play like a whole band.
The night was nearly spent; Ma'ame Pelagie had glided from the
bench upon which she had rested, and for hours lay prone upon the stone flagging, motionless.
"It's like this, do you see: two sit on a bench-- they're the passengers; and one stands up straight on the
bench. And all are harnessed to it by their arms or by their belts, and they run through all the rooms--the doors are left open beforehand.
