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He heard his mother moving about, and the indistinct voice of a man from the guest-room beyond. "The vine again!" thought Andy. But the ascent in the gown was difficult. "A maid's progress is bitter hard!" smiled he, and he thought tenderly of Ruth. The little loft-room seemed oddly changed to Andy. He looked about. Everything was the same, and yet "It is that voice below-stairs," muttered he.
The women had kept their places near the door, where, as will be remembered, they noticed a pressure, as if someone was trying to shove it open. Light-footed as was the Comanche, his weight was too great, and his descent too sudden, for him to keep the knowledge from the women below-stairs.
Presently the noise below-stairs diminished, and the priest's voice rose in the office, vibrating and touching. The two women sank to their knees, the doctor followed, his eyes still fixed on the dying man. Presently, however, Charley did the same; for something penetrating and reasonable in the devotion touched him. All at once Louis Trudel opened his eyes.
Zowie! how quick they got a move on, every single man but the one lone dickey we found knocked out down below-stairs. Ev'rything movin' along like silk who cares whether school keeps or not, with us boys on the top wave o' success." Then he concluded to stop premature boasting, knowing very well that as in a game of baseball nothing is settled until the last man has been put out.
A man who cleaned knives, it appeared, could not possibly do anything else, and for several days the domestic arrangements below-stairs had been disturbed by a knotty question as to whose business it was to answer "my lord's bell". Now my lord was what his servants called rather "a arbitrary gentleman", seeming, indeed, to entertain the preposterous notion that these were paid their wages in consideration of doing as they were bid.
Doubtless someunusually absorbing incident had detained the child below-stairs; thus only could her absence be explained. A third ring produced no response, and Lizzie, full of dawning fears, drew back to look up at the shabby, blistered house. She saw that the studio shutters stood wide, and then noticed, without surprise, that Mrs. Deering's were still unopened. No doubt Mrs.
His dwelling, in no way impressive outside, amidst the environing quaintness, stood at the corner of a narrow side-hill street that sloped cityward; and within it was stripped bare of all the furniture of life below-stairs, and above was none the cozier for the stiff appointment of a show-house.
I had scarcely recovered myself from this attack, when up came Betty Miss, said she, your company is desired below-stairs in your own parlour. By whom, Betty? How can I tell, Miss? perhaps by your sister, perhaps by your brother I know they wont' come up stairs to your apartment again. Is Mr. Solmes gone, Betty? I believe he is, Miss Would you have him sent for back? said the bold creature.
Mr. Wesley had left the key in the lock after turning it on the outside: and still whispering to her sister, Molly wrenched it round, little by little. No one stirred below-stairs: no one answered within. She pushed the door open an inch or two, then wider, pausing as it creaked.
I slept lightly, left my door ajar to catch the slightest sound, even made stealthy tours of the house below-stairs while everybody dreamed in their beds. But I discovered nothing; the doors were always locked; I neither saw the housekeeper again in unreasonable times and places, nor heard a footstep in the passages and halls. The Noise was never once repeated.
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