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"I told you once about a girl who jolly nearly got me into a motor accident all through her fancying herself as a chauffeur. That was Lois Ingram. Paris girl. Same lot, isn't it?" "Oh! Was that Lois?" Lucas murmured. "Well, I'm dashed!" They returned in a hurry to the entrance-hall, fearful lest the ladies might have arrived. However, the ladies had not arrived.

My parents loved them, and so do I." At the sound of the second bell he went downstairs. How cool, spacious, and inviting everything looked! The oblong drawing-room, into which he glanced in passing, with its white wainscoting and beautiful oriel window at the end on the left of the entrance-hall, brought back many memories of his childhood and youth.

Here he would earnestly think it out, whether he would not remain for a few more years with the battery. Two families were quartered at the end of the corridor, that of Sergeant-major Schumann and that of the deputy sergeant-major, Heppner; each had a bedroom, sitting-room, and kitchen, and they shared the entrance-hall between them.

After driving a good way, we came to a battlemented tower and adjoining house, which used to be the residence of the Ranger of Woodstock Park, who held charge of the property for the King before the Duke of Marlborough possessed it. The keeper opened the door for us, and in the entrance-hall we found various things that had to do with the chase and woodland sports.

By the banks was a rustic seat, half overshadowed by the drooping boughs of a vast willow. The inside of the house was in harmony with the exterior, cottage-like, but with an unmistakable air of refinement about the rooms, even in the little entrance-hall, which was painted in Pompeian frescos. "Come and see my butterfly-cage," said Lily, whisperingly.

He waited in the palatial entrance-hall, decorated with ceilings which had been imported intact from old Italian palaces. At last the butler returned. "Mr. Ryder says will you please see him upstairs, sir?" Montague entered the elevator, and was taken to Ryder's private apartments.

"I know you too well," returned the dwarf, and walkt off with the key, casting back another look of something like mischievous delight. Meanwhile a lovely murmur approacht. Pietro went into the entrance-hall, and in glided the pale body of Crescentia, in her robe of death, still holding the crucifix in her folded hands.

It is cut up, however, into small rooms and long, chilly corridors, which detract from its good effect. The entrance-hall is beneath the central dome and occupies the whole height of the structure, but it is only about thirty-five feet square, giving a sense of smallness. Frescoes decorate the walls and ceilings.

The magistrate was ushered by the lady into a small chamber, opening out of the entrance-hall, which, in consequence of having only one small narrow window, with a clipped yew-tree before it, was extremely dark and gloomy.

As a matter of course I chose the former, but not till after a minute's hesitation as to whether I should venture to leave my room at all before I should be called. But my desire to see the baskets of flowers prevailed over everything else. I closed my door gently and hurried down. I found myself in the entrance-hall of Deepley Walls, into which I had been ushered on my arrival.