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Could it be that it was this discovery which had upset her and brought on an attack?... An attack of what? He swerved at the double into Park Road, which was a silent desert watched over by forlorn gaslamps. He saw the yellow gate. The yellow gate clanked after him. He searched in the deep shadow of the porch for the button of the night bell, and had to strike a match in order to find it.
The shop was unchanged since yesterday, except for a big bowl of asters, red, white and blue. “Three cheers for the red, white and blue,” Maida sang when she arranged them. She had been singing at intervals ever since. Suddenly the latch slipped. The bell rang. Maida jumped. Then she sat so still in her high chair that you would have thought she had turned to stone.
That doesn't explain why a man should kick his own door down when there's a bell to ring and servants to let him in and out again, too." "I have wondered," said Siward, "whether the door he might be inclined to kick down is really his own door any longer." "I, too," said Plank simply. "It may belong to a personal enemy if he has any. He could afford to have an enemy, I suppose." Siward nodded.
"I'll have his life, I'll have his life," roared the admiral. "Nay, nay, sir," said Mr. Chillingworth, catching the admiral round the waist. "My dear sir, recollect, now, if I may venture to advise you, Admiral Bell, there's a lot of that fiery hollands you know, in the next room; set firm down to that, and finish him off. I'll warrant him, he'll be quiet enough."
He'd of encouraged that any way he could if he'd knowed anything about it. That would of pleased him. I had in my mind, too, how Bonnie Bell had looked at that hired man. So I set there, not having said a word yet and not daring to. It just seemed like I couldn't tell the old man. It was getting towards night now before long and I hadn't made no break at all.
When Fanny had surveyed him, from the tip of his lit hat to his lit feet, she was content to leave him in his shadowed corner, and turned willingly to dance with Duval. The little man offered an arm to hold her, and, as he came nearer to her, his feet pressed the bottom ring of wire about her skirt, and the whole bell of flowers and frills swung backwards and stood out obliquely behind her.
On the morning of the fourth day when the gangs were once more taken out Hogarth was hardly conscious of frigid winds or agued limbs: for three days the great bell of Colmoor had not rung; and his ears were open.
So I've been at some pains to work it out on a money basis. Here is an account as full as I could make it." She handed him a paper covered with neat figures. The totals read as follows: Miss Diantha Bell, To Mr. Henderson R. Bell, Dr.
"Gie Bell a kiss frae me." The full force of this joke struck neither all at once. Sam'l began to smile at it as he turned down the school-wynd, and it came upon Henders while he was in his garden feeding his ferret. Then he slapped his legs gleefully, and explained the conceit to Will'um Byars, who went into the house and thought it over.
With the exception of the glow in the fan light over the majestic portals, the noble mansion was now as dark as Mr. Prohack's other house. He shut his lips, steeled himself, and walked round the Square to the noble mansion and audaciously rang the bell. He had to wait. He shook guiltily, as though he, and no member of his family, had sinned.
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