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He nodded wildly to Mervyn, brushing away the snow, beckoning towards the back-door, as he supported himself on one knee on the window-stone, and, with his lips close to the glass, cried, 'let me in; but, in the uproar of the storm, it was by his gestures, imperfectly as they were seen, rather than by his words, that Mervyn comprehended his meaning. Down went Mr.
He would miss his troublesome little man, when the sun shone out that he used to welcome when the birds hopped on the window-stone, to find the crumbs that little man used to strew there; and when his own little canary 'Birdie' he used to call him would sing and twitter in his cage and the time came to walk out on his lonely visits.
The walls were crumbling, and weeds and moss were growing in every crevice. It had the look of a prison, rather than a dwelling-house. In one angle, however, he remarked a window which seemed an exception to the surrounding squalidness. There was a curtain drawn within it, and flowers standing on the window-stone.
It sounded over that portion of the roof which was farthest from the door, toward which I now glided; and as I took my stand under cover of the projecting angle of a clumsy old press that stood close by it, I perceived the room a little darkened, and I saw a man descend and take his stand upon the window-stone.
The window of the cedar-room, up two pair of stairs, was open; and in the shadow a darker outline was visible of a man, with his elbows on the window-stone, looking down upon them. "Look at his eyes like two live coals!" gasped Tom. The landlord could not see all this so sharply, being confused, and not so long-sighted as Tom.
No more nor that old deaf gammon there that costs me three tizzies a week, and haint worth a h'porth no more nor Meg there, that's making all she can o' them pains. They be all a foolin' o' me, an' thinks I don't know't. Hey? we'll see. All this time he was cutting a bit of tobacco into shreds on the window-stone.
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