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"Hound!" interrupted the prince, stamping his foot, "thinkest thou to banter me, see!" As his foot shook the floor, the door opened, and a man with his arms bare, covered from head to foot in a black gown of serge, with his features concealed by a hideous mask, stood ominously at the aperture. "Dost thou repent thy contumacy? A moment, and I render my questioning to another!"
As he stared at it, considering whether his thirst justified him in waking her up for, if she were asleep, he felt pretty sure she would wake however softly he crept into her room he saw that the door was partly open. Perhaps his mother had found the heat too great, and had tried to create a draught by opening her door. There was darkness in the aperture. She wasn't reading, then.
He had heard, as he thought, the sound of footsteps in the dormitory, and having applied his eye to a convenient aperture had had a good view of the abbot as he stood by the door listening. He was thus fully aware that the abbot might have detected the presence of a woman in the cell.
"We have no time to waste in idle talk, my lord," said Stephano, who now appeared at the aperture. "Pardon my roughness, noble lady but every moment is precious. Is there any danger of an alarm being given?" "None that I am aware of," returned the countess. "The place where we now are must be a hundred yards below the surface of the earth "
Just as I was on the point of abandoning my fears as idle and childish, I cast my eyes through an aperture between the logs; and saw the dusky forms of several Indians moving about the yard. I sprang to the bedside and awoke Ralph, and in a few moments more, Roe, Ralph and myself, stood with ready guns, waiting for a chance to shoot.
It is covered with an iron grating, in which there is an aperture for small vessels to be let down into it, which when full are drawn up, and the water thus drawn is highly prized. As from day to day a large quantity of flowers are thrown into it, it may be supposed how horrible its water and how offensive its smell; it is a wonder the people are not poisoned by it.
The northern half of Mnaidra is clearly a later addition. There is no doubt as to the way in which the areas were roofed. In the apse-like ends of the elliptical rooms the horizontal courses are corbelled, i.e. each course projects slightly forward over the last. Thus the space narrows as the walls rise, until the aperture is small enough to be roofed by great slabs laid across.
In cutting the wood to the required size it should not, as in the instance of the aperture, be made with perfectly upright sides, but the parts that are to go into the aperture should be a fraction less than the outer, so as to allow of its being pressed in and fitting very closely all round.
Between the wheels and the wall where the hole lay there was barely room for my body yet I was desperate, and determined to persevere. I called Pompey to my side. "You perceive that aperture, Pompey. I wish to look through it. You will stand here just beneath the hole so. Now, hold out one of your hands, Pompey, and let me step upon it thus.
The southern gable or dormitory, was provided in the centre with one window of similar size and construction. The upper floor, a sort of granary and depot for the provisions of the family, was ascended by means of a ladder, and through a square aperture just large enough to admit with ease the body of a man.
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