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Then when you tapped at the window I thought it had come again." "That what had come again?" "The devil, sir, for all I know. It was at the window." "What was at the window, and when?" "It was just about two hours ago. The light was just fading. I was sitting reading in the chair. I don't know what made me look up, but there was a face looking in at me through the lower pane.
Ad rub uds too, added Barney. 'Frob the cuttry, but subthig in your way, or I'b bistaked. Fagin appeared to receive this communication with great interest. Mounting a stool, he cautiously applied his eye to the pane of glass, from which secret post he could see Mr.
Then she lay down on an old sack and slept for a while. And just before the roosters began to crow she had found a broken pane in a cellar window. "What luck!" said Miss Kitty under her breath. And very silently she slipped through the opening and stole away. BY SUNRISE Miss Kitty Cat had trotted at least a mile along the road that passed the peddler's house.
He said no more, but approaching the house, began to test such windows as he could reach. He finally broke in a pane and released the latch; after that, entrance was easy. Yet after he had opened the way for her and she had stepped into the dim interior, he felt loth to leave her. Duty called him away.
But already the window had slammed-to, and through the dark pane nothing could be seen, no trace of white. Sanin went home without his hat.... He did not even notice that he had lost it. It was quite morning when he fell asleep. And no wonder!
When it lifted, the ship was creeping under the headland towards the open sea, but the boat was gone. Mrs. Tucker in vain rubbed the pane with her handkerchief; it had vanished.
Some locks of her luxuriant hair had come loose and showed below the shawl on her right shoulder. Her face looked weary and careworn, but her eyes glowed under her frowning brows. She went up to the window again and pressed her burning forehead against the cold pane. The door opened and Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch came in. "I've sent a messenger on horseback," he said.
Twenty-five rubles. The officer commanding the police of the quarter. The Russian house-spirit. This "lubber fiend" is frequently the popular name of the nightmare. The "was-ist-das," a single pane of glass fixed in a frame, to admit of its being opened, very necessary in a climate where double casements are fixed during eight months out of the year. "The Dog-Star rages!"
He almost smashed a pane of glass with his shoulder as he missed the door. He was in a state of absolute drunkenness, with his teeth clinched and his nose inflamed. And Gervaise at once recognised the "vitriol" of the "Assommoir" in the poisoned blood which made his skin quite pale.
At once he saw that she was strangely agitated. Before she had switched on the light he realised it. With a click the light was on. Markovitch had intended to open his door and go out to her, smiling. He saw at once that she was waiting for some one.... He stood, trembling, on tiptoe, his face pressed against the glass of the pane. Lawrence came in.
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