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"Tell her we will find out what it means," he answered kindly, drawing me rapidly away. By this time Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong were aroused, and I could hear the slow and hesitating tones of the former in the passage behind us. "Let us hasten," whispered Sinclair, "Our eyes must be the first to see what lies behind that partly-opened door." I shivered. The door he had designated was Dorothy's.
Suddenly he gave a smothered explanation; tore the sheet once, and started up, took a step toward the fire. "Stop!" The voice was John Steele's; he stood now next to the partly-opened drawer, in his hand that which had been concealed there, something bright, shining. Lord Ronsdale wheeled, looked at the weapon and into the eyes behind it.
I instinctively picked up the ruler from the table, and Waterford took my arm and motioned me close to the wall beside him. Another creak came presently and then another. Evidently some one was coming down the stairs cautiously, and in the dark too, for we saw no glimmer of a light through the partly-opened door.
Here she walked and looked about for a long time till an excellent opportunity offered itself of seeing how affairs progressed in the dining-room. Through the partly-opened door there became visible a sideboard which first attracted her attention by its richness.
In order to beguile the time while waiting for the train, Freya took from her handbag a gold cigarette-case and the light smoke of Egyptian tobacco charged with opium whirled among the shafts of sunlight from the partly-opened windows.
He would have let go when iron fingers closed on his wrists, and after that he remembered no more. He awoke in a berth in a fo'castle, and it was daylight. Through a partly-opened hatch he could see the fine spray that came over the side of the yacht. Amid misty particles touched by the sun shone a tiny segment of rainbow. This Mr.
Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects. To think of her was to get good-humoured; to speak of her was to raise the image of a dried Normandy pippin. "Stop your scrubbing a moment," said Bathsheba through the door to her.
He saw only the Sabbath-sealed cupboards, the cold white china on the dresser, and the flicker of the candle on the partly-opened glass transom above the door. "As you wish," he said, with quiet sadness. "I will go now, and leave the town to-night; but" his voice struck its old imperative note "this shall not end here, Lulu.
Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing- brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects. To think of her was to get good-humoured; to speak of her was to raise the image of a dried Normandy pippin. "Stop your scrubbing a moment." said Bathsheba through the door to her.
And he remembered the garden hat with the orange band. Half-way back she set down her load, straightened her back, and glanced at the upper part of the house. The sight of the partly-opened window and the white figure now drawn back a little into the room seemed to fill her with rage.
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