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Updated: June 11, 2025
In the days long ago, when your mother and he and I spent happy times together, he played his violin better than any other amateur that I happen to know." "There is an old violin in one of the attics," said Verena. "We have never touched it. It is in a case all covered with dust." "His Stradivarius," murmured Miss Tredgold. "Oh dear! How are the mighty fallen!
"Yes, yes," answered Dick as he dismounted and threw the reins of his horse to David. "They are like the rest of Dunwich asleep." So they entered and began to search the house by the dim light of the moon. First they searched the lower chambers, then those where Hugh's father and his brothers had slept, and lastly the attics.
'I'm in the attics, worse luck to me, said the street player. 'Come into my room, if you don't mind. He opened the door and went upstairs in the darkness, with the assured step of custom. Christopher, less used to the house, blundered slowly upwards after him. 'Wait a minute, said the occupant of the attic, 'and I'll get a light.
Some fine mansions here and there made magnificent outlines against the picturesque attics of the left bank. The house of Nevers, the house of Rome, the house of Reims, which have disappeared; the Hotel de Cluny, which still exists, for the consolation of the artist, and whose tower was so stupidly deprived of its crown a few years ago.
One story in height, with immense attics, it was built at the beginning of this century, of amazingly thick beams of pine, such beams came in plenty in those days from the Zhizdrinsky pine-forests; they have passed out of memory now!
For a moment Tommy hesitated. There was the sound of some one stirring on the floor below. Then the German's voice came up the stairs. "Gott im Himmel! Conrad, what is it?" Tommy felt a small hand thrust into his. Beside him stood Annette. She pointed up a rickety ladder that apparently led to some attics. "Quick up here!" She dragged him after her up the ladder.
And when was that?" asked Lydia. "I suppose it was then as she dropped the purse, and it got swept away in all the confusion that followed," continued Jane, now placing herself in front of Lydia, and gazing at her. Lydia was helping herself to another mutton-chop, and began to feel a little uncomfortable. "When was Mrs. Bell last in the attics?" she said. "I was with her," continued Jane.
Many more are the names that might be mentioned, for the street has ever been a magnet, and even those who toil in the attics of Bohemia find their way here, in the hours of leisure, to see and to be observed.
He did not expect to find Haddo till they came to the lighted attics, but it seemed needful nevertheless to pass right through the house on their way. A flash of his torch had shown him that the walls of the hall were decorated with all manner of armour, ancient swords of Eastern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, savage implements of medieval warfare; and an idea came to him.
There was just a shadowy hope that Aunt Lydia might go downstairs for something, that five minutes might be given her to snatch her treasure away. Lydia Purcell, however, a thoroughly clever woman, was going through her work with method and expedition. She had no idea of leaving the attics until she had taken a complete and exhaustive list of what they contained.
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