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And Sunny went clattering along the great hall, past the page boys who were playing marbles with india-rubber marbles, and past the kitchen where the fires burned without crackling and the kettles never boiled over, and up the wide marble staircase, and along all the passages, until the sound of her coming even reached the King's ears.
"What is happening?" he asked on one occasion, when he found the road to the staircase absolutely barred. "The mistress's room is being prepared for her return," replied Jane, to whom the query was addressed. He started as though someone had struck him in the breast. "Coming home," he gasped, staring at the woman with dropped jaw and wondering eye. "Miss Dora's orders, sir.
"Remember I'm throwing out no bait, but I expect 'twill be value for a couple of francs." They entered the bare hall and, mounting a cold and rigid staircase, found themselves confronted by a turnstile. The Irishman was in the act of laying a two-franc piece in the hand of the custodian when the boy plucked him by the sleeve and, turning, he saw the curious eyes full of a sudden anxiety.
The exceptional minute, a mere snatch, at the tail of the others, on the huge Portland Place staircase had sufficiently enabled the girl to remind him so ready she assumed him to be of what they were to do. Time pressed if they were to do it at all. Everyone had brought gifts; his relations had brought wonders how did they still have, where did they still find, such treasures?
"My dear Kit, I've taken so many steps that I've repented! But when you're in the middle of a staircase you must inevitably continue taking steps either up or down. And if I take this one, and repent it well, at all events it will be the last step." "Not necessarily," replied Kitty drily. "Where are you wandering now?" gibed Nan. "Into the Divorce Courts or the Thames?
'Lizabeth stood for a while bending over him, smoothed the bedclothes straight, and quietly left the room. It was a law of the house to doff boots and shoes at the foot of the stairs, and her stocking'd feet scarcely raised a creak from the solid timbers. The staircase led straight down into the kitchen.
"Then I must escape by the side entrance. When he gets tired waiting, Mr. Smithers, give him La Sylphine's compliments, and let him go." She glided past the demons down a dark and winding staircase, and out into the noisy, lighted street.
He seemed in mortal fear of some "Selinski" or a name that sounded like that; and I did discover one point, that by Selinski he meant Cassavetti. When he found he had given that much away, he was so scared that I thought he was going to collapse again, as he did on the staircase. And yet he had been entrusted with a pass-key to Cassavetti's rooms! Only two items seemed perfectly clear.
I am in a room which is reached only by an interior staircase. Ask for Monsieur Camuset. Adieu; I kiss your forehead, my darling." Jacquet looked at Jules with a sort of honest terror, the sign of a true compassion, as he made his favorite exclamation in two separate and distinct tones, "The deuce! the deuce!" "That seems clear to you, doesn't it?" said Jules.
He remembered only that the conversation occurred when Barneveld was living on the Spui at the Hague, and that having been let into the house through the hall on the side of the vestibule, he had been conducted by the Advocate down a small staircase into the office.
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