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For a few minutes he sat on the staircase, but as at any moment some one might stumble over him, he went down to the backdoor, which was open, like that in front, and passed out into the stone-paved yard. Here he seated himself on the ground, leaning against a corner of the wall, He was suffering much from his injury, but could at all events feel secure from the hunters.
"'Twas a bad night's work that, Cousin Fanny, and maybe I wish it undone, and maybe I don't; but a devil gets into the heart of a man when he has to fly from the lass he loves, while the friends of his youth go hunting him with muskets, and he has to steal out of the backdoor of his own country and shelter himself, like a cold sparrow, up in the eaves of the world.
When governmental suspicions were thoroughly lulled, he arranged with a singing-girl to let him out by the backdoor of her house at dawn from whence he escaped to the railway-station, rapidly reaching Tientsin entirely unobserved. The morning was well-advanced before the detectives who nightly watched his movements became suspicious.
Surely, he has solved some of the problems of life. He comes in at his backdoor, holding a log fresh cut for the hearth upon his shoulder with one hand, while he greets the newly arrived traveller with the other. Here at length we have free range, as not in palaces, nor cottages, nor temples, and intrude nowhere.
While the old man slept and strangely like in face he was to the old man who had shown me first the little, old backdoor I went to the far end of his wattled shop. There was a door of a sort on leather hinges. I pushed it open and there I was again under the notice-board at the back of the shop, at least the back of Go-by Street had not changed.
She would have escaped an interview, had escape been possible. There was, however, no backdoor to the cottage, and in an instant the boy had lifted the latch to Mrs. Lodge's gentle knock. 'I see I have come to the right house, said she, glancing at the lad, and smiling. 'But I was not sure till you opened the door.
A bell pealed in the servants' hall, stopped, and began ringing again in short and violent jerks. "Let me go," commanded Dorothea. "They will never find him, under the slope there. He may be bleeding to death. I must tell " But Polly clung to her. "They'll find him safe enough, Miss Dorothea. There's Sam, now hark! at the backdoor bell: he'll tell them." "Sam!" "Sam Zeally, Miss."
If ye think I'm croodin' the gentlemen, I'll gang oot an' sit on the steps o' yer backdoor, but, guidness only kens! there seems room enough in these empty pews for a dizzen o' ma size." "Here, conductor, I'll pay the man's fare," said Mr. Sherwood, who had listened to the conversation with ill-concealed amusement.
There was a little grass-plot, large enough for a basket-chair and a rug. There was a hedge of Penzance sweet-brier opposite the backdoor and the window at which Langholm wrote, and yet this hedge broke down in the very nick and place to give the lucky writer a long glimpse across a green valley, with dim woods upon the opposite hill.
When she saw my condition, she cried, "Here be no devil, but in your en fool's head. Here be a poor miserable wretch bleeding to death, and if a dies, we must be at the charge of burying him; therefore, Dick, go vetch the old wheelbarrow and put en in, and carry en to goodman Hodge's backdoor; he is more able than we to pay out money upon poor vagrants."
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