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A girl filling this position should have, first, the advantage of system, and the family must keep regular hours. She must rise at six, or earlier, if necessary, open the front-door and parlor- blinds, and the dining-room windows, and then proceed to cleanse the front steps and sidewalk, polish the bell-pull, and make all tidy about the mats.
This was the entrance to the gaol, and over it a lamp was fixed, the light enabling the wretched traveller to find a bell-pull. The small wicket at last opened, and a porter appeared. Boldwood stepped forward, and said something in a low tone, when, after a delay, another man came. Boldwood entered, and the door was closed behind him, and he walked the world no more.
"As Allston had his hand on the bell-pull, the door was opened and a visitor passed out, immediately followed by a coarse-looking person with a large, shaggy head of hair, whom Allston at once took for a domestic. He accordingly enquired if Mr. Abernethy was in. "'What do you want of Mr. Abernethy? demanded this uncouth-looking person with the harshest possible Scotch accent.
Mrs. Cleveland applied her hand vigorously to a bell-pull communicating with her husband's dressing room. He made his presence in a splendid robe de chambre and a Turkish cap with a gold tassel. "This woman," said his better half, "says you owe her a thousand dollars." "Monsieur cannot deny it," said the French woman, fixing her keen black eyes on the thunder-struck Cleveland.
Her hair was very thin, and she drew it closely back from her forehead into a tiny knob like a bell-pull, leaving the brow high and dry as if the tide of hair had receded. Her lids were heavy over anxious eyes; her mouth was a bitter stroke across her face, under the small, inquiring nose.
Yet, touched as he felt in his better nature, the proletary instinct bade him try once more if her effort to get rid of him originated in pity or fear, and he muttered, "Guineas! make it guineas, miss, and I'll say 'done." "Not a shilling more, not a farthing," she answered, moving her hand as if to put it on the bell-pull.
One stroke of the bell means 'go ahead; two, 'stop; three, 'back; and four, 'go ahead as fast as possible. Leaning down through the shrouds to the officer on deck at the bell-pull, the admiral shouted, 'Four bells, eight bells, SIXTEEN BELLS! Give her all the steam you've got! The order was instantly transmitted, and the old ship seemed imbued with the admiral's spirit; and running past the "Brooklyn" and the monitors, regardless of fort, ram, gunboats, and the unseen foe beneath, dashed ahead, all alone, save for her gallant consort, the 'Metacomet."
Close to this hung a bell-pull formed of a large wooden acorn attached to a vertical rod. Somerset's application brought a woman from the porter's door, who informed him that the day before having been the weekly show-day for visitors, it was doubtful if he could be admitted now. 'Who is at home? said Somerset. 'Only Miss de Stancy, the porteress replied.
The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a glimpse of it as she drew it out. When I cried out that it was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making my excuses, escaped from the house.
She walked across the room, and rang the bell. Her ring was imperious. She stood near the bell-pull until Clara, in some trepidation, obeyed the summons. "Is Captain Bertram downstairs?" asked Beatrice. "I'll inquire, Miss Meadowsweet." "I think he is. I think you'll find him in the study. Ask him to have the goodness to come to Mrs. Bertram's room." Clara withdrew.
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