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In a few minutes the articles were in my hands, and passing out, there were the American priests in the ante-room, the next callers to enter the General's apartment. Their business was to urge him to permit the Catholic priests held as prisoners by the insurgents more than 100, perhaps nearly 200 in number to go home.
I shall not have the last miserable consolation of kissing the cold lips of my dear, dear Fergus! The unfortunate Flora here, after one or two hysterical sobs, fainted in her chair. The lady, who had been attending in the ante-room, now entered hastily, and begged Edward to leave the room, but not the house.
It's fully understood, is it not? I alone am to know everything; and you will communicate with me here direct, by the telephone, if any serious incident should arise." The Chief of the Detective Police had scarcely gone off, by way of an adjoining salon, when the usher reopened the door communicating with the ante-room: "Monsieur le President du Conseil."
Nevertheless, he ordered that the official should be kept waiting, in order to show his friend, a man who had not been in the service for a long time, but had lived at home in the country, how long officials had to wait in his ante-room.
He showed them great deference, said the others were waiting for them, and conducted them through an ante-room and a passage almost as dark as the stairway itself, to a large room, full of people, and dimly lighted by four candles and two old oil lamps. The young man apologised for the darkness, saying his parents would tolerate neither the electric light, nor gas, nor petroleum.
Next moment, stooping with an incredible, savage swiftness, he snatched it up and pressed it to his face with both hands. Something, extreme astonishment perhaps, dimmed my eyes, so that he seemed to vanish before he moved. The slamming of the outer door restored my sight, and I went on contemplating the empty chair in the empty ante-room.
It was a dull, cold day, what is called "a black frost;" not a bright, clear, pretty, cold day, but the sort of frost that really makes the world seem dead makes it almost impossible to believe that there will ever be warmth and sound and "growing-ness" again. Late in the afternoon Griselda crept up to the ante-room, and sat down by the window.
I see nothing attractive in them." For now, as then, she knew that he had lied. Domini came into the ante-room alone. The three men had paused for a moment behind her, and the sound of a match struck reached her ears as she went listlessly forward to the door which was open to the broad garden path, and stood looking out into the sunshine.
But the good-natured servant went to the huntsmen and told them all about this fresh plot. Then, as soon as the King's daughter was alone with her maidens, she exclaimed: 'Now, pray make a great effort and don't even look at those spinning-wheels. When the King sent for his twelve huntsmen next morning they walked through the ante-room without even casting a glance at the spinning-wheels.
What head of a family ever sends for any of its members into the dining-room if his intentions are honourable? When he reached it he found it empty his father having been called away for a few minutes unexpectedly upon some parish business and he was left in the same kind of suspense as people are in after they have been ushered into their dentist's ante-room.
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