abruptly-yielding

Updated: May 10, 2025

Mr Pickering experienced the discomfiting emotions of the man who pushes violently against an abruptly-yielding door, or treads heavily on the top stair where there is no top stair. He was shaken, and the clamlike stolidity which he had assumed as protection gave way. Night had descended upon Brookport. Eustace, the monkey, was in his little bed; Lord Wetherby in the smoking-room.

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