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The wiry little cock-eyed waiter rushed off, with his napkin over his shoulder, as he uttered the last words; and, wondering what had caused him to break off so unexpectedly in the middle of his yarn, apparently just when he was approaching the most interesting part of it, I turned my head and saw mother and Dad were within the coffee-room, having entered the doorway just behind me.
It was a night of much moment to them all, and the two men ate their dinner in silence, each considering what the coming of the strangers might mean to him. As he was leaving the room MacWilliams stopped and hovered uncertainly in the doorway. "Are you going to get yourself into a dress-suit to-night?" he asked. Clay said that he thought he would; he wanted to feel quite clean once more.
A sinewy hand appeared, interposed, released; for an instant the dark, handsome face of Guise looked through the doorway. It was gone as soon as seen; it was there a second only. But more than one recognised it, and wondered. For was not the young Duke in evil odour with the King by reason of the attack on the Admiral?
Greeting the man at the open window as he passed, Willard Holmes dismounted at the entrance of the building and, going first to the water tank, soon appeared in the doorway of the Manager's room. The engineer's clothes from boots to Stetson were covered with dust and his face was deeply bronzed by the months in the open air. Turning from the window Mr. Burk held out the box of cigars.
Do you know that the men have already been paraded, and that when required for your guard, you were not to be found?" "The fatigues of the night, Captain Headley," returned the young officer, with some hesitation of manner; "the incessant watching surely there " "I knew he had not been out of the Fort. Courage, Maria! was audible to the men who were nearest to the speaker, from Elmsley's doorway.
The ticket-agent had turned his back and was looking over some papers and grumbling to himself, so that Betty could no longer hear what he was pleased to say. As she left the window an elderly man, whose face was very familiar, was standing in the doorway. "Well, ma'am, you an' I 'pear to have got left. Tideshead, you said, if I rightly understood?"
On each of the gate-posts a crouching lion was outlined dimly against the fainting light, and, by crossing the street, we could see the upper line of a latticed gallery under the low roof. We took our stand within the empty doorway of a blackened house, nearly opposite, and there we waited, Nick murmuring all sorts of ridiculous things in my ear.
It remained above the edge of the step staring at them with a look of crafty triumph, a very image of intrigue. Then it disappeared silently. Wogan remembered the voice of the man who had spurred past the doorway of the inn at Ala. He knew now why he had thought to recognise it. The exclamation had been one of anger, because he had seen Clementina and himself in Italy?
I stood awkwardly by, the tears streaming down my cheeks, but they were tears of joy. Mother, who was standing in the kitchen doorway with her apron to her eyes, came and put her arm about him, and said something, very gently, which I did not understand. Then she kissed me several times. I shall never forget the happiness of that hour.
It was quite dark, and as they passed up Market Hill called Ghost Lane because of the Good Little People who made it their highway Dormy caught hold of Ranulph's coat and trotted along beside him. As they went, tokens of the life within came out to them through doorway and window.
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