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But this was the close to that chapter. The hour of six went by. Between six and seven came a sound of knocker and bell at the street-door. Danvers rushed into the sitting-room to announce that it was Mr. Redworth. Before a word could be mustered, Redworth was in the room. He said: 'You must come with me at once!
On the wall to the left of the door was the electric bell and the directions for using it, and tacked upon the door itself a card as to the hours for meals, the rules of the hotel, and the extract of the code defining the liabilities of innkeepers, all printed in bright red. Everything was clean, defiantly, aggressively clean, and there was a clean smell of new soap in the air.
I went away very sadly and sorrowfully, thinking that his affection for me was not very great, as he did not give the least attention to my complaints. In short, I went to bed. "He will go to bed too very soon," I said to myself, "he will call for his posset and he will be obliged to get up to see why I do not bring it to him." Indeed, about an hour after, I heard his bell.
He hailed a passing cab, and put Peter into it. Then he gave Peter's office address, and also got in. He was fined the next day for being off his beat "without adequate reasons," but he never told where he had been. When they reached the building, he helped Peter into the elevator. From there he helped him to his door. He rang the bell, but no answer came.
When at his induction he was shut into Bemerton Church, being left there alone to toll the bell, as the Law requires him, he staid so much longer than an ordinary time, before he returned to those friends that staid expecting him at the Church-door, that his friend Mr.
I worship my country, my people, my city when I hear the big bell in it and when I look up to where the tower is in that still place like a sea look up to where that little white country belfry sits in the light, in the dark above the vast and roaring city!
"That's Uncle Billy's mill out thar." "Why, so it is," said Hale smiling. "That's fine." The school-house, to June's wonder, had shingles on the OUTSIDE around all the walls from roof to foundation, and a big bell hung on top of it under a little shingled roof of its own.
Miss Bell told it in confidence, and with mighty triumph over Lovelace, to Miss Lloyd, who is at present her favourite, though as much you admirer as ever.
'Instead of keeping to the high road, I struck out cross-country. It was only this morning that I heard of the unfortunate man's untimely end. 'You didn't meet anyone likely to have laid him out? 'No! I met no one. I felt too ill to notice passers-by, but the ride did me good, and I feel much better this morning. 'You don't look better, said Bell, with another searching glance.
By this time perhaps a dozen girls had entered, and, as the clang of the third bell echoed through the school, an alert little man with a thin, sensitive face and timid brown eyes, bustled into the room and carefully closed the door.
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