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Sagittarius, without more ado, cast aside his toga virilibus and darted out of it into another, just as Madame escorted by Mrs. Bridgeman, Lady Enid, the great Towle and the whole of the company assembled at Zoological House, appeared majestically and proceeding as an Empress in the aperture of the main doorway. When Mr.
At the side was an opening, too small to permit one to enter without stooping low. This doorway, if it may be so called, being window and chimney as well, fronted toward the south, facing the dry lakes and the mountains beyond.
At the sound of the voice the man drew aside, and through the narrow doorway was now revealed the interior of the house a straight, square room, with a few wooden seats disposed about, and at the top end an oblong table covered with a snow-white cloth.
John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuileries gardens.
You've had a narrow graze of it, but if you will mind Mrs. Yocomb you will yet die of old age. Good- night." My nurse gave me what she thought I needed, and darkened the room. But it was not so dark but that I saw a beautiful face in the doorway. "Miss Warren," I exclaimed. "It was Adah," said Mrs. Yocomb quietly; "she's been very anxious about thee." "You are all so kind.
I smiled and intimated that the desire to pass a pleasant evening was my sole reason for visiting the place. He was certain I would be pleased. The doorway of L'Abbaye was not deserted, even at the "triste" hour of ten-thirty.
Montague has just come in and has callers in the drawing-room." "Certainly," Ray answered, and was about to follow her thither, when he heard his name spoken, and turning, saw Mr. Graves beckoning to him from the doorway of the drawing-room. "Come in here," he said; "we shall need you in this business," and Ray knew that Mrs. Montague was about to be interviewed upon various matters of importance.
I could not define, could only feel it, and if Selwyn should fail me Shivering, I stood in the doorway, and as I started to go in I noticed a young fellow across the street under a tree, who seemed to be watching the house. He was evidently nervous and moved restlessly in the small circle of the shadow cast by the bare branches.
They fell half in and half out of the doorway, and the barrels rolled some distance away. Those behind them stopped panic stricken at their sudden fall. Several of them dropped their barrels and fled, while others ran round the angle of the tower again, coming in violent contact with those following them; all then hurried round behind the church. Malcolm stamped his feet with vexation.
Twenty minutes' scrambling brought me to a place where the fallen jambs of a fine doorway lay so close together that there was barely room to pass between them.
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