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It was not till he lay upon his dying bed that he confessed it. But each evening, from that day, he would steal into the room and see to it himself that the window was left ajar. After the coffee, Mrs. Phillips proposed their adjourning to the "drawing- room" the other side of the folding doors, which had been left open. Phillips asked her to leave Joan and himself where they were.
"Yes, yes, I know," he almost seemed to be saying. "But who can tell if a helping hand, extended at the critical moment, might not have...." "Is that her? Is that her?" asked the children, the nursery door ajar. "Yes, that is 'her," said their mother, as Medora, muffled in white and with her violin-case under her arm, slipped along through the hall. "How soon is she going to play?
One whom you have met, mon maitre, in various and strange places. Myself. But who is it? Antonio. One who will come to a strange end, FOR SO IT IS WRITTEN. The most extraordinary of all the Swiss, he of Saint James, Der schatz graber. Myself. Not Benedict Mol? "Yaw, mein lieber herr," said Benedict, pushing open the door which stood ajar; "it is myself.
Besides, he was a true soldier, and disgrace itself would be to him as bad as the drum-head court-martial. I made up my mind to another course even as the perturbed "aho" which followed our glance fell from his puffing lips. "But no, holy Mother," said I, and I whispered in her ear. She opened the door and went in, leaving it ajar.
Mary Anne, who had gone out to fetch some bread, had left it ajar. He opened it and stood on the threshold looking out. The storm of the night was over, and already a milder breeze was beginning to melt the newly-fallen snow. The sun was striking cheerfully from the hill behind him upon the glistening surfaces of the distant fields; the old labourer felt a hint of spring in the air.
"Wait here," he said aloud: "I'm going to reconnoitre. Just keep the door ajar when I leave. Let anyone come in that wants to, but crack him over the skull once he gets inside." "Ay, ay, sir!" Maclean opened the door and stepped out leisurely upon the deck. Before him rose the captain's cabin, the officers' quarters, and the bridge above.
And that big inlaid box it was full of his favorite cigarettes; and the drop-light, and the green shade for the eyes, and the row of pencils sharpened as he liked them He knocked at her door. "Won't you come out here a moment?" cried he, putting it in that form because he had never adventured her intimate threshold. No answer, though the door was ajar and she must have heard.
The door of the little chapel was pushed ajar, and two men, drenched with rain, entered, carrying a sack between them. "There, M. Ledru," said the guillotinier; "there is what your heart longs for! Be in no hurry this night! We'll leave you to enjoy their society alone. Orders are not to cover them up till to-morrow, and so they'll not take cold."
The gate of heaven had been kindly left ajar, that this forlorn old creature might catch a glimpse within. All the night afterwards, he would be semi-conscious of an intangible bliss diffused through the fitful lapses of an old man's slumber, and would awake, at early dawn, with a faint thrilling of the heart-strings, as if there had been music just now wandering over them.
"Set him free," said she, in a hard voice. Lot heaved a great sigh, and rolled his eyes feebly about towards the door. "Find Margaret Bean," he began; and with that Margaret Bean, who had kept the door ajar, slid out softly, "and tell her to send her husband to Parson Fair, and Jonas Hapgood, and she must go the other way for the doctor. Tell them to come at once."
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