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And all of the remaining houses on the deserted street, desolated as though after a pestilence, were closed as well. With a contracting heart Lichonin pulled the bell-handle. A maid, barefooted, with skirt caught up, with a wet rag in her hand, with face striped from dirt, answered the bell she had just been washing the floor. "I'd like to see Jennka," timidly requested Lichonin.
'And that should remind me, Mr. Pleydell, said Julia, 'to offer you tea; that is, supposing you have dined. 'Anything, Miss Mannering, from your hands, answered the gallant jurisconsult; 'yes, I have dined; that is to say, as people dine at a Scotch inn. 'And that is indifferently enough, said the Colonel, with his hand upon the bell-handle; 'give me leave to order something.
They walked up the great moss-grown steps to the hall-door, and a foreign attendant, with earrings and a gold-laced cap, pulled strenuously at the great bell-handle at the cracked and sculptured gate. The bell was heard clanging loudly through the vast gloomy mansion. Steps resounded presently upon the marble pavement of the hall within; and the doors opened, and finally Mrs.
A winding, narrow stone stair, another length or two of corridor, and his guide's shuffling footsteps paused beside a low iron-studded door let into the solid stone. De Batz dismissed his ill-clothed guide and pulled the iron bell-handle which hung beside the door.
There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs. Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles.
"I will stand aside presently and let you go as far as the doors will let you. But just now you must listen to me." "I will not listen. I will call the servants," she said, pulling a bell-handle which she had found beside the mantelpiece. "Ring as much as you please. Nobody will come. The bell-wire has been cut." "Then I will call. Somebody must hear." "My man, Stevens, may hear, perhaps.
"Ichabod," he said, with a short laugh; and cautiously laid bold of the dangling bell-handle which had summoned the porter to open to a Queen in those gay days when Marie Antoinette light-heartedly pushed a falling monarchy down the incline. The great gate was not opened in response, but a small side door, deep-sunken in the thickness of the wall.
Over at Hilton's warehouse in Ridgeville t'other day I heard some cotton-buyers talkin' about men that had riz fast an' the underhanded tricks sech chaps use to hoodwink simple folks, an' they said Dick Mostyn capped the stack. Accordin' to them, he " "I don't believe a word of it!" Dolly stood up and angrily grasped the bell-handle. "It's not true. It's a meddlesome lie. They are jealous.
Sperver had pulled up before a deep gateway between two towers, barred in by an iron grating. "Here we are," he cried, throwing the reins on the horses' necks. He laid hold of the deer's-foot bell-handle, and the clear sound of a bell broke the stillness.
"It is hard enough work to sow and reap and thresh wheat in hot weather like this without sweatin' over fifteen able-bodied men that are jowerin' about a pile no bigger'n that." Dolly glanced at the round rosewood clock on the plastered wall and reached for the bell-handle. "My time's up," she said. "I wish I could stop my ears with cotton.
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