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In the dungeon's gloom, the living grave of hope, joy, and fame, the recognition would take place. With what feelings would the poor, blasted criminal behold the noble boy, on whom he had never bestowed one parental care, coming like an angel, if not to unbar his prison doors, to unlock for him the golden gates of heaven!
So instead of having to remove the whole chain, each clasping by a metal hand, its neighbor, she had but to unbar the initial panel, coax it noiselessly apart just far enough to emit a not too bulky form, and then the night would be hers. There had been in the girl's life so little need of cunning or of strategy that her innocent adventure now brought a disturbing sense of crime.
I learnt his olfactory nerves were somewhat delicate, and whenever I heard the doors unbar, I took care to make a stir in my night-table. This made him give back, and at length he would come no farther than the door. Such are the hard expedients of a poor unhappy prisoner!
"The time is not yet up," returned Brian, beginning to unbar the door, and he laughed at the mocking voice. "The storm is over, master, or will be by this night." "Too late now, Turlough." Brian and the old man stood in the courtyard, while the Dark Master was seeing to horses being made ready for them.
The man began to unbar the door, and stopped, struck by a fresh doubt. "You are not of our people," he said; "you speak Portuguese like a cursed Englishman." "No, I should hope not; I am a 'cursed Englishman, that is half son of an English lord and a French creole, born in the Mauritius at your service, and let me ask you to be a little more civil, for cross-bred dogs are fierce."
The most I can say just now, my poor girl, is most heartily to curse the day you or I ever saw this bit of fresh water." "But, uncle, is your life in danger do you think I ought to open the door?" "A round turn and two half-hitches make a fast belay; and I would counsel no one who is out of the hands of these devils to unbar or unfasten anything in order to fall into them.
"Open, Isabel, it is Zicci," said the voice again. And why did the actress feel fear no more, and why did that virgin hand unbar the door to admit, without a scruple or, a doubt, at that late hour, the visit of the fairest cavalier of Naples? I know not; but Zicci had become her destiny, and she obeyed the voice of her preserver as if it were the command of Fate.
Soon the tones of a man's voice could be heard exclaiming: "A good evening to thee, Mistress Elinor. It is but fitting that an angel should unbar the door of Paradise, for I deem the house naught else wherein thou dwellest."
The clumping staff of my heavy crucifix drew hollow echoes from the flagstones. In the deep sort of cave behind us, lit by a dim lanthorn, the negroes waited to unbar the doors. Castro himself began to mutter over his beads. Suddenly he said: "It is the last time I shall stand here. Now, there is not any more a place for me on the earth."
"Open, Isabel, it is Zicci," said the voice again. And why did the actress feel fear no more, and why did that virgin hand unbar the door to admit, without a scruple or, a doubt, at that late hour, the visit of the fairest cavalier of Naples? I know not; but Zicci had become her destiny, and she obeyed the voice of her preserver as if it were the command of Fate.
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