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Flowers dropped from every balcony on his path; and just when he came to a broader space, where the ground was somewhat higher, and where he was in fuller view of the houses around, he paused and, uncovering, acknowledged the homage he had received, with a look a gesture which each who beheld never forgot.
I do not blame you, though, of course, it was rash, for talking with Felipe in the garden, or for spending a night with him, you on your balcony, he on his wall; but you make a plaything of life, and I am afraid that life may some day turn the tables.
'I was too sleepy to tell you last night, mamma, but I did want to do so. 'Well, then, my dear, begin at the beginning, for I could not understand your letter. 'The beginning was, mamma, that we had just come in from our walk, and we went out into the schoolroom balcony, because we could see round the corner who was coming up the drive. And we began playing at camps, with umbrellas up as tents.
On arriving, he went up through the ferns to the vestiary, left his coat and hat, and while putting on his gloves, gazed down from the balcony which Lander occupies to the ball-room below. A quadrille was in progress; a stream of willowy girls, fresh for the better part, well-dressed and exceptionally plain, were moving about the floor.
They remained in the city several days, hunted from house to house, and finally they were brought to bay at night on the roof of a palace where the Lenkenstein ladies were residing. Barto took his dagger between his teeth and dropped to the balcony of Lena's chamber. The brothers soon after found the rooftrap opened to them, and Lena and Anna conducted them to the postern-door.
I am no hero I was fully aware of the danger to which I was exposing myself; and yet I protest that I caught myself laughing under my breath, with the most outrageous inconsistency, at the instant when I began the ascent of the trellis-work. I reached the balcony over the porch in safety, depending more upon the tough vine branches than the trellis-work during my ascent.
She gave a start when she saw a scrap of paper on the balcony, lying as though flung there by accident: "Can it be a trick of Daubrecq's?" she thought, out loud. "Can that scrap of paper contain..." "No," said a voice behind her, as she put her hand on the latch. She turned and saw Daubrecq.
But nevertheless the tower is worth mounting, and no money is charged for the use of it. It is not very high, and there is a balcony at the top on which some half dozen persons may stand at ease. Here the mystery is lost, but the whole fall is seen.
Staggering and sweating, the four envoys bore their precious burden to the great porch, whence he was escorted to the balcony, upon which he stood, like a Roman of old, and, by the advice of Monsieur Souley, delivered a stunning speech, that versatile functionary translating it into Dutch.
When he left it again, the crowd followed him to the Marcolini palace, and cheered so long in front of it that the king appeared on the balcony.
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