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"I'll sit here with my sewing and keep you company," said Aunt Prissy. "It's an hour to candle-light." Donald tiptoed out of the room, but was back in a moment standing in the doorway and beckoning his mother; and Mrs. Scott went quietly toward him, closing the door softly behind her. "It's those girls. The ones Faith went with to the fort," Donald explained in a whisper.
Peter found a bunch of tall grass behind which she could sit up and still not be seen. So there she sat without moving for a long, long time, never once taking her eyes from Old Man Coyote and the doorway of the old house. By and by she saw Peter poke his nose out to see if the way was clear. Old Man Coyote saw him too, and began to grin.
She had no answer. As he came she turned and moved away from the door, and the old man, peering from under the flat candle flames, saw her face like wax. And he saw the boy, Christopher, in the doorway, his hands flung out, his face transfigured. "Mother! I'm here! Don't you understand?" He touched her shoulder. She turned to him, as it were, lazily. "Yes," she breathed. "I see."
Whether these tears came from a sense of the injustice being done him, from his love for the nobility, or from the strain of the position he was placed in, feeling himself surrounded by enemies, his emotion infected the assembly, the majority were touched, and Levin felt a tenderness for Snetkov. In the doorway the marshal of the province jostled against Levin.
Perhaps a hundred people crowded through the doorway into the palace; the others stood outside on the steps and on the terrace below waiting. Hardly more than five minutes went by when a man appeared on the palace roof. He advanced to the parapet with several others standing respectfully behind him. "Targo!" murmured Oteo.
Someone was shutting an umbrella in the doorway, preparatory to entering the shop. It was her brother, splashed and wet to the knees, but with a glowing face, who pushed his way in, and confronted her with a broad grin.
'Can you send some one round with me for the medicine? he asked in the doorway. 'Happen you'll come yourself, John? There was a momentary hesitation. 'I'll come, doctor, said Rose. 'And then you can give me all your instructions. Mother must stay here. She completely ignored her father. 'Do, my dear; come by all means. And the doctor beamed again suddenly with the maximum of cheerfulness.
Entering the room before him, he crossed to the small group clustered in its further doorway. There were several empty chairs in sight; but he passed around them all to a dark and inconspicuous corner, from which, without effort, he could take in every room on that floor from the large parlour in which the casket stood, to the remotest region of the servants' hall.
"You're not a-going to do anything of the kind," cried Mrs. Jenney from the doorway. "Supper's all ready, and you're going to walk right in." "Oh, I really have to go," Victoria exclaimed. "Now I know it ain't as grand as you'd get at home," said Mr. Jenney. "It ain't what we'd give you, Miss Victoria, that's only simple home fare, it's what you'd give us.
There was a large arched doorway, surmounted by a V-shaped shelter roofed with tiles, and at the side of this a smaller door for everyday use. At the further end of the courtyard stood the house with its pointed roof and its gables covered with ivy.
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