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The lodge-gates were closed and the deaf porter's house in darkness, so that Enid could unlock the wicket without fear of detection. She rattled the key on the bars and a figure slipped out of the darkness. "Good heavens, Ruth, is it really you?" Enid cried. "Really me, Enid. I came over on my bicycle.
Just inside that little small winder up there in the glum. He signified the jail on the cliff above. She thought of her husband and her friends. 'Yes, of course, she said; 'and how am I to proceed? He took her to the door. 'Now, do you be waiting at the little wicket in the wall, that you'll find up there in the lane, not later than one o'clock.
A small fee to the keepers would indeed procure egress and ingress at any time, through a wicket left for that purpose in the large gate; but it was of some importance, to a man so poor as Butler, to avoid even this slight pecuniary mulct; and fearing the hour of shutting the gates might be near, he made for that to which he found himself nearest, although, by doing so, he somewhat lengthened his walk homewards.
Smiling, she shrugged her shoulders, while they moved to the wicket, as if to say that it could not be helped now. Cressler, tall, lean, bearded, and stoop-shouldered, belonging to the same physical type that includes Lincoln the type of the Middle West was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls.
"Whom do you wish to see?" inquired the man, for Mary's voice had faltered. "Joseph Rushbrook, my brother," repeated Mary. At this moment the head gaoler came to the wicket. "She wishes to see her brother, young Rushbrook," said the turnkey. "Yes, certainly," replied the gaoler; "walk in, and sit down in the parlour for a little while, till I can send a man with you."
The fugitive was, indeed, no other than the Marquis de Saint-Maixent, accused of all the enormous crimes detailed by the provost, who by his audacious flight opened for himself an active part in the strange story which it remains to relate. It came to pass, a fortnight after these events, that a mounted gentleman rang at the wicket gate of the chateau de Saint-Geran, at the gates of Moulins.
He then passed through the wicket with Bouchier, and proceeding to the Garter, they mounted their steeds, and galloped off towards Datchet, and thence to Staines and Hampton Court. Of the Grand Procession to Windsor Castle Of the Meeting of King Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn at the Lower Gate-Of their Entrance into the Castle And how the Butcher was Hanged from the Curfew Tower.
A step or two higher up the stair showed light and a door, and an iron-grated wicket led him out upon a gallery cut in the open face of the rock, extending a space of about six or eight yards, until he reached a second door, where the path re-entered the rock, and which was also defended by an iron portcullis.
Ronan's mill office any morning about nine-thirty. Up to date Mac Tavish had not thrown any paper-weights through the wicket, though he had been collecting ammunition in that line against the day when nothing else could express his emotions.
Come ye to me here within to mine uncle and my brother, they shall counsel us well when they hear our tale so shall we be more at ease." With that he undid the wicket. 'Twould have done any heart good, who understood their speech, to see how Sir Agloval and Morien embraced and kissed each other.
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