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He found to his great delight that the door was open, nothing to do but walk through. At first he was a little amazed at the sight of Virginia lying so still against the opposite wall; it occurred to him for the first time that perhaps she had been wounded in the fight. If so, it made his work all the safer. Yet she opened her eyes and gazed at him as he neared the threshold.
'For, he adds, 'you will not see me here again, as I am going to leave the temple. But I will visit you. 'And your name? I ask. 'Call me Akira, he answers. At the threshold I bow my good-bye; and they all bow very, very low, one blue-black head, three glossy heads like balls of ivory. And as I go, only Akira smiles.
On the threshold of the office he halted. "Mother," he said, and his voice was generous even to wistfulness; "Mother, that cradle thing was stunning." Mrs. Maitland nodded proudly; when he had gone, she folded his handkerchief up, and with a queer, shy gesture, slipped it into the bosom of her dress. Then she rang her bell. "Ask Mr. Ferguson to step here."
For the next two weeks nothing was thought of in the silent old Beacon Street house but the tiny little life hovering so near Death's door that twice it appeared to have slipped quite across the threshold.
The amulets of a gypsy might secure the same resetting of the psychophysical system which the most sacred symbols awaken, and even many an educated person is unable to cross the threshold of a palmist or an astrologist, or to attend the performance of a spiritist, or to sit down with a purchasable trance medium without feeling an uncanny mental state which is objectively characterized by an increased suggestibility.
Boat will be ready in a few minutes." "Ay, an' pack up all you want to carry away," cried the coxswain, crossing the threshold at that moment. "So it is all going to end suddenly like a dream!" said Eva, as she hastened to obey orders. "Home, sweet home!" murmured Nellie, trembling with joy at the prospect. "Wherever you are, my dear, the home will be sweet," said Peggy.
He should have been asleep hours ago good night, child, be sure and say your prayers," and as they crossed the threshold, she laid aside her book and blew out her light. The Major led the way to "Jane's old room" at the end of the hall, and fetched a candle from somewhere outside. "I think you'll find everything you need," he said, stooping to feel the covering on the bed.
Quarrier walked in at about a quarter-past six, savoury odours saluted him from the threshold. Glazzard had not yet arrived, but in less than five minutes a private carriage drew up to the door, and the friends hailed each other. The room prepared for them lay well apart from the bar, with its small traffic.
Maitre Laurent, in whom I have every confidence, gives me some hope this morning; and when I looked at Vallombreuse from the threshold of his room only I could see that the seal of death was no longer upon his face."
By the time it is completed, and the young man issues from the protracted ordeal, armed for the battle of life, several of the best years of his youth are passed; he is already between twenty-five and thirty years of age when he first treads on the threshold of his career. There is something essentially, almost ludicrously, modern about the creation of Norway's new king.
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