United States or São Tomé and Príncipe ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
No one thought of adding a tree or a vine to its ugly yard. Sun-smit, bare as a nose it stood at the cross-roads, receiving us through its drab door-way as it had done from the first. Its benches, hideously hacked and thick with grime, were as hard and uncomfortable as when I first saw them, and the windows remained unshaded and unwashed.
The engineer had not yet taken his clothes out of the trunk when for the third time the shrewd eyes and the crafty face of Uncle Licurgo appeared in the door-way.
The fine proportions of the lofty and spacious apartments, the rich mouldings of the ceilings, the carved chimney-pieces, and the panelled walls, all attested the former grandeur of the mansion; whilst the fragments of stained glass in the windows of the great gallery, the half-effaced coats of arms over the door-way, the faded family portraits, grim black-visaged knights, and pale shadowy ladies, or the reliques of mouldering tapestry that fluttered against the walls, and, above all, the secret chamber constructed for the priest's hiding-place in days of Protestant persecution, for in darker ages neither of the dominant churches was free from that foul stain, each of these vestiges of the manners and the history of times long gone by appealed to the imagination, and conspired to give a Mrs.
An awful, rasping voice at the door-way stilled the soft Kentucky tones and filled the room with dread. "Then you've no time to lose, young man. It's high time somebody besides me set out to help him. That other young man you call Foster lies dead at the police-station, killed by your pistol, Miss Ray, and Mr. Stuyvesant goes to jail for it."
Over the door was the sign "Water en vuur te koop." It was not necessary for the children to go inside. They could see the whole apartment through the wide-open door-way.
No one picnicked there now, for the place was said to be haunted, and the superstitious ones told each other that on stormy nights, when the wild winds were abroad, lights had been seen in the Tramp House, where a pale-faced woman, with her long, black hair streaming down her back, stood in the door-way, shrieking for help, while the cry of a child mingled with her call.
Haight sprang to his feet, and calling one of the men, ordered, "Send Maverick to me as quickly as you can." In a few moments the slouching figure of Maverick stood in the door-way. "Come in, Jim, and shut that door," said Haight, in a quick, decisive tone that Maverick knew meant business. "Jim, in what shape is the powder in those mines?
"Do what you is told an' hold you tongue, an' keep your eyes on de ground. Dems my advice," said the negro, as he resigned the bridle of the Mahdi's steed to his successor, and placed the lance of office in his hand. Just as he did so the Mahdi came out of a door-way and advanced towards them, while the negro retired and mingled with the crowd which had assembled to see the chief mount his horse.
As we passed the door-way of the ante-room in which the telephone was placed. I glanced, aside, and thereupon: "My God, Gatton!" I groaned. "Look!" He pulled up and the two of us stood, horror-stricken, rooted to the spot, looking into the little room. I have said that Coates invariably closed the windows before leaving the house, but here the window was open.
Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up toward the door of the Palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in, but durst not. He saw also, that in the door-way stood many men in armour to keep it, being resolved to do the men that would enter what hurt and mischief they could. Now was Christian somewhat in a muse.
Word Of The Day