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She put on a long cloak which reached nearly to her feet, a little cap of blue cloth was secured over her mass of curling hair, and then going cautiously across the room, she took the key out of the lock, unfastened the door, shut it behind her, locked it from the outside, put the key in her pocket, and ran downstairs. "If the servants or Alice come up they will think I have gone to bed.
People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about. Here, Hedwig, take my hat and bring me some iced tea and next time your Fraulein hides in the orchard you can find her and not send me there." Blowing somewhat from her walk, Miss Gibbie dropped in a chair in the hall, unfastened the strings of her broad-brimmed hat and handed it to Hedwig.
As a result of this certainty, the carriage door was opened, the two women alighted, and after having once more raised their eyes to a strip of wood, some six or eight feet long by two broad, which was nailed above the windows of the second storey, and bore the inscription, "Madame Voison, midwife," stole quickly into a passage, the door of which was unfastened, and in which there was just so much light as enabled persons passing in or out to find their way along the narrow winding stair that led from the ground floor to the fifth story.
His clothing of good material and well tailored was disgustingly soiled and neglected; the shoes thickly coated with dried mud, and the once-white shirt, slovenly unfastened at the throat, without collar or tie.
Redwood unfastened the strings and unrolled the bundle. His eyes lighted up with satisfaction as he disclosed the contents a lady's cloak. Mrs. McCarty looked surprised. "Why, it's a lady's cloak," she said, "and a very handsome one. What would Mr. Ropes want of such a thing as that?" "Perhaps he intended to make you a present of it." "No, he can't afford to make such present."
Ostap immediately unfastened a silken cord which the cornet carried at his saddle bow to bind prisoners, and having with it bound him hand and foot, attached the cord to his saddle and dragged him across the field, calling on all the Cossacks of the Oumansky kuren to come and render the last honours to their hetman.
He unfastened the half-glass door, opened it, and went out into the quadrangular garden, the quaint old-fashioned garden, where the flower-beds were primly dotted on the smooth grass-plot, in the centre of which there was a marble basin, and the machinery of a little fountain that had never played within the memory of living man. "Go back for the lamp, Margaret," Joseph Wilmot whispered.
Not two minutes after Obed's "comforter" had been thrown around the great cake a beautiful calf, the pride of Mistress Elliott's heart, and which was usually kept tied in the barn just beyond the back kitchen, somehow unfastened her rope and came strolling along past the open back door.
It had been barely a minute since he had vaulted the back fence. It was hardly a quarter of a minute more before the cumbersome lock of the front door was unfastened, and the door itself pulled imperceptibly ajar.
The Marquis de Bruyeres watched him with great satisfaction, auguring good things for their side from his quiet sang-froid. Vallombreuse immediately threw off his cloak and hat, and unfastened his pourpoint, in which he was closely imitated by de Sigognac.
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