However , he was not much disconcerted at that ; for when he had takentakea mouthful of bread and butter and was about to swallow a gulp of tea , the humour of the thing burstburstupon him with such irresistible force , that he was obliged to jumpjumpup from the table , and rushrushsnortingsnortand chokingchokefrom the room ; and a minute after , was heardhearscreamingscreamin fearful agony in the garden .
From his trousers pockets he tooktakea fistful of crumpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin , which he piledpileon the bureau indiscriminately with keys , knife , handkerchief , and whatever else happened to be in his pockets .
Out of the dusk her violin tooktakeup the organ theme , and the candle-light revealedrevealher in a straight golden frock , her arm archedarchto the bow , her lips serious .
All these he had takentakeand , with the help of the gilt rout chairs , light and easy to move , had mademakean elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurkinglurkbehind the curtains .
She rappedrapdown the mustard pot on the table , and then she noticednoticethe overcoat and hat had been takentakeoff and putputover a chair in front of the fire , and a pair of wet boots threatenedthreatenrust to her steel fender .
“ Feel pretty sick , Thea ? ” he askedaskas he tooktakeout his thermometer .
Of course we tooktakethe place ; it was not my idea of comfort , being much too large and sufficiently isolated to make the servant question serious .
He tooktakehis cigar out of his mouth and heldholdthe wet end between the fingers of his woolen glove .
Cameron camecomeforth out of the shadow and greetedgreethis visitor , whom he tooktakefor a prospector like himself .
The property was owned by Paul Armstrong , the president of the Traders ' Bank , who at the time we tooktakethe house was in the west with his wife and daughter , and a Doctor Walker , the Armstrong family physician .
In taking an occasional wisdom-giving stroll in Mrs. Todd ’s company , and in acting as business partner during her frequent absences , I found the July days fly fast , and it was not until I felt myself confrontedconfrontwith too great prideprideand pleasurepleasurein the displaydisplay, one night , of two dollars and twenty-seven cents which I had takentakein during the day , that I rememberedremembera long piece of writing , sadly belated now , which I was bound to do .
How they affected my aunt , nobody knew ; for immediately upon the separationseparation, she tooktakeher maiden name again , boughtbuya cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off , establishedestablishherself there as a single woman with one servant , and was understood to live secluded , ever afterwards , in an inflexible retirement .
They too , poor things , had been takentakein -- they were actually stoppingstopat Speyer -- and they rather likedlikeHelen insistinginsistthat they must fly with us to Heidelberg .
He was only once crossedcross, and that was towards the end , when my poor father was far gone in a decline that tooktakehim off .
He now tooktakethe stick from my hands and examinedexamineit for a few minutes with his naked eyes .
Early in the day Dorothea had returnedreturnfrom the infant school which she had setsetgoing in the village , and was takingtakeher usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters , bent on finishing a plan for some buildings ( a kind of work which she delighted in ) , when Celia , who had been watchingwatchher with a hesitating desire to propose something , saidsay--
Well , Judge Thatcher he tooktakeit and putputit out at interest , and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with .
The impressionimpressionI had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East ; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube , which is here of noble width and depth , tooktakeus among the traditions of Turkish rule .
A servant in waiting tooktakemy horse , and I enteredenterthe Gothic archway of the hall .