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Then Harris and I, having finished up the few things left on the table, carted out our luggage on to the doorstep, and waited for a cab. There seemed a good deal of luggage, when we put it all together.
I shall continue to benefit the world without loving it, and it will continue to accept the benefits without loving me. That's all as it should be." He drank his coffee. Then he added, rather aggressively: "I have neither time nor inclination for sentimentality." When Guildea let Father Murchison out, he followed the Father on to the doorstep and stood there for a moment.
Had I been white and strong and young enough I might have plunged through walls, gone outward into nights and days, gone into prairies, into distances gone outward to the doorstep of the house of God, gone to God's throne room with their hands in mine. What I am trying to say is this By God I made their minds flee out of them.
The moon was now growing towards the full, but it was yet low in the sky, and the night was but faintly lit, as a room is lit by a heavily shaded lamp. Sir Graham's manner lost its almost piteous bluster as he stood on the doorstep and felt the cold wind that blew from the wintry sea.
Jenkin had commenced shouting again, but Katherine paid no heed to her, for the unknown had appeared with a long, narrow trestle table, which, resting one set of legs on the doorstep, reached to the ice. But it was a perilous bridge, and Katherine knew it; only there was no other way, so the peril had to be faced. "Now run, only be ready to spring," she cried, trying to encourage him.
This was of how Aunt Margaret's lady had been taken in by an impostor an impostor who had come up, just as she was stepping out of her carriage, and pretended to have a fit on the doorstep. Aunt Margaret's lady, being a soft one, had insisted on the man coming into the hall, where he had been given all kinds of restoratives.
Next, and finally so rapidly did the malady run its course a state of coma intervened; and finally the cow, collapsing upon the doorstep of the Officers' Mess, breathed her last before any one could be found to point out to her the liberty she was taking.
Instantly the sky became covered with clouds, the fire went down, snow fell in large flakes, an icy wind howled round the mountain. Amid the fury of the storm Helen stumbled about. The pelisse failed to warm her benumbed limbs. The mother kept on waiting for her. She looked from the window, she watched from the doorstep, but her daughter came not. The hours passed slowly, but Helen did not return.
They stood on the Kendals' doorstep, in the dark, under the snow. Snow powdered the flagstone path swept ready for the New Year's party. "Think," she said, "their poor party. It would be awful of us." Roddy rang. As they waited they began to laugh again. Helpless, ruinous, agonising laughter. "Oh oh I can hear Martha coming. Do something. You might be unbuckling my snow-shoes."
True, the advent of the Turkish constitution saw Germany thrown crop and heels out of his snug place at Turkey's capital, while that comfortable old suitor, Great Britain, which had been biting his finger-nails on the doorstep, was welcomed smiling once more into the parlor. Great was the rejoicing in London when Abdul Hamid's "down-and-out" performance carried his trusted friend William along.
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