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Angy could not lift her eyes to him; with bowed head she was latching and unlatching the gate through which he must pass. He looked at the sun and thoughtfully made reckon of the time. There were still two hours before he could take the train which "Lef 's go set deown a spell afore " he faltered "afore we say good-by." She made no answer.
"You could find work for her in here," unlatching the gate of the Reformatory school. "She could serve humanity here just as well as if she had more more well, we'll say stamina." "Precisely what I thought of," cheerfully. "You've hit the nail on the head about her, Maria." He was a peaceable, affectionate fellow at bottom.
They ran along the path, which grew darker and darker, until they came to a gate on which was a sign printed in large letters. By peering close, Andy and Hortense could just make out the words: PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING "We have to go through, whosesoever it is," said Hortense, determinedly, and unlatching the gate through they went.
Oh! this suspense is horrible: haste, haste, some kind soul, to make the dread discovery! And he tore his hair away by handfulls. "Hark! somebody else unlatching shutters; it will be Sarah ha! she is tapping at the housekeeper's room yes, yes, and she will make it known, O terrible joy! A scream! it is Sarah's voice she has seen her dead, dead, dead; but is she indeed dead?"
"Nothing serious, you understand simply an adjustment to excuse a few minutes' delay and lend colour to our impatience." "Got you the first time," Jules replied, unlatching and raising one wing of the hood.
The darkness and storm favored his project, and in brief time he saw the light in his window. Unlatching the gate softly, and with his steps muffled by the snow that already carpeted the frozen ground, he reached the window, the blinds of which were but partially closed. His children frolicking about the room were the first objects that caught his eye, and he almost laughed aloud in his joy.
Almost at the same moment there was another flare behind the glass of the door; she heard the sound of unlatching; the flare expired. She was absolutely terror-struck now. The door opened, grating on some dirt or gravel. "Who's there?" demanded a queer, shaking voice. She could see his form. "Me!" she answered, in a harsh tone which was the expression of her dismay.
Guest's barn, and quietly unlatching the gate came nearer to examine it. It was worth examining.
"'You'd just as well come in and sit by the fire, said Mr. Wolf, unlatching the door. "But Mr. Dog and Mr. Billy-Goat thanked him kindly, and said they didn't want to carry mud into the house. They said they would just stand in the porch till the shower passed over. Then Mr. Wolf took down his fiddle, tuned it up, and began to play. In his day and time few could beat him playing the fiddle.
Quiet again, with only the clatter of hoofs on the roadway. Directly they turned a wide sweeping curve and before them appeared a wooden gateway set at the end of an avenue of elms, at the other end of which showed, dim and forbidding, a house with columns and a green roof. Joe dismounted and, unlatching the gate, turned and stood grinning at her. "So you're really goin' to try it out?"
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