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He had left her standing in the court, to be a first prey of the assailants, whether Capuans or Carthaginians, and she reasoned that it would be better, or at least quicker, to unbar the door before it should be broken in: she was wondering, in fact, at the forbearance that had preserved it thus far from more violent assault. Calavius had been gone some time.
"Nay," said the novice, looking up with some surprise in her countenance; "nay, even were I so weak, escape now is impossible. What hand could unbar the gates of the convent?" "Mine!" cried the monk, with impetuosity. "Yes, I have that power. In all Spain, but one man can save thee, and I am he." "You!" faltered the novice, gazing at her strange visitor with mingled astonishment and alarm.
Since thou sayest there is but one man and we are three, it might be unlucky to turn him from our doors. May I then open to him? Jesus asked, and he began to unbar the great door, and a heavy, thick-set man, weary of limb and mind, staggered into the gallery, and stood looking from one to the other, as if trying to guess which of the three would be most likely to welcome him.
"She wants me to unbar the window," thought Peter, "but I won't, not I!" He peeped again, and the tears were still there, or another two had taken their place. "She's awfully fond of Wendy," he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: "I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady."
I ride under orders of the schalischim," said the Roman, again speaking low and rapidly. The officer turned and shouted to his men, and several ran to unbar the gate with such speed as their condition warranted. The other occupants of the guard-house were now grouped at the door, five men, half armed, and two dishevelled women with painted faces and flower-embroidered pallas.
A woman who is driven to visit her husband like a thief in the night and then sent away like a street dog left to get up, unbolt, unbar, and find her way out of the house as she best may is justified in doing anything.
The iron-barred outer doors of this vestibule were securely bolted, and the porter hung back in affright at the order to unlock them. "Your Highness, the people are raving mad," he said, flinging himself on his knees. Odo turned impatiently to his escort. "Unbar the doors, gentlemen," he said.
At other times tree-trunks, heaped upon one another, completely closed a bayou. Then think what trouble there was to unbar that gate and pass through. And, to make all complete, troops of hungry alligators clambered upon the sides of our flatboat with jaws open to devour us. There was much outcry; I fled, Alix fled with me, Suzanne laughed. But our men were always ready for them with their guns.
"Outlaws do, when it pays," Anse shot out grimly. But on a second hail from the rooftop sentry post Rennie swung the rifle over his arm and faced the outer gate of the patio. "Unbar, Francisco!" he called in Spanish. One leaf of the massive door folded back to allow in a small party of horsemen. One saddled but riderless mount galloped along with the rest.
"It is Yossof," Anne exclaimed. "How comes he here alone? Where is my mother, Yossof?" I started as I heard that. Her mother was alive, then, though Anne had said she could not remember her, and Treherne had told me she died soon after her arrest, more than twenty years back. "She is within and safe; Natalya is with her," came Yossof's quavering voice, as he labored to unbar the gates.
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