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Over the house itself, he exercised the same imaginary power as over its inhabitants and their affairs. He had never been in it, the length of a piece of fat black water-pipe which trailed itself over the area-door into a damp stone passage, and had rather the air of a leech on the house that had 'taken' wonderfully; but this was no impediment to his arranging it according to a plan of his own.
The hall-door shut heavily as Tait and the women in the kitchen sat and listened. They had not spoken since the crash of the falling chair in the room overhead. The area-door was open to the hot, sickly night air of London in midsummer. Tait slid noiselessly out and listened as his master hailed a passing hansom and jumped lightly in.
"They'll be for parting you and me, my dear," said the poor creature one day, when society had proved more than usually cruel. "If ever I am let see you after your marriage, I suppose I shall have to creep in at the area-door, and make believe I am some faithful old nurse wanting to have a look at my dear child's sweet face."
Going out of the area-door with a cigar in his mouth, he mounted the steps hastily to keep an appointment round the corner the keeping of which as a private gentleman necessitated the change of the greater part of his clothes twice within a quarter of an hour the limit of his time of absence.
The amazing difference which this made in the sentiments of Mrs. Phoebe Beecham, née Tozer, it is quite impossible to describe. Her sudden introduction to "circles" which Mrs. Pigeon had never entered, and to houses at the area-door of which Mr.
No one came, and he appeared to be considering whether to ring again or go away, when Lionel skipped nimbly from his chair by the drawing-room window, slipped noiselessly down the basement stairs, and opened the area-door just in time to prevent the beggar from taking his departure. "What do you want, sir?" inquired Lionel, politely, through the tall iron gate.
And then Albert arrived with the revolver and the handcuffs. He had been supernaturally quick. They descended and crossed the road. 'You understand, Hugo instructed them. 'Let us have no mistake about getting in. Immediately the door is opened, in we all go. We can talk inside. 'Supposing Albert and me went down to the area-door, Simon ventured, 'instead of the front-door.
Cripps! when the manservant in plain clothes said, "Step this way, upstairs please" W. Keyse and wife having applied at the area-door "and Dr. Saxham will see you," the name, not having been mentioned in the advertisement, which gave only the address and an initial, imparted to both an electrical shock of surprise.
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