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There was a shriek, only one shriek made up of eight shrieks uttered in eight different keys, a terrific screaming of terror, then a tumultuous rising from their seats, a jostling, a scrimmage and a wild rush to the door at the farther end. Chairs fell over, the men knocked the women down and walked over them.
"Pooh! no books and figures far me; give me a run of Salt Bush country, and a few thousand sheep," said Pip. "Hear! hear!" chimed in Judy. "Stoopids!" said Bunty, in a voice of great scorn. "Doesn't Mr. Gillet keep the store keys just think those currants and figs." The Picnic at Krangi-Bahtoo
"That was the day, father, when Singh left the keys in the lock of his box." "Exactly," said the Colonel. "Sit down, my boy. Well, my man, whom did this stranger ask to see?" "Please, sir, it wasn't a stranger; it was a gentleman the Doctor knew, and who came here to dinner once, and he asked for Mr Morris." "Oh!" cried Morris, springing up. "Impossible!"
That which He hath reserved for Himself are the cities of men’s hearts; and of these the loved ones of Him Who is the Sovereign Truth are, in this Day, as the keys. Please God they may, one and all, be enabled to unlock, through the power of the Most Great Name, the gates of these cities.
Rooke called to the men below to send Hayes up to No. 75 with his key directly; he then ran down to the next floor of which he had keys and opened all the doors, and said to the inmates with a ghastly attempt at cheerfulness, belied by his shaking voice, "Get up, gentlemen; there is a ball and supper going on below." He was afraid to utter the word "fire" to them.
"Rochester had them made over a year ago as a matter of convenience, for he was always forgetting his keys, and kept these at our office." "He's a queer cuss," was the detective's only comment and Clymer broke into the conversation. "Did you find any address or paper in the safe which might prove a clew, Ferguson?" he inquired.
The captain, with the placid obedience of a subaltern to his superior officer, gave him the keys and followed behind him. Sir John was waiting before the porch, admiring, in spite of the mutilation to which they had been subjected, the admirable details of the frontal. Roland opened the door and started back in astonishment.
As the marquis spoke, he led towards the twin-arched bridge over the castle-moat, then through the western gate, and along the side of the court to the Gothic bridge, on their way despatching one of his gentlemen to fetch the keys of the tower.
"And let the thief git away with 'em?" "Better git a detecertif, an' put him on the case," said Mr. Day. "Of course, you air all satisfied that nobody could ha' got into the schoolhouse but Mr. Haley?" "He an' Benny is all that has keys," said Massey. "Sure about this here janitor?" asked Uncle Jason, slowly. "Why, he was with us all the time," said Crawford, in disgust.
Cataracts and rapids were heard roaring ahead; and signs were seen far back, by help of old men's memories, which answered secretly to signs now coming forward on the eye, even as locks answer to keys. It was not wonderful that in such a haunted solitude, with such a haunted heart, Joanna should see angelic visions, and hear angelic voices.
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