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Mr Brass rejoined that it would have been well for the prisoner if he had thought of that, before, and was about to make some other gloomy observations when the voice of the single gentleman was heard, demanding from above-stairs what was the matter, and what was the cause of all that noise and hurry.
The Parisian's eyes followed him, and they blazed with suppressed wrath. Never in all his life had he exercised such self-control as he was exercising then which was the reason why he had failed to achieve greatness and he was exercising it for the sake of that child above-stairs, and because he kept ever-present in his mind the thought that she must come to grievous harm if ill befell himself.
At last he rose and with uncertain steps sought his own suite, above-stairs. Billionaire and world-master though he was, that night he knew his heart lay dead within him. He realized that all the fruits of life were Dead Sea fruits, withered to dust and ashes on his pale and quivering lips. He was aroused from this bitter revery by a rapping at the door. Opening, he admitted Slawson, his valet.
When he had me safe above-stairs, he barred the door upon me, set a sentry pacing back and forth in the corridor without, and another to keep an eye upon the window from below, and so left me. There was no great need for either sentry, or for bolts and bars.
So long as Valentin slept, or seemed to sleep, of course Newman could not approach him; so our hero withdrew for the present, committing himself to the care of the half-waked bonne. She took him to a room above-stairs, and introduced him to a bed on which a magnified bolster, in yellow calico, figured as a counterpane.
A responsive cheer outside showed how readily those outside had caught at even this gleam of hope. Also how implicitly they trusted in the mere name of a gentleman who all over the country was known for "his word being as good as his bond," John Halifax. The banker breathed freer; but his respite was short: an imperative message came from the gentlemen above-stairs, desiring his presence.
The lady sees nobody; nor are the best apartments above-stairs to be viewed, till she is either absent, or gone into the country; which she talks of doing in a fortnight, or three weeks, at farthest, and to live there retired. What Mr. The offices are also very convenient; coach-house and stables at hand.
But above-stairs it was different. One day, for instance, after breakfast, the king went into his counting-house, and counted out his money. The operation gave him no pleasure. "To think," said he to himself, "that every one of these gold sovereigns weighs a quarter of an ounce, and my real, live, flesh-and-blood princess weighs nothing at all!"
She above-stairs in the sick-room, and he in the fresh garden hastening out to his work, were both thinking in their hearts how perverse life was, and how hard it was not to be happy as indeed they well might in a general way; though perhaps one glance of the Curate's eyes upward, one meeting of looks, might have resulted quite reasonably in a more felicitous train of thinking, at least for that day.
The fat butler went puffing upstairs, and they followed, on each side of me. "Go for a doctor, quick," said one of them to the gardener, who was coming behind a Frenchman who prayed to a saint as he saw my blood. They led me across a great green rug in a large hall above-stairs to a chamber of which I saw little then save its size and the wealth of its appointments.
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