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Keith did not know that this change in bearing was due to the pleasure expressed above-stairs by a certain young lady who had flatly refused to accept her mother's suggestion that they send word they were not at home. Alice Yorke was not in a very contented frame of mind that day.
There was an empty room above-stairs at the wooden Midshipman's, which, in days of yore, had been Walter's bedroom. Walter, rousing up the Captain betimes in the morning, proposed that they should carry thither such furniture out of the little parlour as would grace it best, so that Florence might take possession of it when she rose.
The spy looked at him with a moody eye, plucking thoughtfully at his lip with thumb and forefinger. Then he brightened suddenly. "There's your man," said he, flashing a quick eye upon Leduc, who looked up with a quiet smile. "True," said Mr. Caryll, "and there's my portmantle above-stairs, and my saddle on my horse in the stables.
The great house was silent. How vain and empty and pitiful it all seemed as I wandered alone through the gorgeous apartments! What a mockery it all was of the tragedy impending above-stairs the approach on list-shod feet of the great enemy! Let us not be unjust. He would have come just the same if his prey had lain in a farmhouse among the hills, or in a tenement-house in C Street.
Here the girl was left alone for a few minutes, while Lanyard darted above-stairs for a review of the state bedchambers and servants' quarters. With a sensation of being crushed and suffocated by the encompassing dark mystery, she nerved herself against a protracted vigil.
But she fills me with impatience, poor empty-headed linnet, with her laughter, and I turn my back upon her to continue my journey. Above-stairs, Chrysantheme sleeps, stretched out on the floor; the house is wide open, and the soft mountain breeze rustles gently through it.
In a bed-room above-stairs I found three women with servants' caps, and a footman, arranged in a strange symmetrical way, head to head, like rays of a star. As I stood looking at them, I could have sworn, my good God, that I heard someone coming up the stairs.
Offord passed away like any inferior person was relegated to eternal stillness after the manner of a butler above-stairs? His aspect on the event for the several successive days may be imagined, and the multiplication by funereal observance of the things he didn't say. When everything was over it was late the same day I knocked at the door of the house of mourning as I so often had done before.
Is not that word a very comprehensive one? The lady above-stairs is indeed magnificent; but, Miriam, where is Bertie?" and he laughed. "Ah! I understand; you find her artificial." "She is too fine an actress for that, Miriam; only transfigured." "Bertie is wholly changed. Whom does she resemble, Wardour? What queen, bethink you, whose likeness you have seen? Not Mary Queen of Scots not Elizabeth "
"A gentleman, I hope," said Mr. Caryll urbanely. "What are you?" "I'll learn you," said his lordship, and plucked at his sword. "I see," said Mr. Caryll in the same quiet voice that thinly veiled his inward laughter "a bully!" With more oaths, my lord heaved himself forward. Mr. Caryll was without weapons. He had left his sword above-stairs, not deeming that he would be needing it at a wedding.
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