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People poured in from the lanes, the alleys, the houses; and from time to time one heard knockers banging against doors closing behind women with their gloves, who were going out to see the fête. What was most admired were two long lamp-stands covered with lanterns, that flanked a platform on which the authorities were to sit.
Lightfoot drank the milk and remarked amiably that it was "very nice though a little smoked and now, go to bed, my dear," she added kindly. "I mustn't keep you from your beauty sleep. I'm afraid I've worn you out as it is." Betty smiled and shook her head; then she placed the tray upon a chair, and went out, softly closing the door after her.
Debt, distress, sickness, and the heart-burnings of altered fortunes filled it; and when I closed it, I felt like one over all whose views in life a dark and ill-omened cloud was closing forever. Webber's I could not read; the light and cheerful raillery of a friend would have seemed, at such a time, like the cold, unfeeling sarcasm of an enemy.
Wright pulled himself to his feet, and with one shaking hand on the table felt his way around until he stood directly in front of her; he put his face close to hers and stared into her eyes, his lower lip opening and closing in silence. Then, without speaking, he began to grope about on the table for his hat and stick. "I will bid you good day," he said.
They added a protest that if any tumult should arise 'for the diversity of religion, and if any abuses should be 'violently reformed, it should not be imputed to them, who desired a reformation in matters of religion by the Authority. From that Authority, however, they, in closing somewhat inconsistently but most rightfully demanded once more the 'indifferency' which becometh God's Lieutenant.
"As I got to the conservatory I saw the door at the farther end just closing. It didn't slam there was n't a sound but simply closed quickly before my eyes. Never for a moment did it occur to me that I ought to be cautious; that closing door only made me run the faster to learn who or what had closed it.
"What are you going to do now, Elsie?" asked Caroline, closing her book. "I am going down to the drawing-room to ask Aunt Adelaide to show me how to crochet this mitten for mammy," Elsie answered. "Won't you come along, girls?" "Yes, let's take our sewing down there," said Lucy, gathering up the bits of muslin and silk, and putting them in her work-box.
I came away without closing the door, thinking of my father's words; and I'm afraid with something of the same thoughts as I should have had about some of the wild creatures I had before tried to tame, I began to long for the coming down of Mrs Morgan to prepare breakfast, meaning to get from her a good bowl of the Indian corn porridge that she regularly prepared.
He had learnt what suffering was during those last weeks. But the most silent of us all that evening was Markovitch. He sat huddled over his food and never said a word. If he looked up at all he glowered, and so soon as he had finished eating he returned to his workshop, closing the door behind him. I caught Semyonov looking at him with a pleasant, speculative smile....
"Where you goin'?" Shunk Wilson shouted. "I reckon I don't have to stay," she answered defiantly. "I ain't got no vote, an' besides my cabin's so jammed up I can't breathe." In a few minutes her husband followed. The closing of the door was the first warning the judge received of it. "Who was that?" he interrupted Pierre's narrative to ask. "Bill Peabody," somebody spoke up.
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