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"'Sh," he whispered. "Don't move or speak." We listened, standing together. There were undoubtedly sounds outside, some one moving about, a hand on a window-catch, and finally not particularly cautious steps at the front door. It swung open. I could hear it creak as it moved slowly on its hinges.
There are chambers excavated in the chalk that were formerly closed by wood partitions, with recesses for beds, cupboards, seats clearly the bedrooms of ladies. The grooves into which the planks were fitted can be made out. Doors were fitted into rocky rebates to move on their hinges, the hinges being round prolongations of the door frame turning in holes sunk in floor and roof.
She thought that she had lowered the light at leaving; she had certainly intended to do so. Very softly Piers opened the door. It swung noiselessly back upon its hinges, and the full light smote upon them. In the same instant a slim, white figure came calmly forward through the hall and stopped beneath the lamp. Olive Lorimer, pale, severe, with fixed, accusing eyes, stood confronting them. "Mrs.
I flung myself against the door repeatedly and tried to beat it down, but my rage was useless. The lock and the hinges held. Back I went to my porthole. "Evelyn, are you there?" "Yes," came the answer in a choked voice. "Don't do it. What are you thinking of? I'd rather die a hundred deaths than have you marry him." "I must, Jack.
So absorbed was he in his ministrations that he failed to heed the sound of excited whisperings which came to him from beyond the door. It was not until the creaking of the hinges had warned him that the door was ajar, that he looked up from his occupation.
The keeper, wakened by the creaking of the hinges, put his nose out of the window and showed himself in his night-shirt. "So our keepers sleep till this time of day!" thought the Parisian, who thought himself very knowing in rural customs.
At length the creaking hinges of the door were heard again, and, with an injunction to be sparing of speech, we were bidden to follow the animated shadow which flitted in the owl-light before us, through various winding passages.
The corners were firmly bound with steel, elaborately and richly wrought, while the locks, of which it had no less than three, and the hinges, were of a fashion and workmanship that would have attracted attention even in a warehouse of curious furniture.
But when she rode through one entrance after another with the gates torn from their hinges, crossed the moat by a mound of earth instead of the drawbridge, and rode through the open gateway, where the portcullises were wedged up in their grooves and their chains gone, into the paved court, she beheld a desolation, at sight of which her heart seemed to stand still in her bosom.
I'll send a check." "A check! You answer everything by a check! Can't you understand? Oh, there's no use explaining; you're determined you won't understand! So, let us drop the subject. Is to-night the club election?" "No, to-morrow night. But to-night will probably decide it in my mind. It practically hinges on the Meredith set if they can be talked over " "Oh, Sanford, I do hope they can!"
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