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It rises presently, full and strong, but every syllable rings out clear and perfect, even to the outer doors; it sinks to all but a whisper, yet each delicate articulation floats unbroken to the remotest corner of the outer aisle, till he who listens feels the word vibrating in his heart rather than in his outward ears.
She ushered the visitors into a spacious drawing-room and took their cards and a note from Judge Brackenridge, to her mistress. The guests while waiting could not fail to be impressed by what they saw around them. Walls, ceilings and doors were unique in their decorative effects. The furnishings of the apartment were elegant and sumptuous.
Max here'll go along the ladders and steady you if you swing too much. Wait a minute, though." He hurried out of doors, and returned with a light line, one end of which he made fast to the box, the other he gave to Max. "Now," he said, "you can guide it as nice as walking upstairs."
In other cases the absence of the slot and the presence of only one pivot hole show that single doors were also used. The doors always opened inwards, being folded back either against the sides of the entry itself or against the walls of the chamber.
"I was sure you wouldn't turn your own partner out of doors!" Her lips parted in the smile that he loved and though he could not speak he went toward her with outstretched arms. Passing the window, Uncle Bill stopped and stood for a second looking into the light. "Hells catoots!" he muttered gruffly, "Seems like sometimes in this world things happen as they ort."
Why, look out of that window the very birds and beasts know it, and instinctively seek shelter look at that flock of crows flying home! See how the dumb beasts come trooping toward their sheds! Capitola, you had better give up going altogether, my dear!" "There! I thought all this talk tended to keeping me within doors, but I can't stay, Mrs. Condiment! Good Mrs. Condiment, I can't!"
The smug, well-dressed men and women who were lounging there staring listlessly at the rain, glanced up with a quicker interest in life at sight of their flushed cheeks and eager eyes. They caught in them the living fire which in their own breasts was ash-covered by the years. The man at the swinging doors straightened at their approach. "Shall I get you an umbrella, sir?"
"Sir," replied the Colonel, imperturbably, "since the doors are closed, there is no one, unless it be a spirit-listener under the table, who can wire to Mademoiselle Cicogna the substance of debate. And, for my part, I do not believe in spiritual manifestations.
"If business grows worse, as I think it will, we shall last until the first bill that falls due after the doors and windows are put in." "That is precise, at least." "It will probably take us into January, or perhaps February." "But suppose that Del Ferice himself gets into trouble between now and then. If he cannot discount any more, what will happen?" "We shall fail a little sooner.
There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came. The youth who took the path that ran eastwards arrived presently at a large city, where he found everybody standing at the doors, wringing their hands and weeping bitterly. 'What is the matter? asked he, pausing and looking round.
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